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Inside Tehran

An interesting and multi-dimensional look at the vibrant city life of Tehran, metropolitan population: 12 million. (Note to Homeyra: taking travel notes! May see you along Valiasr Street one day!) … Continue reading

20 February, 2007 · 21 Comments

John Pilger: Looking from the side, from Belsen to Gaza

New Statesman (with title Terror and Starvation in Gaza) :: JohnPilger.com | 18 January, 2007 A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders. “Some … Continue reading

19 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Students killed in Baghdad university bombing

I’m affected by a lot of news from Iraq, but the news of the bombing outside Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad that killed seventy students, mostly female, and injured more than … Continue reading

18 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

Palestinian hip-hop rocks Ramallah

From the beautiful art of Ismail Shammout to the literary theory of Edward Said, Palestine has a vibrant culture; a very rich literary, artistic, musical, culinary, youth, popular and high … Continue reading

12 January, 2007 · 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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