Ninah’s Dowery
Whew! Watching Ninah’s Dowery (2012), a movie from a small Camaroon film crew, directed by the sure-handed Victor Viyuoh I was carried into the …
Whew! Watching Ninah’s Dowery (2012), a movie from a small Camaroon film crew, directed by the sure-handed Victor Viyuoh I was carried into the …
Mediterranea at the Mill Valley Film Festival couldn’t come at a better time. Though several years in the making, and …
The find of an extraordinary number of early hominid bones and subsequent naming of a new species — —homo naledi …
Since my wife returned from a two week visit to Morocco we’ve been combing old movies for scenes shot in …
Though war and armed assaults in Mali have been much in the news lately good things continue to happen. Here, …
A returning ex-pat, an espionage mission, a mysterious Islamist counter-intelligence figure locked away in Djibouti’s Devil’s Islands, a palimpsest of letters …
Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it– around the world. It is absolutely …
Ahadaf Soueif, is a Cairo born, Egypt and U.K educated, writer, predominantly of fiction. She got major attention with her …
Giving birth in a Muslim hospital where a sign in English reads, ‘Under no circumstance you must be alone with …
The ascension of Saddam Hussein to the peak of Iraqi power began in 1958 when a coup led by Brigadier …
I’ve been trying to keep my focus on fiction and film from the North African/Middle Eastern countries where the 2011 …
Last week at the Human Rights Watch dinner in Santa Barbara a band of African musicians brought together by the …