Editor Selection

“History is written by men.”  This also applies to film history.  Guy-Blache was one of the first female filmmakers to direct movies during the origins of cinema itself.

An Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) police stands guard next to an Afghanistan flag at a guard post of a police camp in Now Zad district in Helmand province, southwestern Afghanistan November 6, 2012. © […]

HRW – My almost 2-year-old daughter fell on her head in a Washington, DC Starbucks, and it made me think of the children I met in Afghanistan just weeks before.  I was there to meet with civilian […]

The Guardian – The director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Last Men in Aleppo speaks of ‘trauma and paranoia’ over the extreme lengths some are taking to stop him from telling the truth. On 4 March, the […]

VOA NEWS – BEIRUT, LEBANON — Within the confines of Lebanon’s Roumieh prison they gathered together as men recounting lives led before they became seen as terrorists. Inmates whose affiliations spanned across Islamic State (IS) and a […]

Linguistic diversity and multilingualism: keystones of sustainability and peace On International Mother Language Day 2018, celebrated every year on 21 February, UNESCO reiterates its commitment to linguistic diversity and invites its Member States to celebrate […]

In connection with the registration of war victims’ complaints with the International Criminal Court to address war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Afghanistan since May 2003.

Ingmar Bergman’s spellbinding films made his female stars immortal. But they weren’t all grateful. Could this famously manipulative genius have survived in the #MeToo era?

Analysis finds proportion of female authors and characters fell after 19th century, with male authors remaining ‘remarkably resistant’ to writing women.