Category: Review

The Dune where hunger games met game of the thrones, missing the spider man by Thanos Kalamidas

March 9, 2024

So, I was …Duned!I didn’t understand 30% of the film because it was in tongues that didn’t exist in Frank Herbert’s book. In Dune book saga there is NOT even a hint for a Caladan (Atreidis home planet) language, or Giedi (Harkonnen home planet) language and I have no idea why Denis Villeneuve felt that … More The Dune where hunger games met game of the thrones, missing the spider man by Thanos Kalamidas

Book Review: Rohingya of the Arakan: Conflict, Crisis and Solutionsby Nurul Islam (The Other Press, Kuala Lumpur, Paperback, 1st ed., 2022) by Habib Siddiqui

September 11, 2023

The Rohingyas of Myanmarare a stateless people who are denied citizenship rights intheBuddhist-majority Myanmarsimply because of their distinct ‘otherness’ in race, culture, and religion. As a result, nearly 2.5 million Rohingyas, representing roughly 75% of the community, now live as refugees in various parts of our world. Those living inside Myanmar are treated as an … More Book Review: Rohingya of the Arakan: Conflict, Crisis and Solutionsby Nurul Islam (The Other Press, Kuala Lumpur, Paperback, 1st ed., 2022) by Habib Siddiqui

A Museum Dedicated to The World’s Bestselling Book by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-11-23

May 11, 2022

A new museum opened its door in Washington, DC, after three years of construction. It is a state-of-the-art institution dedicated not to art or artifacts but to a book, namely the Bible, or the world’s bestselling book. According to its director Steve Green, a billionaire evangelical Christian, owner of Hobby Lobby which recently illegaly smuggled … More A Museum Dedicated to The World’s Bestselling Book by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-11-23

The nexus between Democracy and Religion by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-11-12

May 11, 2022

The attentive reader will have surely noticed that one of my most passionate intellectual concerns, dealt with in my contributions to Ovi magazine, over a span of some ten years, is that of “the nexus between religion and democracy,” or more generally, religion and politics. I am pleased to announce to the readership interested in … More The nexus between Democracy and Religion by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-11-12

Why in the Opinion of 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Donald Trump Represents a Clear and Present Danger by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-10-06

May 4, 2022

Noam Chomsky and other academic experts on mental health have recently published a book titled The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump and subtitled Twenty seven Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. It is edited and put together by Bandy Lee, M.D., who organized the Yale University Conference on the “Duty to Warn.” The … More Why in the Opinion of 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Donald Trump Represents a Clear and Present Danger by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-10-06

A Forthcoming Book by Dr. Paparella on the Nexus between Democracy and Religion by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-09-08

May 3, 2022

The attentive reader will have surely noticed that one of my most passionate intellectual concerns, dealt with in my contributions to Ovi magazine, over a span of some ten years, is that of “the nexus between religion and democracy,” or more generally, religion and politics. I am pleased to announce to the readership interested in … More A Forthcoming Book by Dr. Paparella on the Nexus between Democracy and Religion by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-09-08

13 Reasons Why you should feel guilty by Katerina Charisi 2021-02-23

May 3, 2022

Something often said to inexperienced writers in creative writing lessons when they ask what to write about, is “since you survived puberty, you have stories to write for the rest of your life”. See, puberty is an actual battle and what matters is to come out in one piece. I mean seriously, has anyone ever … More 13 Reasons Why you should feel guilty by Katerina Charisi 2021-02-23

To Wake in Fright by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-06-20

March 20, 2022

What is inescapable in the Australian landscape is its cosmic character, one that mixes suggestively astral dust with the brilliance of the blinding sun. Desolate, parched earth becomes poetic affirmation, though it is the poetry of death and distraction, its stanzas luring the life from you. Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971), based on the … More To Wake in Fright by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-06-20