Crescono le mobilitazioni per il boicottaggio di Andrea Bocelli in Giordania e non solo, per la ferrea complicità con Israele del cantante.
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In Pakistan come in Italia. Intervista alla regista Seemab Gul sul film Ghost School, che racconta il fenomeno della dispersione scolastica.
La kermesse di Pordenonelegge mette in programma una sfilza di autori e titoli che esaltano Israele, mentre i palestinesi sono assenti.
“Woman Unknown” di May el-Toukhy è un coraggioso racconto sulla guerra dal punto di vista femminile, scomodo e anti-assolutorio.
Il film NAZA di Yuval Abraham e Rachel Szor in concorso a Venezia 83 mostra la finalità terroristica costitutiva dell’esercito israeliano.
Bunker di Florian Zeller forse non è il film più bello in concorso a Venezia 83: ma è di certo il più spiazzante e interessante.
Il regista Kassem Istanbouli ha aperto le porte del cinema Colisée di Beirut, trasformandolo in rifugio e cura dai traumi grazie all’arte.
Orwell discute del concetto di “letteratura proletaria” in una trasmissione alla BBC nel 1940, insieme con Desmond Hawkins.
The premiere of Àlex Ollé's The Persians at the Greek Theatre of Syracuse on 13 June was a great act of repoliticising art.
In this 1946 article for Tribune, Orwell ironically explores the impossible job of the book reviewer in the post-war publishing world.
Marjane Satrapi has presented a perspective that has never claimed to be universal, but rather one that seeks to break free from all imposed narratives.
An essay by Orwell critiquing Gandhi, written in 1949, once again brings major contemporary issues to the fore.
Erri De Luca vs Sally Rooney and Venice4Palestine: cultural boycotts are a political choice against the normalisation of barbarism.
An excerpt from the book “Diary of a Young Doctor. Notes from a Genocide in Gaza”, (Mimesis) by Palestinian doctor Ezzideen Shehab.
Asmae Dachan interviews Syrian journalist Shady Hamadi on the need for new journalism to observe the world and its changes.
On the occasion of the Turin Book Fair, Asmae Dachan interviews Gassid Mohammad, an Iraqi academic, writer, poet, and translator.
Asmae Dachan interviews journalist Leila Belhadj Mohamed on the need to break the Eurocentric perspective in journalism.
Asmae Dachan interviews Igiaba Scego, a Somali-Italian writer and scholar of coloniality.
In *Tribune*, on 14 December 1945, George Orwell published an article that would go on to…
On 15 April 2011, Vittorio Arrigoni was found murdered. We remember him with a letter from “Caro Vik ti scrivo” by Anna Maria Selini.
Orwell reflects on post-war justice and sees collective blame as a moralistic loophole that paves the way for new crimes.
Orwell’s first book, *Down and Out in Paris and London*, is a personal account of life in the two cities during the 1930s.
In a literary reflection that ranges from Dickens to Swift, Huxley and Orwell, he examines the relationship between socialists and utopia and happiness.
In chapter 3 of “Animal Farm”, Orwell recounts the division of labour among the animals and the beginning of differentiation.
In 1944, in an article for Tribune, George Orwell used Ezra Pound as an example to reflect on the connection between work and artist.
Almost all of Gaza's library collection has been destroyed, but many people have gone to great lengths over the years to protect the books.
Orwell analyses Koestler's work with a critical, unsparing eye, the latter's career being riddled with significant contradictions.
Here is the full Italian translation of the Berlinale award speech by Palestinian-Syrian director Abdallah Al-Khatib.
“The point is that the relative freedom we enjoy depends on public opinion. The law does not guarantee protection.”
In this second part of Notes on Nationalism, Orwell reflects on how the British intelligentsia interprets numerous forms of it and its vices.