Contributor Nadira Begum

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In Praise Of

Remembering Souleymane Cissé: An Uncompromising Pioneer of African Cinema

by Nadira Begum

A trailblazer on the global cinema stage as well as in his home of Mali, Souleymane Cissé's cinema of imagination changed the world.
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In Praise Of

How 10 Things I Hate About You made Shakespeare hot property

by Nadira Begum

25 years ago, Gil Junger's spiky teen romance reinvented The Taming of the Shrew – and made Shakespeare cool again.

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