Lipika Pelham https://lipikapelham.com Lipika Pelham is the author of Passing Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:56:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.12 https://lipikapelham.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/LP.ico Lipika Pelham https://lipikapelham.com 32 32 Conversations Across Place https://lipikapelham.com/books/conversations-across-place/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=conversations-across-place Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:57:23 +0000 https://lipikapelham.com/?p=777 The post Conversations Across Place appeared first on Lipika Pelham.

]]> Passing https://lipikapelham.com/books/passing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=passing Mon, 02 Nov 2020 18:15:05 +0000 https://lipikapelham.com/?p=62 An Alternative History of Identity

Lipika Pelham reflects on tales of fluidity and transformation, including her own. From Pope Joan to Parasite, Brazil to Bangladesh, London to Liberia, Passing is a fascinating, timely history of the self.

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]]> Jerusalem on the Amstel https://lipikapelham.com/books/jerusalem-on-the-amstel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jerusalem-on-the-amstel Mon, 01 Apr 2019 12:18:07 +0000 https://lipikapelham.com/?p=70 A fascinating history of Amsterdam’s unlikely Jewish ‘Nation’.
This is the extraordinary tale of Amsterdam’s prosperous Sephardi community during the Dutch Golden Age. It offers poignant reflection on the meaning of nationhood, the Holocaust and what remains of Jerusalem on the Amstel.

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]]> Shame https://lipikapelham.com/documentaries/shame/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shame Sun, 05 Nov 2017 12:30:23 +0000 https://lipikapelham.com/?p=280 Lipika Pelham travels to a remote part of south eastern Bangladesh to report on claims of human rights abuses against indigenous Buddhist minorities of the area.

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]]> The Unlikely Settler https://lipikapelham.com/books/the-unlikely-settler/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-unlikely-settler Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:16:04 +0000 https://lipikapelham.com/?p=64 The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seen by an outsider who craves to make sense of herself and the city she lives in.

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]]> Land for the Nomads https://lipikapelham.com/documentaries/land-for-the-nomads/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=land-for-the-nomads Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:17:09 +0000 https://lipikapelham.com/?p=68 Israel says that it is planning to remove and relocate 2300 Bedouins from the Judean desert, east of Jerusalem.

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]]> Deadly Honour https://lipikapelham.com/documentaries/deadly-honour/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=deadly-honour Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:16:40 +0000 https://lipikapelham.com/?p=66 Narrated by a 15-year old girl, Salma, based on a real life survivor of honour killing, ‘Deadly Honour’ documents multiple murders and attempted murders of young women in the Israeli city of Ramle.

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