MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Zero Units and extrajudicial executions
Kill or Capture: Inside the CIA’s Secret Afghan Army
Joe Glenton (left) interviewing the families of those killed by the Zero Units
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MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
WITH the ongoing war in Afghanistan seemingly of little interest to much of the British media, journalist Joe Glenton’s new documentary is very welcome.
Having served in Kandahar with the British army in 2006 before going Awol and refusing to fight in the war, Glenton returns to Afghanistan to try to uncover the truth about shadowy death squads operating in the country.
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