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Ehud Barak, former Minister of Defense and Prime Minister of Israel.

Tel Aviv (2014): Interview with Ehud Barak.
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MODERN TIMES: Quarterly magazine next!

: It was time to settle the status quo, now in our sixth year for today's MODERN TIMES. Not only is the world changing with a pandemic (see otherwise in the newspaper), but the public has also changed drastically in the last decade.
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Takes freedom of speech seriously

WEEKDAY: "We must understand the power that can lie in the literature", says festival director for LitFestBergen, Teresa Grøtan
Mette Karlsvik -

Village life in the West Bank

TRAVEL LETTER: Palestinian Minister of Culture and award-winning author Atef Abu Saif will highlight the rich cultural heritage and bring art to the people.
Vibeke Harper -

Gaza is like mercury

GAZA: Can the proposed US solution with land redistribution and an expansion of the Gaza Strip end the conflict in the Middle East?
Nadia Othman -

Crazy in the streets of Jerusalem

Joseph Cedar: Our Boys

THE BOYS: Israeli docu-drama tackles the traumatic wave of violence and revenge that led to open war in the summer of 2014.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

The lot of human life

Juna Suleiman: Mussolini's Sister

WOMEN'S LIFE: Black humor illuminates this close-up portrait of a sarcastic, elderly Palestinian woman's life, relationships, longing and bitterness.
Nick Holdsworth -

The lost defender

Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe Bellaiche: Advocate

ISRAEL: For almost fifty years, Lea Tsemel has been at the forefront of the fight for justice and compassion for those who are lost and impossible to defend.
Bianca-Olivia Nita -

Gaza: A silk thread separates life from death

ISRAEL-PALESTINE: For people in the Gaza Strip, hope is running out.
Nadia Othman -

Dandelion of the West Bank

Christy Garland: What Walaa Wants

: LANYARD: What Walaa Wants portrays a child growing up in the shadow of Israeli occupation and Palestinian freedom struggle, in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank.
Ellen Lande -

Sentenced to prison for his poetry

: TEL AVIV: Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was arrested and placed under house arrest by Israeli authorities in October 2015. Due to a poem. Well, she's out of house arrest. March 3 she comes to Oslo (at Vega, Salongen).
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Small bits of beauty

Garry Keane, Andrew McConnell: Gaza

EVERYDAY IN GAZA: The film depicts the resignation that is, in fact, a will to find a life and a happiness in the midst of all the tragedies.
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Then the people had enough

Julia Bacha: Naila and the Uprising

: OCCUPATION: Naila and the Uprising is a close and personal story of women's struggle and big politics during the first intifada.
Vibeke Harper -

The documentary as a means of communication

Matt Peterson, Malek Rasamny: Spaces of Exception

: Spaces of Exception compares the experience of oppression and resistance, and finds similarities between North American Indian reservations and Palestinian refugee camps.
Carmen Gray -

25 years after the Oslo Agreement

Seth Anziska: Preventing Palestine. A Political History from Camp David to Oslo.

: Eager to bring the Camp David agreement to fruition in 1978 has later made it difficult to meet the Palestinians' desire for an independent state, writes historian Seth Anziska in a new book.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

That talk is taboo

Ziad Doueiri: insult

: When Lebanese-born Ziad Doueiri launched his new film, he considered it highly likely that the Lebanese authorities would ban the film because of its controversial content.  
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