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Microwork’s method is admittedly clever as it is simple. You have menial task, you post it online, and someone on the other side of the world does it for you for a shockingly low price.
Dozens …

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There is a brilliant sci-fi genre that describes sentient beings who reject human form entirely and ‘download’ themselves into giant machines to live out entirely digital lives. The creation of these beings create moral and …

The 15th London Palestine Film Festival organizes experimental, documentary and drama pre-festival events at three venues across London.

Former SOAS tutor Matti Pohjonen has just finished developing a short film set in one of India’s most enigmatic cities.

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Oh how outraged everyone is getting over the bean spilling going on at the Leveson Enquiry.
Yet looking at phone hacking as a morality tale masks the real background story. As the enquiry is revealing, phone …

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This is a review on a section of the French film Les statues meurent aussi (1953), directed by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, two French filmmakers framed in the Nouvelle Vague that refused to follow …

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Al-Jazeera has recently passed two milestones. The first, on 11 November was the launch of its new Balkans channel. The second, four days later, was the fifth anniversary of Al-Jazeera English. As Al-Jazeera extends its …

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The lovers (Magritte).
1. Introduction

This dissertation carries out a comparison between East is East (Damien O’Donnell, 1999) and Ae Fond Kiss (Ken Loach, 2004) in order to analyse the influence of multiculturalism in the contemporary …

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For those in and around London next week, you may be interested in a forthcoming event on documentary practices from India, including screenings, conversations and discussions on the theory and practice of selected films and …

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The Distribution Forum is our unique event to bring together African and UK-based filmmakers from the diaspora with leading UK-based film distributors. It is an open workshop, free to the public where practical advice on …

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Film aficionados, please be sure to check out Film Africa 2011, taking place 3rd – 13th November at various London cinemas and co-organised by SOAS Senior Lecturer Lindiwe Dovey.
Film Africa boasts:
10 days of more than …

Attempting to counter the stifled ability to express, Arabs.com interestingly points out that we must admit that we are ‘oppressed’ in order to actually combat that oppression. In his ‘message’, the founder of the website states his support for the freedom of choice and expression as well as the need for platforms without bias or guardianship.

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This review originally appeared in Literary Review, April 2011
This book essentially a warning to the West – a term that is never defined but refers more or less to US policymakers – about its blinkered cyber-utopianism. Evgeny Morozov …

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So the joke goes that Mubarak dies and meets Nasser and Sadat in the afterlife. They ask him, “were you poisoned or shot?” Mubarak shrugs and answers “Facebook!”  Actually, an Egyptian family did recently name …

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On March 30th, the frontline club and in association with BBC Arabic hosted a special panel titled: Protest, Technology and the End of Fear. The event hosted Alaa Abdul Fattah, famous Egyptian blogger and political …

Although ignorance can be laughable, it has a frightening role in society.

I saw somewhere that George Orwell once said, “every joke is a tiny revolution.” In the last week of this current wave of up rise throughout the Arab world, it has been the humour in social protest that has fascinated, and perhaps even confused, me. What role do these comedic characters play?

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Is Bollywood really Indian cinema? We all know Bollywood is a big industry and to an extent has protected us from Hollywood films. But has it also helped us relegate other Indian films to the …

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The Small Media Initiative invites submission of abstracts for its 2011 Small Media Symposium to be held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London on 8 – 9 …

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As I sit here breathless in London, flicking channels between Al Jazeera English, BBC, CNN and France 24, in anxiety and excitement to see what Hosni Mubarak will announce within the hour, I look back …