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Film: The Silence of Others, dir. Robert Bahar and Almudena Carracedo, 2018

Almodóvar-produced documentary about the victims of Franco's regime who are trying to find justice in courts despite the resistance of Spain's government to own up to its past crimes

August 22nd, 2019|Country: Argentina, Spain, USA|

Film: Ghosts of Sugar Land, dir. Bassam Tariq, 2019

A Sundance winning documentary acquired by Netflix: a bunch of childhood friends try to figure out why the only non-Asian-American, non-Muslim-born person in their group had decided to join ISIS

July 28th, 2019|Country: USA|

Film: Screwdriver, dir. Bassam Jarbawi, 2018

A relentless study of PTSD through the eyes of a man who returns to Ramallah after 15 years in Israeli prison, which ultimately becomes a metaphor for Palestine's postcolonial future

July 18th, 2019|Country: Palestine, Qatar, USA|

Book: Gaston Dorren, Babel, 2018

A book of wildly entertaining and illuminating essays on the world’s top 20 languages that celebrates the planet’s differences and similarities in a new way and makes you want to learn a new language

July 11th, 2019|Country: Brazil, Cameroon, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tamil Eelam, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam|

Film: Silent Forests, dir. Mariah Wilson, 2019

Documentary shedding light on the people who help fight poaching and protect the endangered species in the often overlooked wildlife zones of Cameroon and Congo-Brazzaville

June 22nd, 2019|Country: Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, USA|

Film: Bigger Than Africa, dir. Toyin Ibrahim Adekeye, 2018

A long overdue educational and mesmerizing documentary on the way Yoruba religion spread from West Africa to many regions of the world via slave trade routes: and people practicing it today

June 19th, 2019|Country: Benin, Brazil, Cuba, Nigeria, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, USA|

Film: Clean Hands, dir. Michael Dominic, 2019

Winner of 2019 Cinequest, Michael Dominic's documentary about an impoverished family who lives off Central America's biggest landfill, and their attempt to get out of poverty

June 17th, 2019|Country: Nicaragua, USA|

Film: Initials S.G., dir. Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia, 2019

A very dark comedy about an Argintinean Serge Gainsbourg wannabe from a filmmaker couple

May 9th, 2019|Country: Argentina, Lebanon, USA|

Art: T. C. Cannon, His Hair Flows Like a River, 1973

Native American artist who explored the themes of identity and belonging during the Vietnam war

May 3rd, 2019|Country: Native American tribes, USA|

Music: Kondi Band, Salone, 2017

Thumb piano electronica that brings tradition to the dancefloor

April 13th, 2019|Country: Sierra Leone, USA|

Book: Honey Meconi, Hildegard of Bingen, 2018

A biography of Medieval Europe’s visionaire and marketing genius, and one of the earliest known women composers

April 8th, 2019|Country: Germany, USA|

Book: Huda Fahmy, Yes, I’m Hot In This, 2018

Comic strips that capture the frustrations and the joys of a contemporary American woman in a headscarf: and the face palms that non-Muslim Americans around her ignite

April 6th, 2019|Country: USA|

Book: Xhenet Aliu, Brass, 2018

April 1st, 2019|Country: Albania, Lithuania, USA|

Book: Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau, Bloom, 2019

February 11th, 2019|Country: USA|

Book: Tom Sleigh, The Land Between Two Rivers, 2018

February 3rd, 2019|Country: Iraq, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Palestine, Somalia, Syria, USA, Wales|