Middle Eastern Female Filmmakers Give Glimpse of Once-Veiled Worlds: In the Middle East, women have a new voice: the movies. As nascent film industries bloom in the region, a few emerging women directors are probing some of the most delicate subjects within their male-dominated communities, giving viewers a glimpse into once-veiled worlds. [AlterNet]
Amis and Islam: “I’m a passionate multiracialist and a very poor multiculturalist,” Martin Amis said a few weeks ago. He was on the phone from London, praising his hometown’s ethnic variety — “It’s exhilarating and moving to live in a city with so many races and so many colors” — and denouncing its fissures, particularly over radical Islam. [NYT]
Islamophobic Gibberish Taints U.S. Media Discourse on Middle East: He’ll chase them to the “gates of hell,” he thunders. And the happy crowd roars approval — not quite sure who the radical Islamic militants are, or why the combined powers of the world’s mightiest democracies and allied Third World tyrannies have not even chased the rascals out of the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, or suburban London, let alone to hell itself. [AlterNet]
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