Genre-defying exploration of a Jewish family in Soviet Russia
Tag Archives: conflict
Servant of the People (Ukrainian TV show)
I watched Zelenskiy’s “Servant of the People”, and I’m glad I did
Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother’s Letter to her Son by Homeira Qaderi (Afghanistan)
A gripping memoir on growing up as a teenage girl under Taliban rule
Review of Flee: Oscar-nominated, Danish film
Moving Danish animated documentary about the experience of an Afghan man finding asylum in the West
Massoud Hassani – Afghanistani Artist
An aesthetically appealing design with a practical purpose
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)
Harrowing masterpiece, recording the wartime memories of those who grew up during the Second World War in Belarus
At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop: Review no 151
Disturbing and powerful International Man Booker-shortlisted novel
Review no 141: A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam (Bangladesh)
FAR EAST, SOUTH ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA First published in 2007, Tahmima Anam’s intimate civil war tale A Golden Age won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Best First Book and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. The edition I read was published in 2012 as part of the Canongate ‘the Canons‘ list, which …
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Review no 132: Ali and Nino by Kurban Said (Azerbaijan)
Epic war romance set in war-torn Baku
Review no 110: film A Screaming Man (Chad)
NORTH AFRICA (In French and Arabic with English subtitles) This October, during Black History Month in the UK, Africa in Motion (Scotland), Afrika Eye (Bristol), the Cambridge African Film Festival (CAFF), Film Africa (London) and Watch-Africa Cymru (Wales) have all come together to provide an opportunity to watch some of the best African films of the past …
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