- Blogs, Bleader, May 21, 2013
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"This is not a Holocaust story, this is a war story": The life of Hannah Senesh
Hannah Senesh wasn't a Holocaust heroine, she was a World War II heroine.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 3, 2013
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Straight outta the Middle East: Reflecting on personal experiences with Israeli and Palestinian hip-hop
Thoughts surrounding DAM, the first Palestinian rap group, who performs in Chicago on Friday.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 17, 2012
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A Fajr-5 rocket—what's that?
A Wired article gives some insight into how technology's role in the Israel-Hamas conflict
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 16, 2012
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Propaganda hits social media like a mortar shell
How Jennifer Egan's New Yorker story presaged the insidious Gaza PR war being waged over social media
- Movies, Movie Sidebar, Apr 18, 2012
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A two-screen solution
Chicago Palestine Film Festival opens at Gene Siskel Film Center
- Galleries & Museums, Art Critic's Choice, Mar 13, 2012
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Border town
Photographer Yto Barrada's one-woman show documents uneasy Tangier
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 13, 2009
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Veiled Voices
Brigid Maher's documentary "Veiled Voices," premiering 9/13 on Link TV, follows three women leaders in the Middle East.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 23, 2009
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"My only weapon...is that I won't leave this place"
Imprisoned by Egyptian security forces last February for protesting the Israeli siege on Gaza, student activist Philip Rizk explores nonviolent resistance in his documentary "This Palestinian Life," screening tonight at Wellington United Church of Christ.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 18, 2007
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Plains speaking
Jimmy Carter, the subject of a new documentary by Jonathan Demme, gives 'em H-E double toothpicks at the Toronto film festival.
