A new book by an English writer and film-maker describes how his early experience of the country led to a desire to overcome its distorted image in the UK press. He wants to show readers the social and historical context of violence, and the political changes required for lasting peace. […]
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Burkas to bikinis
Roaming around the National Mosque in a burka in Kuala Lumpur I began to feel a similar sensation to what I had just felt on the beach in Langkawi Island in the Andaman Sea a few days earlier. Faryal Iqbal It was a liberating feeling that I felt […]
From Art Cinema to Iranian execution list: Emir Hasanpor
– 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 […]
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, […]
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