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A 36-year-old- gay Muslim academic recalls his traumatic flight from Kabul twenty years ago.

Joyce Glaser reviews Flee (Not rated) 83 mins. London Film Festival: BFI Southbank NFT 1 and iplayer, 15 October; Curzon Soho 16; Oct Curzon Mayfair 17 October 2021). In almost any other film, the fac ...

andrew 822 views 0 likes Oct 11, 2021

Filmmaking in Afghanistan – there’s no Steven Spielberg, but there is Salim Shaheen

Joyce Glasser reviews The Prince of Nothingwood (December 15, 2017) Cert 15, 86 min. The title of Sonia Kronlund’s documentary is explained by Afghan film producer/director/actor Salim Shaheen. ‘Here, ...

Mark 3477 views 0 likes Dec 15, 2017

My favourite Book of the Week – a must read

Searching through the lists of favourite books of the last few years one book appeared on more lists than any other. First published in May 2003 this is an unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the un ...

admin 3488 views 0 likes Sep 23, 2014

Afghanistan has been a disaster

Much has been made of the withdraw of British troops from their last forward base in Afghanistan. As we’ve seen with the recent re-writing of the history regarding World War 1, our media and pol ...

admin 1866 views 1 likes May 13, 2014