After twelve years in New York, Elia Suleiman returned to his native Nazareth to make this subtle, witty, documentary-based comedy of life in internal exile as an Israeli Arab.

NEWYORKER: Chronicle of a Disappearance

From then on he endured internal exile in three different locations, followed by a lowly position at court which enabled Nicholas I, the new tsar, to function as Pushkin's personal censor while flirting with his new young wife.

ECONOMIST: Russian writers