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'Dear Darwish' by Morani Kornberg-Weiss

‘Dear Darwish’: A poetically and politically brave book

Israeli-American poet Morani Kornberg-Weiss breaks with conventional poetics and mainstream politics. But who, exactly, is Dear Darwish for? Dear Darwish, Morani Kornberg-Weiss’s first collection of poetry, opens with a prose poem that that doubles as an indictment of Israeli society. Cleverly disguised as a letter, it is addressed to the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat September 3, 2014

Zero Dark Thirty / Sony Pictures

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is the most vile and immoral war film I’ve seen in years

“Revenge of the agonized killers” would have been a more appropriate title. Sometime in the late 1960s, Israeli cinema stopped producing heroic war stories – the kind of action or drama movies where the protagonist serves his country, noble against a powerful and cruel enemy. The quantity of other such works of fiction – in…

By Noam Sheizaf January 27, 2013