“Assud” means “lion”, but it is also the name of a man-sized cartoony rabbit in the Palestinian children’s TV show Tomorrow’s Pioneers. Not unlike the more famous previous mouse Farfour, he details his search for “‘martyrdom” and promises to “eat the Jews” on air. But because that isn’t strange enough for this universe, a British studio audience actually applauded Assud on Channel 4′s most recent installment of comedy show You Have Been Watching.
Monthly Archive for May, 2010
This week, Jacques Rancière is coming to Munich as a guest of the Flaubert Centre at Munich University. If you’re local, make sure not to miss his lecture on “The Time of the Plebeian“. If you’re not local and haven’t done so yet, consider picking up one of his books and delving into his fascinating and important view of politics, ethics, and aesthetics and their interdependence in various ages and cultures.
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