Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, July 25, 2019 16:17 - 0 Comments
Film & TV | Review | ‘When they See Us’ by Ava DuVernay
'When They See Us', Ava DuVernay's four-part dramatised chronicling of the story of the Exonerated Five, is gut-wrenching but compelling viewing, writes Asim Qureshi.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Friday, June 7, 2019 14:15 - 0 Comments
Film | An urgent, necessary homage: “Fanon: Yesterday, Today” by Hassane Mezine
“Fanon: Hier, Aujourd’hui,” a landmark documentary film by Hassane Mezine is a worthy homage and testament to Fanon's life and legacy, writes Rachida Lamri.
Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Thursday, October 25, 2018 17:48 - 0 Comments
Theatre | Review | The Shroud Maker: Lives and death in Palestine
In the Shroud Maker, Palestinian playwright Ahmed Masoud brings a welcome dose of gallows humour to the most tragic of canvasses, writes Christa Blackmon.
Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Sunday, August 26, 2018 12:59 - 0 Comments
Theatre | Review | Translations (National Theatre)
The recent National Theatre production of Brian Friel's 'Translations' is a remarkable take on the central — and perennially relevant — questions of place, belonging and dislocation, argues Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya in her review.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, August 7, 2018 0:00 - 0 Comments
Books | Nincompoopolis: The Follies of Boris Johnson
Doug Murphy’s Nincompoopopolis is a suitably and rewardingly vicious, neat précis of the political and architectural legacies of Johnson in his time in power in London, argues Alex Baker.
Arts & Culture, Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Monday, February 5, 2018 20:34 - 0 Comments
Comment | The tone-deafness of privilege: Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl
Justin Timberlake's Super Bowl performance last night was a bitter reminder of the American cultural establishment's shameful mistreatment of an iconic black female artist, and his complicity in it, writes Ali M. Latifi.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, November 26, 2017 0:00 - 0 Comments
Books | Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert, by Hamja Ahsan
Shy Radicals by Hamja Ahsan is a quietly hilarious demolition of late capitalism’s invasion of our senses, time and privacy, writes Rachel Seoighe in her review.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, November 12, 2017 10:47 - 0 Comments
Books | An Anthem of a Revolution That Was — A Revolution That Will Be: ‘The City Always Wins’ by Omar Robert Hamilton
Omar Robert Hamilton's debut novel is a beautifully crafted examination of the Egyptian revolution and its aftermath, writes Ahmed Masoud.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, October 25, 2017 15:18 - 0 Comments
Television | ‘My Week As a Muslim’: A well-meaning, patronising caricature
There is nothing more patronising than watching a brown-faced, caricatured version of yourself repeating your own experiences back to you, writes Samayya Afzal in her review of My Week As a Muslim.
Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Monday, October 9, 2017 17:17 - 1 Comment
Theatre | Review | ‘Searingly humane, compelling theatre’: My Name Is Rachel Corrie (Young Vic)
The new production of 'My Name is Rachel Corrie' offers not only compelling theatre but a searingly humane portrait of an extraordinary life, writes Hicham Yezza.
