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A Week in Art & Culture
(26/01/2006 -
02/02/2006)
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By The IOL Art & Culture Team
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Feb.
05, 2006
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The cover
photo of Hanif Kureishi's new book The Word and The Bomb
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Ultimate
Choice
02/02/2006
Waking
to find myself a touch genocidal, I would, I imagine, be uncertain how to
proceed. An unprovoked attack on my target group with whatever weapon came to
hand might take out a few of them, but also bring my venture to a premature
end…
Source:
London Review of Books
Exploring
the Many Meanings of Hadith
02/02/2006
A
South African industrialist stands on a beach to confront a vision of himself as
a young boy. A series of 16 photographs serve as the sole traces left behind by
a young photographer who disappears the night her apartment is consumed by
fire…
Source:
The Daily Star
French
Editor Fired Over Cartoons
02/02/2006
Jacques
Lefranc was dismissed by the owner of France Soir, as his paper became embroiled
in a developing row between Muslims and European press…
Source:
BBC News
China
Ban for Memoirs of a Geisha
02/02/2006
The
decision to cast Chinese actresses Ziyi Zhang and Gong Li in leading roles as
Japanese women has caused controversy in China…
Source:
BBC News
Arts
World Hails Hate Law Defeat
01/02/2006
Comedian
Rowan Atkinson said he was pleased the right to "criticise and
ridicule" religions was not banned…
Source:
BBC News
Urban
Islam – Between the Mobile Phone and the Koran
31/01/2006
From
January 25 until July2, an exhibition at the Culture Museum in Basel focuses on
clichés and conceptions of Muslim life. What form do Muslim lifestyles take in
Istanbul and Marrakesh?...
Source:
Swiss Info
New
Globe Award for Animated Film
31/01/2006
"Animated
features have become an important component of the studio line-up," said
Philip Berk of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association…
Source:
BBC News
Berlin
Film Festival Finalizes Lineup
31/01/2006
The
Berlin International Film Festival has completed its competition lineup, adding
premieres of new films from Sidney Lumet and Iran's Jafar Panahi to its
program…
Source:
CBS News
Something
about 'Nissa' min Turkiyya'
30/01/2006
"Nissa'
min Turkiyya" ("Women from Turkey") is an innocuous title for a
film. When director Olga Nakkash took the commission from al-Arabiyya's O3
Productions to make the documentary, it's not quite the title she had in mind…
Source:
The Daily Star
When
Bombs Speak Louder than Words
28/01/2006
Hanif
Kureishi looks decidedly glum. Sitting in his agent's office in London's
fashionable Notting Hill, his hands knotted with solemn purpose, he also looks
much older than his author
photo…
Source:
The Daily Star
Crime
Is OK, But Sex Isn't
27/01/2006
The
Los Angeles city attorney's office has sued the makers of Grand Theft Auto: San
Andreas for allegedly hiding pornographic material inside the video game,
officials said…
Source:
Wired News
"Rise
to the Occasion: Isabel Nolan"
27/01/2006
Four
is pleased to present, 'Rise to the occasion', an exhibition of new work by
Isabel Nolan. Nolan's works, which include drawings, paintings, sculpture and
animation,…
Source:
Absolute Arts
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