Ethiopia’s ‘jihadi’ film and its boomerang effects By Awol K Alo; March 5, 2013 On February 5, 2013, Ethiopia’s only and publicly Muslims in Ethiopia have been protesting the government’s control of the A joint production of the Ethiopian National Security With dozens of journalists, politicians and activists Making fiction intelligible Made to portray the Muslim community’s struggle for To amplify this new reality, that is, the cinematic
Just because the protest movement shares the antecedent There are temporal, spatial, material and editorial One excellent example is a hinge the film uses to While the reduction of such complex and In an article that examined the increasing role of By editing conversations about conversations, Instead of generating a moral panic that serves as the Boomerang effects The film, along with the ongoing trial, offers an Muslims in Ethiopia, who conceive their religious Because of the events of last year, there emerged a Awol K Allo,
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