He has lived in London for two decades, because the first time that he came to the British Isles to attend a conference, the city and the country captivated him so much that once he had returned to his own country he began to think about the possibility of making […]
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Behind the veil
The term ‘hijab’ comes from the Arabic root ‘hayaba’ which encompasses several meanings, all revolving around the idea of ‘hiding’ ‘obscuring vision’ or ‘separating’. In the Arabic language, the use of the same root leads to words such as ‘curtain’ and ‘screen’. Daniel Fernandez García A first look […]
Ventura Pons Sala: “Cinema is my life, without wasting five minutes”
He arrived in London with ‘Barcelona (a map)’, three years after its successful premiere. He came to show it for the first time in the UK, as part of the ‘Looking for Film in Literature’ cycle. He spoke exclusively to The Prisma. Javier Polo In the midst of […]
Kurdistan, an ethnic genocide
2000 marked the beginning of a new era. After the consideration of admitting Turkey to the EU, they were obliged to respect the rights of the national minorities of Turkey. Daniel Fernández “There is not only one nation in Turkey; there is also the Kurdish nation”. Those are […]
I write from prison…
Jorge Iván López Alzate wrote his experience in Pentonville and Brixton prisons by hand and decided to make it public in order to ‘help other Latinos who may have difficulties in England and, therefore, end up in these or any other prisons. Today, with his permission, we are publishing excerpts […]
















