The Story of Stories: Why do We Tell Them? How Long Have We Told Them?
Not everyone can tell a gripping story but telling stories may be as integral to the evolution of Homo sapiens …
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Tigers on the Tenth Day — Fabled Syria
Zakaria Tamer (b 1931 in Damascus) has been in exile from his native Syria in England since the early 1980s where …
The Secrets — Desire and Emergence in Conservative Israel
Avi Nesher’s 2007 film, The Secrets, is full of them, though not only the secret forbidden love promised by the posters. Neither …
Khorma – The Foolish Crier, Tunisia
Stories of fools are likely as old as the telling of stories themselves, second only to those of powerful heroes …
The Toll Booth — Unsettled Desperation in Turkey
The Toll Booth (2014), more accurately, the” toll taker,” has a nice play on words in it, at least in …
Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War….
The civil war in Spain, 1936-1939, was the dark warning to the world of the war to follow, in almost every …