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...Abbas' photographs are often informed by a sense of menace - the hazy vision of a U.S. soldier patrolling Afghanistan's crumbling capital at dawn; the disturbing picture of a child in Thailand wearing an Osama bin Laden T shirt - but the book ends on a note of hope. In its final image, two smiling children in Zanzibar take a mock photo of the photographer using a coconut camera. If the book is driven by a question, Abbas' answer is far from simple...
...fiction films. Mograbi will visit the Harvard Film Archive on Sunday, Sep. 20 to give a lecture accompanying a screening of his most recent film, “Z32.” “Z32,” which is based on the confession of an Israeli soldier, describes his involvement in the revenge slayings of two Palestinian police officers. The title refers to the incident’s file number, the story of which Mograbi found in the archives of an organization that collects testimonies from ex-Israeli soldiers. In this film, Mograbi, who is also the narrator...
...telling their youths to take up arms against the foreign invaders, as their fathers did back in the 1980s against the Red Army. In Tahkt-e-Pul, on the edges of Kandahar city, an influential mullah recently refused to preside over the funeral of a dead Afghan government soldier, a local boy; meanwhile a Taliban, who died fighting the Americans or the British, was honored as a brave martyr. It is a disturbing change among Afghans who in 2001, after the benighted years of the Taliban, welcomed foreigners bringing aid and progress...
...Bragg as well as Camp Lejeune, a Marine base near the coast. "There are a lot of ways you could describe the benefits of doing mind training and meditation. Maybe from a civilian approach we would emphasize cultivating happiness or peace. But that's not generally what a young soldier is interested in. They want to become the best warrior they can be." (Read a story on the health benefits of meditation...
...Weeks Later”) leads the film’s fictionalized diffusing team with a stunning performance as Sergeant First Class William James, a bomb-man with a death wish. The plot, essentially composed of almost journalistic vignettes, traces the ups and downs of everyday soldier life. Even the most banal serves as a suspenseful contrast to ticking bombs and explosions. When James confuses a dead boy’s bomb-strapped body for the young Iraqi kid he’d befriended, his reaction is both sincere and destructive—like no shortage of other situations in Iraq...