REVOLUTION: A Power Cut and the End of State Power
Watching a TVseries is a great time investment compared to enjoying a movie. That is why, I feel quite picky before taking the risk of being a follower of several...
Movie Review: Khuda Kay Liye – In the Name of God
The Pakistani Urdu Language Drama Film “Khuda Kay Liye (In the Name of God)”, literal translation “For God’s Sake”, is the story of misinterpretation of Islam and its backlash on...
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s last movie Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) is a story of a murder and the officers’ efforts to find the place where the...
Shadows and Faces: The Little Sparks of the Upcoming War
This is a movie which can prove that a war scene between two brigades would probably not be more influential than seeing the beginning of war between two next-door neighbours....
What is so Good about The Sopranos?
By ENES ERBAY | 26.09.2011 The boundaries between television drama and cinema have blurred in recent years. Tim Van Patten, the director of The Sopranos, once said “This show [The Sopranos]...
Spirited Away: A Glance at Hayao Miyazaki
BY ENES ERBAY** | 08.06.2011 “For the people who used to be 10 years old, and for the people who are going to be 10 years old” is the definition...
“The War You Don’t See”
By Salwa Al Khatib | 24.03.2011 At a time in history when war is all we seem to see on the news, from Palestine, to Iraq to Afghanistan to Sudan...
On Michael Haneke’s Funny Games US
By Enes Erbay | 01 June 2010 As a masterpiece in Haneke's filmography, Funny Games US (2007) is a remake of the Funny Games (1997). This anti-thriller, like the others that precede it, is...
Modern Business, Modern Warfare and Contemporary Cinema
By Kadri Kaan Renda | 01 March 2010 A war drama set in Iraq, 'The Hurt Locker', by Kathryn Bigelow and a comedy set in the United States, 'Up in...
Midnight Express: Hatred Beats Cinematography
By Alaaddin F. Paksoy | 26 September 2010 "The fault of the movie is simple. It is a movie about Turkey without any Turk in it, neither in the cast nor...
Book Review: Armed Conflict and Displacement: The Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons under
In 2010, Alexander Betts argued that it no longer makes sense to speak of the “refugee regime”. Instead, there is…a “refugee regime complex”, in which different institutions overlap [and] exist...
Book Review: Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday
Tarik Sabry’s Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday is, first and foremost, a fervent case made for the establishment of Arab cultural studies as a...
Book Review: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media: Producing Shared Memory and National Identity in the Global Television Era
In The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media: Producing Shared Memory and National Identity in the Global Television Era, Tamar Ashuri discusses the tensions between several forces such as nationalism and globalization; economic...
Book Review: The Politics of Global Regulation
The process of neoliberal globalization underway since the 1980s has had destabilizing impacts on nation-states and their institutions. BY DR. EVREN TOK | 22 OCTOBER 2012 State capacity and national policy-making...
Book Review: Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient
Since Edward Said’s Orientalism modern scholarship has developed an ever-intensifying awareness toward Eurocentric notions that have been long imbedded in the Western narrations of the East, or Orient. BY YASIR YILMAZ | MAY...