Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

" Nolan’s every film, from  Following  (1998) to  Dunkirk  (2017), reverses the anti-tradition of Roberto Rossellini, whom Jean-Luc Godard, in  Godard on Godard , celebrates as a great artist because he trusts chance. “To trust chance is  to hear voices ,” Godard wrote, by which he meant the voices of other people. If Christopher Nolan hears any voice, it’s Margaret Thatcher’s from 1987." Tory Porn / The Hobbesian anti-art of Christopher Nolan

Photography St Petersburg, Russia

“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.” — Hannah Arendt

Syria Massacring the arguments of those who have been supporting the Assad regime and Russia's intervention, orgasmically celebrating "the liberation of Aleppo". Justifying the unjustifiable Also,  Stop the War Coalition's failure to actively campaign against the wars crimes of Syrian and the Russian regimes " My friends in Aleppo would rather die than captured by Assad's militias." — Zeina Erhaim, a Syrian journalist Here are some of the arguments put by those who defend the Syrian regime: Apart from "the terrorists" of the armed rebel forces, "The Assad family belongs to the tolerant Islam of Alawid orientation. • Syrian women have the same rights as men to study, health and education. • Syria women are not forced to wear the burqa. The Sharia (Islamic law) is unconstitutional. • Syria is the only Arab country with a secular constitution and does not tolerate Islamic extremist movements. • Roughly 10% of the Syrian populat...

Fabricationg illusions of people power in post-coup Turkey

Soviet Lithuania in Pictures (1970s - 1990s)

Cairo C. 1900-1934 The accurate translation for Arabic meaning of Cairo is "the invincible".