Analysing Franz Kafka's The Trial, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer, and Ernest Hemingway's debut story collection In Our Time
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Against the backdrop of the Second World…
Failing Oversight: Iraq’s Unchecked Government
International Crisis Group
Middle East Report N°113, 26 September 2011
Since 2008, the Iraqi state has appeared strengthened by the relatively…
[inset_right]State vs. Defense: The Battle to Define America’s Empire
Stephen Glain
Crown Trade 2011[/inset_right]Stephen Glain is an American veteran, not of wars or military incursions, but of more…
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The 32-year-old wears her scarf loosely, a style more familiar in Iran or the Gulf than Yemen…
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Rachid Koraichi whose work has been described as “writing passion”…
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In the midst of all this election business in Tunisia, though riveting, I…
Production year: 2010
Country: Rest of the world
Runtime: 138 mins
Directors: Rachid Bouchareb
Cast: Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sabrina Seyvecou, Sami Bouajila
Suffering from a tendency to…
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Although still relatively small as a center for art,…
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The scene was a relatively unremarkable one. But what happens next is…
Israel's commandeering of aid distribution in Gaza forces starving Palestinians to run the gauntlet at centres with biometric monitoring systems, armed security, and life-or-death hazards