Lebanon
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INTERVIEW: A Day in Aleppo
How desperate it must seem, trying – like film directors frequently do – to spur the world into action to end the war in Syria. We have caught up with one of the people who are fighting this battle.
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DEFIANCE IS PRESENT
Özge Calafato looks at some of the most compelling recent documentary works from the Arab World.
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SHEFFIElD Doc/FEST 2011: A good and faithful Muslim
Making and exhibiting independent documentary in the Arab world is a challenge in several distinct ways. Pamela Cohn writes about two outstanding films from the Sheffield festival. Are they calling for a more humanist, modern approach to being a faithful Muslim?
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Testimonies from Venice
Venice: The 66th Venice Film Festival was characterised by personal accounts of political events, but also by films that explore the political and moral commitment to a life of dignity, according to Truls Lie of *Le Monde diplomatique*, who was present at the Lido.
