Do you remember what you are burning?
Animal trafficking: a major concern in the UAE
Sleeping together on the same bed, Mariam would wake up in the morning to her baby tiger licking up her face. Mariam El Suwaidi, an Emirati business student, had the chance to cuddle and play with her own tiger cub in Dubai, although in 2016, the UAE introduced a federal law no. 22 banning the trade and ownership of dangerous and semi-dangerous animals.
Edward Said: Out of Place
“All families invent their parents and children, give each of them a story, character, fate, and even a language…Yet the overriding sensation I had was of always being out of place,” with these words Edward Said began his memoir Out of Place triggering readers’ curiosity to dive deep in the memories of a lost boy, who found himself roaming in the world without a clear identity.
Waltz with Bashir
In 2008 Ari Folman, an Israeli Filmmaker produced an animated documentary recalling Sabra and Shatila, the massacre that will never be forgotten; especially by Arabs. As in 1982, Lebanese Christian phalanges entered the Palestinian Sabra and Shatila refugee camp at night, while the Israelis were backing them and covering for them.