Archive for August, 2014
• 1,August 30, 2014 •
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Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: Arab women, Arabic literature, Egyptian author, fiction, literature, novel, Salwa Bakr, social classes, social inequalities, women writers
• 1,August 15, 2014 •
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Posted in Miscellaneous
Tags: beach reads, beaches, books, destination, fiction, literature, Miami, novel, summer books
• 1,August 15, 2014 •
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Posted in Art
Tags: African artists, American Beauty, entertainment, Frida, Hollywood films, Hollywood movies, Senegal, Senegalese artists, sociological experiment, The Matrix
• 1,August 15, 2014 •
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Posted in Review
Tags: books, Enlightenment, Every Day Is for the Thief, excile, fiction, intellectuals, Lagos, literature, marginality, New York City. Brussels, novelist, Open City, post-9/11 world, postcolonial identity, review, sharia law, Teju Cole, traveller, West Africa, West African
• 1,August 10, 2014 •
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Posted in At the Movies
Tags: entertainment, film, Frank Miller, graphic novels, Jessica Alba, neo-noir universe, Rosario Dawson, Sin City, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, vengeance, vigilante justice
• 1,August 10, 2014 •
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Posted in Good read!
Tags: Bailey’s Women’s Prize, books, Donna Tartt, female author, fiction, Harper Lee, Harry Potter, Jane Eyre, JK Rowling, life-changing novels, literature, Little Women and I Capture the Castle, Margaret Atwood, novel, Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca, The handmaid''s Tale, The Secret History, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wuthering Heights
• 1,August 10, 2014 •
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Posted in Miscellaneous
Tags: Africans, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, British Museum, Colonial North America, Middle Passage, Senegal, slave ship, slave trade, William Hoare
• 1,August 10, 2014 •
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Posted in Art
Tags: Aesha Ash, American Ballet Theater, Asian dancers, ballet companies, ballet icons, black dancers, Carlos Acosta, Cassa Pancho, Chehon Wespi-Tschopp, Chi Cao, classical ballet, Desmond Richardson, diversity, diversity problem, Evelyn Cisneros, José Manuel Carreño, Kayla Rowser, lily-white reputation, Michaela DePrince, Misty Copeland, Natalia Osipova, race, Shannon Harkins, Shiori Kase, Sylvie Guillem, Wendy Whelan, Yuan Yuan Tan
• 1,August 8, 2014 •
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Posted in At the Movies
Tags: BBC drama, conflicts, Gaza, Israel, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Middle East conflict, multinational, Palestine, philanthropy, political, psychological, Stein Group, The Honorable Woman, thriller
• 1,August 8, 2014 •
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Posted in At the Movies
Tags: Alejandro Jodorowsky, American novelist, Chilean filmmaker, documentary, fictional society, Frank Herbert, iction novel. Dune, Jodorowsky’s Dune, Star Wars, warring planets
• 1,August 8, 2014 •
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Posted in At the Movies
Tags: Diana Gabaldon, fiction, film, Game of thrones, Jacobite Rebellion, novel, Outlander, Outlander novels, romantic adventure, Scottish politics, TV adaptation, tv series