Category archives for: Arts & Culture

Book Review: Palestine Betrayed

Palestine Betrayed is a hoax — one that speaks the truth, yet conceals much more than it reveals, and creates a ‘neo-revisionist’ canard about the Palestinian expulsion.

Filming Action and Martial Arts in 3D Creates Both Challenges and Opportunities

A martial arts fight in 3D

3D is the radio of the 2000’s. People always said I had a great face for radio, and now I am putting it to work.

Book Review: Letters from Palestine

Letters from Palestine – Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the power of Nonviolence. Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah. Wheatmark, Tucson, AZ, USA. 2010. Kenneth Ring’s writing on Palestine has already received just praise, as it is another in a series of recently published works that cry from the heart of Palestine.* [...]

Martial Arts 3D Video Filming

Antonio Graceffo fights for a 3D martial arts film.

Watching the proof of our 3D martial arts fight on a video monitor was incredible. The spinning, dancing, battling images popped off the screen like holograms in some advanced video game, but it wasn’t a random CGI image, it was me. And it was one of the coolest projects I had ever been involved with. [...]

The Karate Kid, Then and Now

I just saw “The Karate Kid 2010” tonight in Bangkok, and I feel like I am 43 going on 16. I have one of those feel-great movie highs that prompts you to make life altering decisions, which you will never follow through on when you wake up with a hangover. But for those brief moments [...]

Review: Israeli Exceptionalism – The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism

Israeli Exceptionalism lucidly encapsulates in its relatively short 220-page narrative the essential aspects of the Zionist movement, showing how it has been able to rapidly advance from its birth to regional dominance.

Quicksand – America’s Pursuit of Power in the Middle East

The rest of Wawro’s story, before becoming stuck in his own analytical quicksand, is very well written. Put simply, without going into a lot of quotes and references, the U.S. has acted through arrogance, ignorance, and political domestic expediency.

Silat Kalam: Islamic Martial Art

Photo courtesy of Antonio Graceffo

Silat Kalam takes the position to teach people to know each other, love each other, and to learn self-defense. Practicing Kalam softens your kindness toward human beings. There is no more quarrel. And that is how God teaches us to be all of the time.

Citizen: Being a Gazan

destroyed houses

Gaza has been in the spotlight for the last couple of weeks in connection with the Freedom to Gaza Flotilla movement and Israel’s illegal and immoral response to it. There is no denial to the fact that the siege imposed by Israel for the last three years has worsened the humanitarian situation in the Gaza [...]

A Warrior’s Odyssey – Interview with Antonio Graceffo

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My martial arts odyssey, while having a central theme of martial arts, has been my attempt to live up to the spirit of adventure and great literary prowess of my idols.

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