Abdul Salam Rocketi (the man in question) talks about the importance of including the Taleban into Afghan politics. He talks about the mistakes the US has made and how the peace process is not possible without including the Taleban in Afghan politics.
An interesting article I think.
This video is a bit of a running joke in my BA project group - all three of us have this problem. Does anybody else find the events portrayed in this video familiar? ;)
This is a report on people being forced out of their houses by corporations.
{FILM DIARY}
De verloren kolonie (Netherlands, 2008)
Seen: Wednesday, 13th May 2009 (cinema, Planete Doc Review)
Runtime: 70′
Director: Astrid Bussink
Production House: Zeppers Film en TV BV, NPS Television
Plot: A documentary about the first Primate Research Centre in the world, which happens to be in Abkhazia. It has a very glorious past - it is, for example, where the [...]
Latawce (Poland, 2007)
Seen: Wednesday, 13th May 2009 (cinema, Planete Doc Review)
Runtime: 80′
Director: Beata Dzianowicz
Production House: TVP, Eureka Media
Plot: The makers of the film organize a documentary film course in a Kabul art school. What kind of films will the students come up with?
Trailer
Haven’t found any sort of clips of this on-line, sorry.
Impressions In Short
The film [...]
{MONTHLY SUMMARIES}
I should probably call these mid-monthly summaries :] Oh well, maybe I’ll get the timing right next month ;)
My Month in Brief
April has been a month of finally trying to get things together. There’s a lot of minor things to do and I’ve been trying to plan and do them. For example I got [...]
I accidentally stumbled across this - it’s hilarious and completely insane *grin*
I haven’t seen Candeloro for ages (he retired about when I started to watch skating - that was 1998). Technically he’s no match for the skaters of today, but for the theatrical content… skaters today just don’t get that theatrical - even at exhibition [...]
I felt this was quite a strange, but fascinating story. Google has included some historical Japanese maps in their Google Earth service and there are calls for these maps to be taken down:
The maps date back to the country’s feudal era, when shoguns ruled and a strict caste system was in place. At the bottom [...]
Taekwondo has really kicked off in Afghanistan (they got their first Olympic medal in Beijing in 2008). But there’s another sport that is developing rapidly in Afghanistan and it’s cricket. Here’s the story of a British-Afghan match held in Kabul, it’s really sweet :)
