The Guardian

Compassionate Incarceration

by Edwin James for The Guardian

Sunday 24 February 2013

A convict works on Bastoy prison farm. Photograph: Marco Di Lauro

Hamada Ben-Amor: Tunisian Rapper

In the week before the downfall of the Tunisian president, 30 plain-clothes police officers arrived at the family home of Hamada Ben-Amor in the coastal city of Sfax and arrested him.

I'm not immune to the lure of celebrity gossip, but it harms us to read this bilge

Hear no evil: Keira Knightley in The Children's Hour, a play about that hinges on the dangers of gossip. Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Juliano Mer-Khamis: 100% Palestinian, 100% Jewish

The Actor Created a Theater in Jenin but was killed for his ideals

Conal Urquhart for the Guardian| The Observer, 10 April 2011