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Dr Hanan Ashrawi’s Sydney Peace Prize address

Three years ago, a proud moment and triumph of reason over smear. Dr Ashrawi deserved the standing ovations she received both before and after her address. 2003 SYDNEY PEACE PRIZE … Continue reading

6 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Cities of Joy: Sustainable Practises

Enrique Peñalosa is one of the most inspirational speakers I’ve had the good fortune to encounter. What he has done for Bogotá I wish could be done for other cities … Continue reading

16 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

Congratulations Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize 2006

Great news and well deserved. Since I first started looking at microcredit as a means of poverty alleviation for my doctoral research, it has really taken the development world by … Continue reading

13 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Itemad Ismail Abu Mo’ammar, Mother

Thanks to Alison Weir, editor of If Americans Knew, for her humanity, compassion and for providing this corrective to ensure these accounts are put on the public record. May you … Continue reading

8 October, 2006 · 1 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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