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Documentary
The voice of freedom
IRAN: Indian filmmaker Sreemoyee Singh celebrates Iran's cinema and poetry while shedding light on daily life and the fight for freedom.
interview
INTERVIEW: Elisabeth Hoff, WHO's representative in Libya today, wondered why Norway got involved and dropped 700 bombs on the country in 2011: «It makes no sense at all.» For 30 years, Hoff has tried to save lives in war zones such as Afghanistan, Syria and Libya. How can a human endure so much suffering?
«I don’t think a single military conflict can solve a problem»
Books
A lingering life beyond rationality
PHILOSOPHY: Giorgio Agamben makes a loose juxtaposition between Goethe and Hölderlin, between madness and reason. Did the latter allow himself to be pushed to the psychological limit?
Books
Muslim elites, exercise of power, and terror
AFRICA: What can a book say about Boko Haram or the porous border between present-day Cameroon and present-day Chad? Or about the pre-colonial Kingdom of Kanem-Bornu?
Documentary
Weird scenes inside the streets and favelas of a South American city
ART: A dreamlike celebration of street art and protest in the heart of Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s 6th largest city.
Books
Which African intellectuals…
AFRICA: Inspired by both Bakhtin and Foucault, Stephen Chan presents Achille Mbembe's analysis of the African state in an understandable way. But let's also mention what the book leaves out.
Books
There’s more than one feminism
DOK.REVUE: A reflection on women documentarians inspired by Barbora Baronová’s book Women on Women.
Books
Conversations behind the movie camera
CINEMA: Through long-form conversations, Pamela Cohn offers a global collection of discussions on film and video as an essential medium for conveying the world's most urgent concerns.
