Warning of "Srebrenica" in Gaza as Israel seizes Rafah crossing
Aid cut off as “full-blown famine” in Gaza’s north spreads southward.
Aid cut off as “full-blown famine” in Gaza’s north spreads southward.
Mothin Ali has not been suspended from city council despite proclaiming ‘Allahu Akbar’ and other remarks causing offence
A Green party councillor at the centre of an antisemitism row has apologised “for the upset caused” by his remarks but hit back at “Islamophobic” attacks against him.
The Green party has launched an investigation into Mothin Ali, who was elected to Leeds city council last week, but has declined to suspend him.
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Network anchor claims if not for student protesters, he really would cover Gaza.
Ghassan Abu Sitta banned from France at Germany’s behest.
Palestinian Authority calls Dr. Adnan al-Bursh’s death a “deliberate assassination.”
Despite being full of provable lies, the so-called documentary is receiving uncritical media coverage.
“We are in a race to stave off hunger and death, and we are losing.”
The spooky comedy franchise may seem an unlikely place to find an ethnicity and faith adviser, but productions are increasingly aware of a duty to make sure communities are truthfully represented
The “sensitivity reader” is a well-established, if controversial, figure in the publishing world, offering advice on whether a book’s content might cause offence. The film and TV industry has also been forced to confront similar issues, with “intimacy coordinators” now widely employed to ensure that filmed sex scenes neither harm the actors nor outrage audiences. Perhaps less well-known, but now gaining ground in film and TV, is the role of a “cultural consultant” – advisers taken on by productions to help them navigate the choppy waters of sensitivities around ethnicity and faith.
Sajid Varda, founder and CEO of media charity UK Muslim Film and director of the UK’s inaugural Muslim international film festival, recently completed an assignment on Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the latest instalment of the popular and long-running series of supernatural comedies. Varda says the key to such roles is “authenticity”; it is, he says “not just saying what is wrong with this, but how can we make it better and improve it?”
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