2+ week, 5+ day ago  (510+ words)Prisoner and prison guard: Jafar Panahi's empathetic vision of cinema'Business Standard...and, in fact, there is no difference between the prisoner and the prison guard." Panahi, of course, has considerable experience as a prisoner Since his third feature film,…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (788+ words) From the very beginning, readers carry a devastating knowledge that Sharabi himself did not have while he was in captivity: that his wife and two daughters were murdered in Kibbutz Be'eri on the day he was abducted. That painful gap…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (362+ words) Review: What a Gripping BBC Drama Gets Wrong About Tehran Prison Life Get audio access with...interactions with Iran's feared Revolutionary Guard, Zaghari-Ratcliffe stares down her captors. At the beginning...honesty?" It was both surreal and confronting to see Nazanin…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (695+ words) New Yorkers are fed up with ICE's response to immigrant communities Mamdani signs executive order to cut fees for small NYC businesses Home Depot brings back in-person work Don Lemon arrested, released after covering Los Angeles anti-ICE protest Federal judge…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (397+ words) I was overwhelmed with the ignominy of living Lebanese," says Raja, the main character in Rabih Alameddine's seventh novel, the day after the 2020 Beirut port explosion. Raja has a sweeping brush in ... The True True Story of Raja the Gullible…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (934+ words) The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest (Switch) Review'Nintendo World Report The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest (Switch) Review by Joel A. DeWitte - February 9, 2026, 9:32 am EST Therapy in Metroidvania Form Self-expression is at the core of all good art, capturing the raw emotion at the sum…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (280+ words) The dissident director discusses the choices she made in depicting Iran's notorious prison for political prisoners and intellectuals where she spent time behind bars Dissident Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi " known internationally for works such as "Women Without Shadows," "Travelogue" and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (232+ words) Spanning eras of conflict and Covid in Lebanon, this irresistible queer coming-of-age tale explores what it means to be truly free The banking collapse and the Covid'pandemic are both played as comedies. The former sees an outraged Zalfa taking to…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (996+ words) Narges Rashidi and Joseph Fiennes in "Prisoner 951'. Credit: BBC / Dancing Ledge Narges...emotionally challenging role she's ever played: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian citizen who was imprisoned...state for six years. The extraordinary story of Nazanin, the stark reality of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (138+ words) Jafar Panahi's dissident films. His films show how a regime's wrongdoing can upend one's sense of self and transform the very rhythm of daily life. Alex Kong is'a PhD student in English at Yale University.' A new set of note…...