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Monthly Archives: September, 2006

Naguib Mahfouz: a farewell tribute

Trevor Le Gassick | Open Democracy | 1 Sept 2006 The great Cairo novelist illuminated a century’s changes in Egypt and other Arab lands. His loss is also the world’s, … Continue reading

3 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Making of Issa: A Child of the Israeli Invasion

By Rana El-Khatib | Counterpunch | September 2 / 3, 2006 Beirut. In 1982, Issa was five years-old. That year, Israel invaded Lebanon killing over 19,000 Lebanese civilians and more … Continue reading

2 September, 2006 · 1 Comment

Talking to the neighbours: It’s time Israel embraced the Mideast

Pretty sensible and innovative to me – I think this Israeli is a visionary of sorts. Having Arabic on the Israeli school curriculum and valuing Arab culture would do wonders … Continue reading

2 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

This is what an occupation looks like

By Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz’s other great voice of conscience …This is painful to read but important.  Twilight Zone / Deadly diaries By Gideon Levy | Haaretz | 31.8.06 Shifa Hospital … Continue reading

2 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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