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...actors, critical essays, and other features on cinema. Its subject matter ranges from independent, art-house films—Whitaker’s personal preference—to Oscar contenders and other blockbusters.“The idea is to produce a scholarly account of film, to offer a platform where students, professors, and professionals can all contribute,” Whitaker says. During her tenure as president, Whitaker articulated that vision and used it to substantially strengthen the content and staff of a magazine that Bruce Jenkins, former curator of the Harvard Film Archive, has called...
...Safe, legal, and rare” has been the rallying cry of the modern pro-choice movement since the days of President Bill Clinton. This phrase is etched in the Democratic Party platform, broadcasted on televised debates, and witnessed in signs demanding that Roe v. Wade remain the law of the land. However, keeping abortion safe and legal seems much more consistent with the pro-choice position than ensuring that the procedure is rare. Why exactly is this curious third word included in the abortion catchphrase...
...Iraqi instrument. Hassan M. H. Al-Damluji, a second-year graduate student in Middle Eastern Studies and president of the Harvard Middle Eastern Cultural Association, and undergraduate Tamara Jafar ’09 organized the event. Al-Damluji said that his goals were to provide Iraqi filmmakers with a platform for their work and to raise awareness about issues such as the state of refugees and higher education in Iraq. “Iraq is in danger of dropping from people’s minds,” Al-Damluji said. The screenings were free of charge, but organizers said...
...choice politicians, although he did call their actions a "scandal." Nor did he deliver a major dressing-down of liberal Catholic educators that some had anticipated during his visit to Washington's Catholic University, although he did present some interesting philosophical arguments that could have served as a platform for harsher critique...
...film features personal accounts of the Iraq-Iran War and the hardships faced during the American-led sanctions of 1991-2003, which Antoon refers to as “genocidal.”Overall, Al-Damluji and Antoon both hope that Contemporary Iraqi Film will serve as a platform to present issues not normally addressed by the mainstream American media. “After five years of war and hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars, Americans know very little about Iraq and Iraqis beyond the depressingly simplistic,” Antoon says. “It?...