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30 Jun 2007

Review: Nir Rosen's "In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq"

I found the book analytically shallow, skimming the public surface of the society without penetrating into the substance beneath it. He overwhelms the reader with details of his experience in Iraq, but these details are only compensation for his inability to actually explain much about the things he is describing.

Tags: Islam and Islamists (Political Islam) . Resistance and Violence

12 May 2007

Review: "Private" (Film)

Easily the best film I have seen on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Private expresses the intense antagonisms of the political conflict through an extremely particular interaction between a Palestinian family and an Israeli military unit. There are few heroes, and their moments of redemption are not grand but small, reluctant, even accidental.

Tags: Occupation and Control . Resistance and Violence