Issue 18 People of Hope – Sublime https://sublimemagazine.com Inspiration for a Sustainable World Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:56:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/sublimemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sublime_Logo.jpeg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Issue 18 People of Hope – Sublime https://sublimemagazine.com 32 32 243252845 BFI 53rd London Film Festival https://sublimemagazine.com/bfi-53rd-london-film-festival/ https://sublimemagazine.com/bfi-53rd-london-film-festival/#respond Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:52:03 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/bfi-53rd-london-film-festival/ AJAMI A collaboration between Israeli Director Yaron Shani and Palestinian Scandar Copti, Ajami tells the story of a Jaffa neighbourhood rife with tension amid a hostile mix of Muslim, Jewish and Christian families and local gangs. The story is narrated by Nasri (Fouad Habash), a teenage boy whose family’s life is turned upside down when his...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/bfi-53rd-london-film-festival/feed/ 0 12349 The Snow Tourist https://sublimemagazine.com/the-snow-tourist/ https://sublimemagazine.com/the-snow-tourist/#respond Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:32:44 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/the-snow-tourist/ Journalist Charlie English’s search for ‘the world’s purest, deepest snowfall’ is in part a quest for that precious memory of something lost, intrinsic to both the man and his culture. Putting on hold a busy job in London, he leaves his wife and children for one last journey of freedom before the inevitability of settling...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/the-snow-tourist/feed/ 0 12379 The Secret Life of the Universe https://sublimemagazine.com/the-secret-life-of-the-universe/ https://sublimemagazine.com/the-secret-life-of-the-universe/#respond Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/the-secret-life-of-the-universe/ This ambitious book attempts to investigate that connectivity between us, our world and the entire universe; her hypothesis being that this connectivity, once the domain of religious faith, is now under close scrutiny from science. Accordingly, Corzine sets out the principal theories of philosophers and physicists from antiquity to the present day, bringing in quantum and theoretical physics,...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/the-secret-life-of-the-universe/feed/ 0 12382 Blood Matters https://sublimemagazine.com/blood-matters-a-journey-along-the-genetic-frontier/ https://sublimemagazine.com/blood-matters-a-journey-along-the-genetic-frontier/#respond Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/blood-matters-a-journey-along-the-genetic-frontier/ With staggering courage, she comes to terms with the loss of her mother aged only 49, while embarking on a quest to learn as much as she can about genetics. Knowing that the flaw in her own genetic make-up will probably kill her, Gessen’s journey into the subject, brilliantly structured in sections of Past, Present and Future,...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/blood-matters-a-journey-along-the-genetic-frontier/feed/ 0 12385 My Natural Habitat https://sublimemagazine.com/my-natural-habitat/ https://sublimemagazine.com/my-natural-habitat/#respond Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/my-natural-habitat/ November 09: the Gucci Group – owners of designer brands Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen and Balenciaga – announces that all the paper used in the company, from copy paper to shopping bags, will not be sourced from endangered forests in countries like Indonesia.   For a company the size of Gucci to commit to...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/my-natural-habitat/feed/ 0 12077 Just War? https://sublimemagazine.com/just-war/ https://sublimemagazine.com/just-war/#respond Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/just-war/ War is millennia old. The oldest-recorded war, c. 2525 BC, between the ancient Sumerian city-states of Lagash and Umma, is depicted on the Stele of Vultures, which shows soldiers organised in phalanx formation with spears, helmets and shields – and war was not new even then. Archaeological evidence points to earlier wars, predating the invention...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/just-war/feed/ 0 12080 Child’s Play https://sublimemagazine.com/childs-play/ https://sublimemagazine.com/childs-play/#respond Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/childs-play/ One of my favourite quotes I was lucky enough to hear in person. It was imparted by one of my favourite people: David Attenborough, the famous naturalist and owner of a voice that sends women over 60 weak at the knees – at least in my mother’s case. Asked when he first became interested in...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/childs-play/feed/ 0 12082 Hoping Against Hope https://sublimemagazine.com/hoping-against-hope/ https://sublimemagazine.com/hoping-against-hope/#respond Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/hoping-against-hope/   Every couple of months we Sublime regular contributors get an email from the lovely editor that contains a theme or statement that is intended to stimulate us to produce our column. This time it went: The theme of the November issue is People of Hope. People of Hope will talk about ‘changemakers’, the raising...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/hoping-against-hope/feed/ 0 12074 Dancing On The Ceiling https://sublimemagazine.com/dancing-on-the-ceiling/ https://sublimemagazine.com/dancing-on-the-ceiling/#respond Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/dancing-on-the-ceiling/ Governments and businesses are letting people down left, right and centre. They have brought the world to the brink of utter financial disaster by unleashing virtually unregulated trading powers, motivated by greed, in the false belief that free markets know best.

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