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As the tired saying goes, “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” Kaouther Ben Hania’s latest feature film, “The Man Who Sold His Skin” takes this trope and…
Coming of age stories broadly follow the same exhausted arc: protagonists discovering themselves through sex and narcotics, neatly slotted into the Lynx or Impulse wearing teenage years, before arriving at…
Last year, I was convinced that TikTok was for children. I had conversations about how annoying the app was and that I’d die before ever using the platform myself. Alive…
I hadn’t spent as much time with my grandfather as I would have liked to before he passed away. I was three years old when my family moved from Pakistan…
The saying goes, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. In Myanmar, the government is learning a different lesson: allying with the military junta is a double-edged sword, and…
When I place the crown on Ryan Lanji’s head before we start shooting, he assures me of one thing: “I always give good head,” he jokes, flashing me a Colgate…
It’s impossible to compile a Christmas gift guide without mentioning the yoyo lockdown we’re all currently facing. While I did try my very best to omit the L word for…
When Baghdad Central aired at the start of this year, Iraqi viewers across the globe tuned in with hopes of seeing their culture and motherland represented on screen. Instead, the…
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