Ziad Shihab

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Tomu Uchida | 警察官 (Keisatsukan) (Police Officer, aka Policeman)

Tomu Uchida | 警察官 (Keisatsukan) (Police Officer, aka Policeman)SourceURL: http://internationalcinemareview.blogspot.com/2023/02/tomu-uchida-keisatsukan-police-officer.html looking homeward by Douglas Messerli Eizo Yamauchi (screenplay, based on a story by Toshihiko Takeda), Tomu Uchida (director) 警察官 (Keisatsukan) (Police Officer, aka Policeman) / 1933 Only this film of the several of the several Tomu Uchida made in pre-war Japan has survived intact. But Keisatsukan...

Investigating German colonialism in the British Library’s collections

Content warning: This blog reproduces an image from a historical publication which is now considered racistLast week, the Zanzibari writer Abdulrazak Gurnah became the first black African author in 35 years to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Judges from the Swedish Academy highlighted his ‘uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism’ as a key reason for the distinction.Much of Gurnah’s writing is set in East Africa, and his latest novel, Afterlives, explores ...

The Map of Mathematics | Quanta Magazine

PhysicsMathematicsBiologyComputer ScienceAll Articles40Read LaterCopied!* 40CommentsRead LaterRead LaterKevin HartnettSenior WriterFebruary 13, 2020Comment on this articleQuanta Magazine moderates comments to facilitate an informed, substantive, civil conversation. Abusive, profane, self-promotional, misleading, incoherent or off-topic comments will be rejected. Moderators are staffed during regular business hours (New York time) and can only accept comments written in English. Show commentsA...