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Two Recent Novels Offer Differing Insights into the Sri Lankan Refugee Experience
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Two Recent Novels Offer Differing Insights into the Sri Lankan Refugee Experience

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 / 22 May 2018

Powerful novels The Boat People and Brixton Beach, both tackling the Sri Lankan refugee experience but from profoundly different angles, are eminently enjoyable reads but they're more than that: they're important reads.

Is Clint Eastwood’s ‘The 15.17 to Paris’ a Rare Experimental Hollywood Film?
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Is Clint Eastwood’s ‘The 15.17 to Paris’ a Rare Experimental Hollywood Film?

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 / 12 February 2018

Despite its conservative attitudes, The 15.17 to Paris is as radical in its way as Eastwood's more progressive films.

How Should We Respond to Terrorism?
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How Should We Respond to Terrorism?

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 / 15 September 2015
After the Paris Attacks is a collection of research that moves away from the US to look at Canadian and European debates over terrorism.
September 11, 2001, Is Said to Be the Most Photographed Disaster in History
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September 11, 2001, Is Said to Be the Most Photographed Disaster in History

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 / 14 January 2015
9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster examines the tremulous memory effects of the destruction of the World Trade Center.
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‘My Trip to Al-Qaeda’: A Little too Much of Lawrence Wright, A Little too Little of His Subjects

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 / 14 October 2012
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‘United Red Army’: Revolutionaries Lost Without a Map

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 / 8 February 2012
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‘Millennium People’: The Middle Class Catastrophe

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 / 4 August 2011
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‘Four Lions’ With a Ridiculous Roar

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 / 8 May 2011
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‘The Weekend’: Terrorism Without Any Terror

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 / 8 February 2011
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‘The Oath’: American Intelligence Gets it Wrong

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 / 26 October 2010
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The German Issue: Still Straddling the Berlin Wall

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 / 7 March 2010
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The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege … And How We Can Be Safe Again by Tom Ridge

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 / 5 January 2010