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Fear, fury and fatigue in Rafah
Hamas agrees to Gaza truce as Israel vows to move into Rafah
Netanyahu’s war cabinet unanimously decides to press on with offensive.
I want this nightmare to end
Utter nonsense from CNN's Jake Tapper
Network anchor claims if not for student protesters, he really would cover Gaza.
Genocide robs children of parents
My brother saves lives
Civil rights don't apply to Palestinians living in Europe
Ghassan Abu Sitta banned from France at Germany’s behest.
Renowned Gaza surgeon killed in Israeli detention
Palestinian Authority calls Dr. Adnan al-Bursh’s death a “deliberate assassination.”
Debunking "Screams Before Silence," Sheryl Sandberg's 7 Oct. "mass rape" film
Despite being full of provable lies, the so-called documentary is receiving uncritical media coverage.
An agonizing wait to identify Gaza's dead
Shady far-right groups behind Texas Tech professor’s suspension
Rafah invasion imminent, UN warns
“We are in a race to stave off hunger and death, and we are losing.”
Gaza's tents have become ovens
‘It’s about valuing their audience’: why Ghostbusters called in a Muslim ‘cultural consultant’
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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