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What Can an Oscar Mean for Palestinian Stories?

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By Brandon Harris
| Yahoo Entertainment Verified
Cinema that takes on the life and times of Palestinians has rarely been celebrated in the West. Paradise Now (2005) and Omar (2013), both by the Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad, were Oscar nominees for best foreign film, and Paradise Now won a Golden Globe in 2006. Last year, No Other Land (2024)—a brutal, indispensable record of the erasure of Masafer Yatta—took home best documentary at the Academy Awards.
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What Can an Oscar Mean for Palestinian Stories?

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By Brandon Harris
| The New Republic Verified
The dialogue can be flabbily expository at times and, at over two hours, the movie is, like so much contemporary cinema, longer than it probably needs to be. That's largely thanks to the remarkable faces Dabis has assembled; she and Saleh Bakri, as her despondent husband, Salim, give fabulous performances as their characters cope with the aftermath of Noor's encounter with an Israeli bullet while attending a protest, and the heartrending choice they ultimately have to make in its wake.
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Ian McEwan’s Haunting Vision of the Future

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By Brandon Harris
| Flipboard
Picking the best books of the year was no easy task, but we sure had a lot of fun doing it. This year brought us romances that left us swooning, …
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