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Hossam Bahgat
Hossam Bahgat is one of Egypt’s most prominent and effective human rights campaigners. He explains why things are getting worse in his country.
Cutting for Stone
An excellent first novel, teeming with memorable characters and dealing with momentous events; the sort of old-fashioned yarn in which the patient reader can become immersed.
Who owns the Arctic?
Could countries come to blows over the North's resources? Professor Michael Byers explains.
When the ice melts
What does the future hold? Jess Worth learns from five leading figures.
Defamation
Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir challenges the idea that there is a ‘new anti-Semitism’.
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Fish Tank
A film that gets inside the mind and feelings of a young person deeply at odds with the world. Written and directed by Andrea Arnold.
Birdwatchers
The reality of indigenous life in the Amazon. Directed and co-written by Marco Bechis
Three Miles North of Molkom
At a new age festival in Sweden, a group of people who’ve never met before explore tree-hugging, sweat lodges, shamanism, tantric sex.
Sin Nombre
A road movie cum Western. Or, rather, it's a railroad movie and the 'West' - where innumerable migrants are headed on railroad wagons - is more accurately the 'North', the US.
Burma VJ – reporting from a closed country
This is the story of ‘Joshua’, an underground video journalist. By Anders Ostergaard
