STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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The Human Factor
MARIA DUARTE recommends a behind-the-scenes look at the decades-long involvement of US diplomats in the Middle East
ALL ABOUT HISTORY: From left: Israel’s then prime minister Ehud Barak, US president Bill Clinton and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Camp David talks in 2000
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
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Directed by Dror Moreh
AS THE Israel-Palestine conflict rages once again, resulting in more violence and death, Dror Moreh’s timely new film provides an invaluable insight into the difficulties and elusiveness of achieving peace in the Middle East.
It takes an extraordinary and illuminating behind-the-scenes look at the United States’s decades-long involvement in the region, but through the eyes of the key US negotiators on the front line.
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