Waltz with Bashir is both an incredible screen animation and graphic novel depicting Ari Folman’s quest to rediscover his lost memories from the massacre of Palestinians in Beirut during 1982.
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, [...]

The Facts:
More than 90,000 are believed to have been killed during conflict with a further 200,000 thought to have died from conflict related causes (estimates of the total death toll thus far ranges between 300,000 – 450,000);
A further 2.7 million people are said to be displaced living in camps for refugees or internally displaced people [...]

I’ve recently finished reading a book about a translator, a tribesman in Darfur caught up in the violence when his village was destroyed by helicopter gunships in 2003, when ‘the Sudanese government-backed militias came to murder, rape and burn’ and drive the tribesmen from their lands. The Translator, his name Daoud Hari, is a Zaghawi who [...]

Here are a couple of really interesting videos by Erin, a stroke victim at 29 in recovery. In the first video you hear her explaining her ‘Alien Hand Syndrome’ and watch as she tries to control her left hand’s activity with her right. Two years later she is still partially sighted and struggling to gain [...]