MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Bitter-sweet Jaffa dance doc
MARIA DUARTE recommends a film on a unique project uniting Jews and Israeli Arabs
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
Dancing in Jaffa (PG), directed by Hilla Medalia
EVERY autumn Strictly Come Dancing fever grips the nation, uniting both young and old, so could ballroom dancing — in a very different setting — be the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
That is the idealistic notion of renowned ballroom champion Pierre Dulaine who returned to his birthplace of Jaffa in Israel to fulfill a lifelong dream of teaching Jewish and Israeli Arab children to dance together.
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