– A glance behind the Curtain – “Religion overcasts on Iran’s sky like an octopus and people are controlled like stitch dolls, if anybody speaks something athwart is condemned to execution and easily done so”, says this Iranian independent film maker. Shanta Sultana The melancholy director, a […]
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Great Britain, an island of identity
T.S. Eliot famously said that ‘culture’ was something that included ‘all the characteristics, activities and interests of a people’, an apt definition for British identity. The Prisma’s Memoirs. November 2012 Georgina Campbell It is by no means an easy feat to pinpoint specifically what British culture is and […]
A child of the war in Africa
José Manuel Valdermar Prata spent the first years of his life in his birthplace Benguela, a coastal city west of Angola. At the age of nine, he was already aware that the country had been immersed into a civil war, one which at times seemed to be resolved by peace, […]
Latin-American youth: a life marked by violence
The continent’s children and young people are the most vulnerable members of society, most affected by the high rates of criminality and inequality recorded in countries in the region. Seven out of ten murder victims come from this age group. The Prisma’s Memoirs. September 2012.s . Miriam Valero . Latin […]
Prostitution in the UK (I): Poverty, the driving force
It has become the only option for many women, but discrimination and prosecution are the only ‘solutions’ thrown at this problem of poverty and gender. The Prisma’s Memoirs. July 2012_ César Amaya Sandino In the United Kingdom around 70% of women in prostitution are single mothers who do […]