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...from certain that Nour's release heralds an easing of the regime's pressure on opponents and critics. Within the last two weeks, for example, Egyptian state security agents reportedly detained and held without charge for four days an Egyptian-German blogger, Philip Rizk, who had protested what he saw as the regime's inadequate support of Paletinians during the recent Gaza conflict with Israel. Human Rights Watch has denounced Egypt's "appalling domestic rights record," citing alleged "torture in police stations, arbitrary arrests of non-violent dissidents and crippling restrictions on civil society organizations." Rights groups have also criticized...
...school this fall for an additional semester are just now celebrating the end of their theses and the completion of their undergraduate careers. “I feel mostly like a 2005 class member come back to finish my thesis for three months,” said David W. Rizk ’05, who is an English and American Literature and Language concentrator. Because these “super seniors” remain at Harvard after most of their class graduates, they must strike a balance between remaining loyal to their original 2005 classmates and assimilating into the Class...
...peculiar things about filmmaking in the Ivy League,” Rizk says, “is that none of the schools have film schools, so they teach an expressionistic sort of filmmaking and not an industrial sort, which makes the students not very competitive in national competitions. The Ivy Film Festival is designed to cater to the types of programs that exist at these schools...
...Rizk says that Horovitz’s experience is what the Ivy Film Festival is all about. “There are no serious prizes associated with it,” he says. “I’d encourage people to submit and come because the benefit is mostly in seeing your film in the context of other people’s filmmaking...
According to Rizk, there is a chance that in the future the festival will move around, which could mean that Harvard might host it in years to come. “If Harvard showed an interest in developing its filmmaking and film studies programs it could get off the ground,” he says. “I mean, look at JD Connor’s [’92] class on Hollywood and Elvis Mitchell’s class on film criticism. They’re really popular, and I think for very good reason...