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Liana Badr - feminist, documentary filmmaker and well renowned author - has a special quest; to rewrite the Palestinian history through the eyes of women. After many years in exile she returned to Ramallah, and her documentaries are for her a way to get to know her country.
Already an acclaimed writer, why did you start making documentaries? I was born in Palestine, but left as a refugee in 1967. I worked as a journalist in Beirut, and with women in refugee camps. After the Oslo agreement in 1994 I came back to Palestine, and I was fascinated by my country, because I didn't know it. I started to make documentaries to understand more about my country, to really get to know it.
You seem to always portray women and children? In arabic countries there is a very manschauvinist attitude. It's always the man who is considered the hero. My films are not always about women and children, but marginalized people. If you look for them, you can find hero's everywhere, in ordinary people.
My first novel was released when I lived in Beirut. It was about a hijacker and it was very well recieved. After that I wrote a collection of short stories about ordinary people, the war destroying their lives. I'm interested in finding the relation between war and the human being. The beauty of the small pleasures in life, subtle things. When I was working as a volunteer in the refugee camps, teaching women to read and write, I discovered that I was learning from them. I discovered there was a lot of wisdom among these people. I started to learn about folklore, and these women were to me a source of wisdom I hadn't myself known before, because I had been in exile. I saw how they are facing the poverty. Even when they have nothing they are generous.
I try to bring all of this into my stories, whether being novels or documentaries. My project is to rewrite the palestinian history through the eyes of women. My mother was a women's activist. She used to teach me how to look at myself as a woman with respect.
You are in Adana with your film The gates are open sometimes. Tell me about it A lof of people are suffering, and the film is to show some of the stories of how they are living there. I was filming the wall, it is a militant area. It was horrible. I was threatened by soldiers many times. Once when I was filming, a soldier was standing behind me, talking very loud to disturb me. It provoked me, I was on the palestinian side of the wall.
All of a sudden the soldiers pointed their guns at me. I had a panic attack, I couldn't breathe. But I saved myself. I opened my arms and shouted "This is Palestinian land!". And they left. But I was on the edge of something very horrible.
The first film I did, Fadwa: A Tale of a Palestinian Poetess, was about a poet, one of the most important poets of Palestine. She wrote a book that is like the bible of the palestinian feminist movement. When she was 12 years old a boy threw flowers on her. Her brother saw it, and it was a big crisis for her family. They told her "You will stay in the house until you die." Her brother Ibrahim Toquan was one of the best poets in Palestine at the time. He didn't let her out of the house, but he taught her to write. After 20 years of house arrest she left the house. She was a rebel, and she established the poetry of love and loneliness in Palestine. I made a film about her, and at the same time about her city. Because her city was also rebellious, always in resistance of the invasion. And it became a classic of the female cinema, because I didn't only make a portrait, I also put her in relation with politics and history. It is the only document of the prescence of this poet.
What is the connecting point between writing novels and making documentaries? To me it's the same process, not technically of course, but otherwise. I start thinking about a topic for a very long time. I become like a bowl of water, and when it's full, I have to make a film or write a book. When I came back to Palestine I discovered people weren't very interested in literature, nobody was reading. So I felt I needed to find another way to connect to people.
Whenever I make a film, I enjoy to get to know more and more about my country. And films can reach far around the world, so that more people can get to know it. I believe the image is what can unite the world. I keep writing for myself, but from time to time I make films, because it's something I need to do. I become obsessed. I become obsessed all the time.
Are you obsessed with anything right now? Yes, with the non-violence manifestations in Jenin. Every friday they demonstrate, they have been doing so for five years now. And every time they are attacked by gas and bullets. A lot of people can be killed every time.


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After successfully organizing the celebrity-fueled and incredible "Hope For Haiti" telethon, George Clooney is now getting ready to travel back to the war-torn region of Darfur.
He says, "I'm on my way there… There are a lot of problems going on. The North-South agreement is falling apart."
That agreement, signed five years ago, officially ended the war between North and South Sudan; though reports of violence have continued. More than 2.5 million people were turned into refugees as a result of the conflict, with 200,000-400,000 civilians killed.
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Jacot began drawing in Detroit, Michigan, in 1981 for recreation, using charcoal on paper to interpret photographs of works by famous masters, such as Charles Sheeler and Walker Evans. He took basic drawing classes at Wayne State University and is essentially self-taught. In 1983 he began to seriously pursue art as a full-time career while performing part-time work as a physician's assistant.
Jacot works in acrylics, oils, gouache, watercolor, and charcoal, but concentrates on oil painting. He works with regular artists' brushes and rarely uses an airbrush for touches in a few paintings. Influenced by Social Realism, his urban landscape includes commonplace subjects and aging structures and portrays their "pathos and dignity." Recently he has taken a different approach to the urban environment or the culture in general, and has focused in on the shop window as a motif for a series of paintings. "There I found unusual and complex arrays of consumer items, toys, etc, old and new, mundane or exotic, but always interesting and beautiful to me. I have edited things out of store window settings and then inserted the objects I wanted to see. Sometimes I have fabricated whole images of window displays. My next step is narrowing the frame of reference furtherdown to close-up views of groups of objects, appliances, etc, still within a store window context. By complement and by contrast I combine things from different eras, objects with similar functions or with nostalgic, humorous, or symbolic value, and thereby reflect the culture around me. Beyond that I want to share my fascination with the forms of the things themselves, their colors and surfaces, and their appearances under different lighting, angles, or lens lengths" Jacot explains.
Exhibitions include: Detroit Landscapes," Xochipilli Gallery, Birmingham, MI,January - February 1990 "Don Jacot - El Structures," Xochipilli Gallery, Birmingham, MI, December 1991, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, September 1999 Xochipilli Gallery, Birmingham, MI, January 9 - February 6 1995 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, March 4-25 1995 Xochipilli Gallery, Birmingham, MI, December 9-30 1999, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 3-24.Group Shows;29,1993 "Photorealism Since 1980," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 23 - June 24,1994 "An American Vision: Photorealism Paintings," Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, March 31 - April 23.


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There Should be a God to See ThisFebruary 18th, 2014
imagine you were god and you had created the universe. but imagine that no organisms were supposed to do any more than eat other organisms and poop and nap. have you ever baked something, and you added the wrong ingredient, and the oven filled up with what was supposed to be cake? no? well, perhaps you've seen it in a movie from when you were younger? can we move on in spite of your lack of baking history? what i'm getting at is that the universe could have been a recipe. the stars and galaxies are moving away from us …accelerating away from us like stage hands pulling back the curtain, and i can't help but feel that the abject darkness that will one day fill the skies – an endless darkness with not a single star cluster to be seen – all light swallowed up by dark energy, leaving us to look at the sun and moon, and maybe venus – was possibly what was intended to be seen. maybe the recipe was meant for us to not see anything of the universe. to have no clue how it works. and instead, because we've seen into a lot of it, we're able to rearrange atoms and turn them into entirely new things. if that was not what was intended, imagine how terrifying that would be to look down on. "well, so far so good. the ones without claws or fangs are staying in this thing. you guys, pay up. everyone thought they would die off immediately. oh …well, this is weird. they're making tools. and they're examining their dead ones to see how they're made. well, that's unsettling. now they're mining minerals and other elements from the soil …and ….oh crap – they're turning them into lasers and bombs! they're growing replacement ears on rats! what the hell is this?! they were supposed to just stab the furry ones with pointy sticks. oh, i see. i added too many brain cells. why do i always do this? how do i turn this thing off? this is too horrific to watch." but if there is no god, it's kind of sad that no one gets to see all this stuff we've figured out.


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Jim Kelley, a longtime sports writer and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 61.Story | Conversation | November 30, 2010
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Scott Stevens' medical issues were well known. But news that he won't play gave pause to his teammates.Story | Conversation | September 06, 2005
25 years ago, they changed historyJim Kelley
Amazingly, after 25 years, the Miracle on Ice's effect can still be felt.Story | Conversation | February 22, 2005
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There are enough free agents available to assemble a Cup-winning team. Question is, how bad do GMs want it?Story | Conversation | July 02, 2004
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There are two schools of thought when it comes to NHL free agency. And we won't know which is best until a new CBA is struck.Story | Conversation | June 29, 2004
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U.S.-born players and U.S. college players are becoming a hotter commodity at the NHL draft.Story | Conversation | June 27, 2004
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The Ottawa Senators traded goaltender Patrick Lalime to the St. Louis Blues for a conditional fourth-round draft pick in 2005, Sunday at the NHL draft.Story | Conversation | June 27, 2004
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Edmonton's first-round risk, the Hurricanes' splash and other notes from around the draft.Story | Conversation | June 26, 2004
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It's not like the NHL didn't see the charge against Todd Bertuzzi coming -- or what could happen as a result.Story | Conversation | June 24, 2004
Drafting goalies still risky businessJim Kelley
Goaltending is the most important position in hockey -- arguably in all of sports. So why is deciding where to draft one so difficult?Story | Conversation | June 24, 2004
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The road to the Stanley Cup seems to be paved with green. Yet many teams have been led down it with players they didn't buy.Story | Conversation | June 22, 2004
Russian players caught in conflictJim Kelley
Alexander Ovechkin is expected to be the No. 1 pick in the NHL draft. But when he'll actually join the NHL is uncertain.Story | Conversation | June 18, 2004
Sides stuck in staredown not stalemateJim Kelley
With the CBA expiring in less than three months, both sides are doing plenty of talking -- just not to each other.Story | Conversation | June 15, 2004


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No, this is not an opportunity to purchase a MW degree like those $99 diplomas advertisements you keep deleting out of your e-mail box. It is however, a somewhat unusual wine auction that offers some interesting surprises.
Wine auctions for charity are big these days. The battling 800 pound gorillas of the game are Auction Napa Valley and the Naples (Florida) Wine Auction. These two, along with other auctions in Sonoma and elsewhere continually outdo each other with raising astronomical sums for their designated charities by auctioning off fabulous packages of wine, travel, celebrity encounters, cars, jets, and more. Mostly they are star-studded events with lots of fanfare.
The Institute of the Masters of Wine auctions that are coming up in London and in New York are going to be a bit different, if only because they are being held by the venerable Christie's auction house. I guarantee it will not be hosted by Robin Williams. Perhaps another key difference is that the charity, in this case, is the Institute for the Masters of Wine itself, which as been run as a non-profit organization since its inception. For years the Institute, which provides what most people acknowledge is the most rigorous and prestigious certification for wine professionals in the world, has funded itself through member dues, donations, and the fees associated with the courses and tests required for certification.
The IMW organization has recently decided that it needs to change two things. It wants to become more broadly involved with the wine drinking public and it wants to create an endowment to help subsidize the costs of its education and other activities to help it deepen its participation in the wine loving world at large.
To that end, it has convinced Christie's to host a couple of auctions for the organization, in which various Masters of Wine from around the world have donated bottles from their cellars, time to conduct classes and tours, and connections for exclusive trips and winery visits. All in all yielding an impressive group of auction lots to be bid on in both New York and London.
Some of the highlights include a trip to Germany to taste through 5 decades of Egon Muller Rieslings, a double magnum of 2000 Chateau Lafite Rothschild, a bottle of 1966 Romanee Conti, a 10 day wine trip in New Zealand, and more. As an added bonus, since Christie's is doing this as a pro-bono auction, successful bidders will not have to pay the usual buyer's premium (20% on top of the winning bid).
So for those who usually perk up their ears about such auctions, this is one that may be low on glitz and high on value. Anyone in the US can bid by fax or by absentee ballot for the New York Auction.
Here are the auction catalogues in PDF form (London and New York) for your perusal.
Institute for the Masters of Wine Endowment Auction
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Wednesday, November 1st, 5:30 PM
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