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Interview with film-maker Michal Kosakowski

Naked Punch Contributing Editor and founder of Shoppinghour magazine Peter Eramian interviews Michal Kosakowski. Peter: Three movies that I’d like to discuss: “Just Like the Movies”, “The Heart of It” and “Fortynine”. In “Just Like the Movies” you basically reconstruct September 11th using footage from Hollywood blockbusters. This seems to me to be a statement about the fictionalization of certain political…

ByMichal KosakowskiFebruary 7, 20240Comments

The Trouble with House Arrest

One problem with house arrest is that you never quite know who’s in-charge. Or what you’ve been charged with. Or how the situation will be resolved. Between prisoner and jailor, who has the greater power? Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, Zhao Zhiyang in China, Habib Bourgouiba in Tunisia, Sukarno in Indonesia, Mossadeq and Ayatollah Hossein-Ali…

ByAvidya MuniFebruary 7, 20240Comments

Those Struggling for a Different Pakistan

I. Prologue Pakistan is in a state of crisis. The history of Pakistan, looked at from a human perspective, has been a perpetual crisis since its birth. The ruling elite have operated -- from the very beginning -- on cronyism, nepotism, and legal and illegal corruption. They have always been inefficient and indifferent to the…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 7, 20240Comments

The survival of Art in an image-saturated era

The survival of Art in an image-saturated era Introduction The advent of Photography and Film undoubtedly changed our perception of Art forever. What was once static representation, secluded within the walls of the museum, became motion and action in front of the eyes of TV and cinema´s massive audiences. At the time, art theorists had…

ByVeronica PamoukaghlianFebruary 7, 20240Comments

Contribute to Naked Punch On-line

'Naked Punch Review is looking for fresh voices in poetry, art and film criticism, philosophy and anything else that you think may interest our readers. We would welcome your submission for our on-line version. There is no limit in terms of words and form from our side except the technical limit of presenting material on-line.…

ByNaked PunchFebruary 7, 20240Comments

The Withered State

Disaster is the only news of the day. It was providential that a sinkhole has opened up in Guatemala. It is 100-feet deep with a circular chasm of 66 feet. An act of nature, it is felt, is so much easier to deal with than the many, too many acts of human despoliation. Oil plumes…

ByVijay PrashadFebruary 7, 20240Comments

Landscapes of the Green Line of Cyprus: Healing the Rift.

Landscapes of the Green Line of Cyprus: Healing the Rift. From a deep wound to a beautiful scar. The UN controlled Green Line occupies approximately 3% of the land mass of the island of Cyprus. Frozen in a military status quo for the past 35 years, this strip of land swallows up abandoned…

ByDr. Anna GrichtingFebruary 7, 20240Comments

A Cypriot’s Problem, or How Not to Deal with Existential Anxiety

A Cypriot’s Problem, or How Not to Deal with Existential Anxiety What’s our problem? What’s in a problem? There is an old joke that participants to Cyprus conflict seminars probably heard more than once. It pokes fun at a peculiar Cypriot fixation, still highly topical, and goes like this. Three men are sentenced to death in a…

ByCostas DouzinasFebruary 7, 20240Comments

Beirut Diary

Beirut Diary, April 2010 Walking into Beirut this spring was like walking into history. Not ancient history, necessarily, but the history of the city which is the history of Lebanon, pulled apart between “western” and “eastern” poles. Being in the city evokes the memory of people who lived there. Writers, intellectuals, activists, and artists from all…

ByMagid ShihadeFebruary 7, 20240Comments

Aid is not a substitute for politics : unmaking Gaza as a humanitarian casualty

“The occupied territories have the dubious distinction of having become a failed state before even becoming a state.” (International Crisis Group, 2007). The international spotlight is back on Gaza. Israel’s 31st May attack on the six-ship flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip has dominated news headlines in the West and beyond; from…

ByAisha MFebruary 7, 20240Comments