Abstract art is always hit or miss, and although taste in any creative form is entirely subjective, the merits and […]
Believers and Non-Believers
Volume 27 issue 3
Trying to Get out of the Middle East as a Metaphor
If you were to ask me how my summer went, I might answer you that I traveled to Portugal, to […]
Believing From the Inside Out
The leaves are red, deep red, burgundy, bright yellow, baby green light, crispy brown, dark green, orange mixed with red […]
Dispatches – 43rd Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal
http://www.nouveaucinema.ca/ *** Review by Mirella Bontempo The Kindergarten Teacher, Nadav Lapid Nira, a middle class Kindergarten teacher, seems banal at […]
Believers and Non-Believers
Beliefs are strange phenomena. They define our values and principles. Some of us hold them close to our hearts, whereas […]
10th Montreal International Black Film Festival – Half of a Yellow Sun
The 10th Montreal International Black Film Festival – 10 MIBFF – closed on September 28 with the screening of Half […]
A Review of The Universe in a Single Atom. The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
The Universe in a Single Atom. The Convergence of Science and Spirituality By His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Morgan Road […]

Jewish Identity, Jewish Heroes, Jewish Paranoia: An Interview with Scott Weinstein
Montreal Serai had the opportunity to have a discussion with Scott Weinstein, Montreal based social and political activist, who has […]
Enslavement
The human mind is clever – and the human hand as well. There’s much that they’ve discovered, as our books […]

An Interview with Professor Norman Cornett – L’Heureux Naufrage/Fortunate Shipwreck
JO: We have invited Professor Cornett here today to discuss issues surrounding a film called L’Heureux Naufrage/Fortunate Shipwreck: The Ambient […]
GOLDEN TEMPLE 1947. 1984. 2014
Every summer during school holidays my mother would take us from Indian-administered Kashmir to Ludhiana in Punjab to visit our […]
A Narrative of Resistance
Turmoil Sometimes I feel consumed by anger, perhaps I ought to say by RAGE, a rage of unfathomable limits! Witnessing […]
Hindutva and Genocide – ‘beliefs’ of the Gujarat ‘model’?
Growing up in early post-colonial India, the country was so different. The ethos was that we were newly-independent from colonialism […]
SOS Alternatives to Capitalism: A discussion with Richard Swift
Montreal Serai had the opportunity to discuss SOS: Alternative to Capitalism – a handy, slim compendium of vital, essential thoughts […]
Journey into the Vortex
[The prehispanic part of the story is based on sociological findings and traditional legends. The modern part is based on […]
Archeology of the Soul – artist Graziella Malagoni
Artist Statement: The preoccupation of life and death and the search for the transcendent are universal and timeless; it is […]
Peoples Social Forum 2014: “Tooling” the Revolution – A Report
“Advertising invalidates people, leading to anger. Anger turned sideways, that’s cultural jamming. It’s a way of reinserting ourselves into culture,” […]
Voyage of the Penguins
This story is in memory of the passengers who were on the Komagata Maru. This happened exactly a hundred […]
Greetings, Grief, and Kabir
GREETINGS [Children growing up in South Asian homes often have to choose from diverse forms of greetings, each one representing […]
Two Poems by Louise Carson
Communion Ambiguity adds another layer. Slice into a fresh made day. Take. Eat. You know who you are. […]
INCREYENTE
Una mujer desnuda Era una mujer desnuda Un hombre desnudo Era un hombre desnudo Un hombre y una […]
Reason and Faith
Lately I’ve been wondering whether I’m a ‘Skeptic’ or a ‘True Believer’. American author Chet Raymo coined these categories in […]
BELIEVERS AND NON-BELIEVERS
Being believers is problematic for women in a world saturated by religions that are patriarchal and androcentric. The belief […]
On Religions
It must be a passionate subject since Woody Allen, one of the rare American filmmakers still producing auteur features, has […]