In the end, our attempts at understanding may ultimately be in vain. Even Muslim women cannot clearly articulate, and listen to, their own quandaries and dilemmas.
The opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was directed by the world-famous Oscar-nominated Chinese film director, Zhang Yimou. His exquisitely shot films show young brides, concubines, and peasant women consumed by the monolithic forces that these women find themselves in.
Muslims have made remarkable inroads into our societies using simple visual strategies. Unless we want to become what they want us to become, which is Muslim countries, now is the time to reverse those steps.
There is nothing more fundamental in Christianity than the cross. Two simple lines intersecting one another provide one of the most powerful symbols in the visual history of mankind.
In an era when gratuitous violence, extreme, incredible violence, is coated malignantly with the pill of aesthetics, Geert Wilders’ ''Fitna'' hasstruck the right chord.
Our war is a war on culture, that we seem to be losing. Our transgression is that we no longer believe in our common sense, and our common heritage, and cannot project our cultural legacy into the future.
There nothing that spikes the interest more than a true story retold. Especially if the story is about crime and its consequences. Such is the tale of a recent movie, ''American Gangster.''
Kidist Paulos Asrat is a filmmaker, photographer, and artist. She also writes reviews and articles on art, society, and culture.
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