Nine-year-old Lamia is obliged by her school to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein, and meets a series of vivid characters as she shops for sanctioned ingredients
There’s a terrific charm and swe…
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Nine-year-old Lamia is obliged by her school to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein, and meets a series of vivid characters as she shops for sanctioned ingredients
There’s a terrific charm and swe…
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Warm, funny and heartbreaking, The President’s Cake tells the story of a brutal ruler and a girl forced to make him a present in a time of sanctions-induced hardship. Its Iraqi director Hasan Hadi re…
65 days ago
As crowds attack newspaper offices and violence has killed 184 people, the optimism around Sheikh Hasina’s overthrow has dimmed
The sounds of a mob were already audible when Zyma Islam hit send on her…
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Hadi Matar was convicted of attempted murder for 2022 attack that left writer blind in his right eye
The man found guilty of attempted murder of Salman Rushdie has been sentenced to 25 years in prison…
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Hadi Matar was convicted over 2022 attack in western New York that left author partially blinded
Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded the novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a New York…
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