Showcasing some of the best Documentaries and Talk Shows
Tue 29 October 2019: Child victims of abuse by a Catholic priest call on New York City’s most influential cleric to remove him from ministry. In a series of exclusive interviews with Fault Lines, several men across New York City come forward with painful memories of abuse by a Catholic priest. They say that Father John […]
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Tell the World: The Silent Plight of China’s Uighurs How mass detention camps and heavy surveillance in Xinjiang are affecting Uighurs not just in China but also abroad. Filmmaker: Sophie McNeill Most members of the Australian Uighur community are missing someone. They all say they have a family member detained, imprisoned or trapped in what the Chinese […]
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A Muslim schoolgirl fights prejudice and patriarchy with every punch. Muslim schoolgirl Fareeha dreams of becoming a martial arts champion. Her school started teaching the Chinese martial art, wushu, because of growing concerns about violence against women in India. Now, after qualifying for an Indian national tournament, Fareeha has her goal firmly in sight. But her […]
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Fri 18 October 2019: “Entertainment is part of our American diplomacy,” US President Barack Obama told a crowd at a DreamWorks Animation facility. In 2013, it was the Hollywood production Iron Man 3 that made the biggest splash globally, bringing in over $1bn at the box office. In fact, the top 500 grossing films of […]
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Thu 03 October 2019: Iraq’s barely year old government is being forced to deal with the largest nationwide protests since taking over. Riot police contained demonstrators in Baghdad on Wednesday, 24 hours after bullets and tear gas were fired. At least three people died and hundreds of others were injured in Baghdad as well as […]
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Tue 01 October 2019: Tariq Ramadan is recognised by many as the most prominent Islamic studies academic in the Western world. But at the height of the #MeToo movement in 2017, Ramadan was forced to take leave from his post as Oxford University’s Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies over sexual assault allegations. He denied the […]
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Wed 18 September 2019: Kashmir has been under a strict lockdown ever since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stripped the state of its autonomy in August 2019. But repression in Kashmir isn’t new. Since partition in 1947, Kashmir has faced heavy militarization, brutal crackdowns and communication blackouts. Why have Indian governments attempted to squash dissent […]
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Tue 10 September 2019: In this special edition of The Listening Post, we focus on Xinjiang’s detention camps and examine how Uighur journalists, Chinese state media, and “open-source” researchers have covered the story. How China spins the Xinjiang story to the Chinese It is not clear how many people are currently being held against their […]
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Wed 28 August 2019: Weeks after India initiated its ongoing military crackdown and communications blackout in Kashmir, activist Kavita Krishnan says that Islamophobia has played a “huge role” in justifying India’s encroachments on the region’s autonomy. “What they are doing is that they are projecting this victory over Kashmir, this triumph over this rebellious Muslim […]
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Wed 28 August 2019: Since India enforced a crackdown on the disputed territory of Kashmir on Aug. 5, people in the region have been under a severe communications lockdown and experienced shortages of food and medicine. Kashmiri women and girls have expressed particular anger about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statements implying that the change in […]
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