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11. Film Review - MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING - Mirella Bontempo
The Big Fat Ethno-Indie that could - Are we to expect more Hollywood films riding the Diaspora coat tails (and wedding organza train) after MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING?12. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, An African Perspective - Mahmood Mamdani
It is true that, unless we learn to forget, life will turn into revenge-seeking. But civilization cannot be built on just forgetting. We must not only learn to forget, we must also not forget to learn.
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1. GUEST EDITORIAL: IMPRISONED BY DEMOCRACY - Aziz Choudry
If democracy is little more than a changeable mask on the face of corporate power, who are we really voting for and are our opinions really our opinions?2. HARD BALL AT THE WAILING WALL - Robert J. Lewis
Is it politically incorrect to suggest that where the African pandemic of AIDS ends is where Islam begins?3. THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING: Paula Nechak interviews director Jill Sprecher
Who talks about what it’s like making a film after surviving a vicious attack. Some enchanted evening . . .4. DEVDAS: A Film Review - Ashoke Dasgupta
Big money and Bollywood melodrama: the stuff of mediocrity? Split decision on this one.5. Art of LYDIA SCHRUFER
“Break on through to the other side . . .” to Absolvo: where color and content conspire to inspire.6. The Music of VOODOO JAZZ
Using Rap as a subset of jazz and hip hop, Montreal’s VOODOO JAZZ is primed to go global.7. POETICS: Two Poems - Maria Cuervo
The Havana moon and metaphysics as a single landscape without borders.8. OLD MAN IN THE MOB SAID BHAG JA BETA - Parnab Mukherjee
Crime and cover up are not prerogatives of the West. Hindu fascism crosses the Ganges.9. THE LIBRARY IN CRISIS - Steven Fesenmaier reviews Julian Samuel’s Documentary
What happens to information deemed ‘disposable’ and by whose authority? A film as unsettling as learning about the contents of mass-produced sausage.10. WHAT KINDA HOOP-JAM IS THIS? - Rana Bose
Where cows mulch the moonlight and singers harp on forgotten notes.
