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Middle East

Jihad Rehab Review: A Question of Ethics

by Pat Mullen
January 23, 2022January 23, 2023
Reviews/Sundance

Jihad Rehab boasts impressive access with interviews with men at a de-radicalization centre, but has a flawed methodology.

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Sabaya Review: As Powerful As It Is Problematic

by Pat Mullen
October 20, 2021October 22, 2021
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Hogir Hirori's acclaimed Sabaya captures the plight of Yazidi women in ways both compelling and problematic.

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TIFF 2021: The Devil’s Drivers Review

by Pat Mullen
September 12, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

Daniel Carsenty and Mohammed Abugeth's The Devil's Drivers is a high-octane human rights thriller with real world stakes thanks to its portrait of an underground taxi service that navigates the Israel/Palestine border.

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The Middle East Dilemma

by Tara Hakim
January 15, 2020October 6, 2021
Essays/Features

What are the stories being told about the Middle East, how are they being told, and does it matter who is documenting them?

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Review: ‘The Judge’

by Antastasia Akulinina
September 13, 2017October 24, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

The Judge (Palestine/USA, 82 min.) Dir. Erika Cohn Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere)   Erika Cohn’s The Judge is a captivating and stirring documentary, which chronicles the story of the first female

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Review: ‘The Father, the Son and the Holy Jihad’

by Maurie Alioff
May 1, 2016December 26, 2021
Hot Docs/Reviews

Stéphane Malterre's The Father, the Son and the Holy Jihad shows the reality of life in a Middle East removed from ignorant pronouncements.

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Doc Revolutions in the Middle East: The Al Jazeera Festival

by Stephanie Boyd
February 1, 2012May 20, 2022
Festivals

A look at dedicated young Arab filmmakers and their works in the months before Arab Spring.

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