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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
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ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
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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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