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Tag Archives: refugees

Book Review: My Friends by Hisham Matar (Libya)

A brilliant novel of exile and friendship

Posted byimogen15th Jul 202420th Jul 2024Posted inbookTags: books, coming of age, exile, fiction, Hisham Matar, Libya, refugees2 Comments on Book Review: My Friends by Hisham Matar (Libya)

Film Review: Le Havre (Finland)

A Utopian slice of small-town life from 2011 by Aki Kaurismäki

Posted byimogen15th Oct 202215th Oct 2022Posted infilmTags: Aki Kaurismaki, comedy, drama, Europe, european cinema, film, Finland, Finnish film, France, immigrant experience, migration, refugees2 Comments on Film Review: Le Havre (Finland)

Review of Flee: Oscar-nominated, Danish film

Moving Danish animated documentary about the experience of an Afghan man finding asylum in the West

Posted byimogen18th Feb 202218th Feb 2022Posted infilmTags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan month, animation, conflict, Danish film, documentary, documentary film, film, film review, Flee, LGBT, movie, refugees, reviewLeave a comment on Review of Flee: Oscar-nominated, Danish film

Film ‘Midnight Traveler’ by Hassan Fazili (Afghanistan)

moving and engaging documentary film about one family’s desperate struggle to flee Afghanistan

Posted byimogen6th Feb 2022Posted infilmTags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan month, documentary, film, migration, movie, North Africa Middle East and Central Asia, refugees4 Comments on Film ‘Midnight Traveler’ by Hassan Fazili (Afghanistan)

Alligator and other stories by Dima Alzayat (Syria)

A James Tait Black-shortlsted collection of Syrian-born writer Dima Alzayat

Posted byimogen19th Sep 20213rd Oct 2021Posted inbookTags: Alligator, books, Dima Aliyat, female writers, fiction, immigrant experience, James Tait, prize nominees, refugees, short stories, SyriaLeave a comment on Alligator and other stories by Dima Alzayat (Syria)

Review no 106: Film Midnight Traveler by Hassan Fazili (Afghanistan)

moving and engaging documentary film about one family’s desperate struggle to flee Afghanistan

Posted byimogen26th Sep 202030th Jan 2022Posted infilmTags: Afghanistan, documentary, film, migration, movie, North Africa Middle East and Central Asia, refugees1 Comment on Review no 106: Film Midnight Traveler by Hassan Fazili (Afghanistan)

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