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More Rumi-nations

I happened upon more great Rumi verse as I was working today, always good to read this great Persian poet. This is a nice allegory for the value of honouring … Continue reading

21 November, 2006 · 2 Comments

Guns and butter

The cartoon by Tohby Riddle below for me recalls Thomas Friedman’s oft-cited quote which just about every undergraduate international relations student knows (not that we’re of his ideological persuasion, mind, … Continue reading

17 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Persian poetry

بنى آدم اعضاء يک پیکرند که در آفرينش ز يک گوهرند چو عضوى بدرد آورد روزگار دگر عضوها را نماند قرار Of one Essence is the human race thus has … Continue reading

9 November, 2006 · 1 Comment

Art of resistance: how Palestinians are reaching out across the globe creatively

by Ahdaf Soueif | The Guardian | Saturday October 21, 2006 Last Saturday at the Festival of Palestinian Literature in Manchester, Salma Khadra Jayyusi walked slowly to a microphone in … Continue reading

23 October, 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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