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Poems from a guerrilla Autumn A poetry book from Kurdistan to appreciate the value of freedom
Autumn is the title of a little, precious book of poems, thoughts, fragments of lives. A book of partisan notes from Kurdistan, as the curators say
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NEW BOOK. The UK Border Regime – a critical guide
This brings together Corporate Watch’s recent research on the “hostile environment” against migrants in the UK, and the companies that profit from it
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‘A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot’ – documentary film
Released in Irish cinemas on Friday 14 September – ‘A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot” – is a new documentary from journalist and filmmaker Sinéad O’Shea who takes a look at the divided city of Derry in the “still occupied” 6 counties of Northern Ireland 20 years after the “peace process”
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Free At Last! Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour Finally Released by Israelis
Thursday, 20 September, 2018 Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour, was released from prison by the Israeli authorities after completing her last five-month prison sentence.
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN SEPTEMBER 1982 The Sabra & Shatila Massacre
Over the course of just under three days, from late on Thursday the 16th September, 1982, to early morning, Saturday the 18th, the brutal, seemingly-endless, probably-43-hour-long slaughter of between 762 and 3,500 civilians (the exact number of victims is disputed)… mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites
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[35]…Years Later: Memory and Violence in Literary Sabras and Shatilas
For the last 2 years each September, ArabLit editor, Marcia Lynx Qualey has published a list of literary references, to inform on, as well as remember, the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps
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[29]…Years Later Lebanon: Sabra and Chatila Massacre Remembered 29 Years On
In 2011, Antoun Issa, a Lebanese-Australian journalist, looked at the “29th anniversary of the most grueling moment in the six-decade long Arab-Israeli conflict – the massacre at Sabra and Chatila.”
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Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour Sentenced to 5 Months; Create Art To Help Fight Her Conviction
Post Views: 31 Dareen Tatour has already spent more than two years and eight months between prison and house arrest for “incitement to violence” and “support of a terrorist organization” for her poem, “Resist, My People, Resist Them,” and Facebook statuses.
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN JULY – Murray Bookchin, 1921-2006
On a day this week, the 30th July 2006, American social revolutionary and radical thinker, Murray Bookchin died in Burlington, Vermont, USA
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BOOK. ‘Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdoğan’s Turkey’
Black Rose Books recently marked the release of ‘Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdoğan’s Turkey’
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