Nicholas Blincoe is an author and screenwriter living between London and the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. He writes regularly for the <em>Guardian</em> and the <em>Telegraph</em>.

The Dictator of Laughs

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Once Upon a Lost Time in Turkey

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Cinema After 9/11

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The Writer's Block

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