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Dag Johan Haugerud @ Berlinale 2025
With his Oslo trilogy "Love", "Dreams" and "Sex", Dag Johan Haugerud has created a cinematic, literary and sociological marvel that is as intelligent as it is moving
Gilles Kepel, perhaps the most renowned French expert on the Middle East, published an updated edition of his book on the Hamas massacre of over 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023 and its aftermath
"Cave 72", Fann Attiki's political satire about life and death in Brazzaville is also a disturbing and universally relevant portrait of a society held hostage by populism and dictatorship.
In her coming-of-age novel "The Age of Umbrage", Jessica Zafra creates a gripping portrait of Philippine society under the Marcos regime that is frighteningly contemporary - and also universal
Representatives of the participating states at the Bandung Conference, April 18-24, 1955 (front left Gamal Abd el Nasser and right Jawaharlal Nehru)
70 years after the Bandung Conference, Jan C. Jansen and Jürgen Ostermann present an updated edition of "Decolonization: The End of Empires" - at a time when a dangerous neo-imperialism is powerfully rearing its head
In her historical novel "The Great Divide", Cristina Henríquez weaves a series of smaller stories into a comprehensive picture of the "Panama Canal" project of the last century, which continues to divide the double continent to this day