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The murder of Sakine, Fidan and Leyla: Many Questions to Answer
Post Views: 181 On the evening of 9 January 2013 Fidan Dogan (Rojbin), Sakine Cansiz (Sara) and Leyla Saylemez’s friends started to look for them after not hearing anything from them. On the same night at about 01:15, when they
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Grace Gifford. On a day this week, the 13th December, 1955
the 13th December, 1955 in Dublin city, in Ireland, the Irish artist, nationalist and republican Grace Gifford died after a lifetime watching the failed struggle for an Irish Republic to be born
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Abdellatif Laabi an Introduction
Abdellatif Laâbi, poet, writer, and translator was born in Fez, (a French Protectorate since 1912), in 1942
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An Interview with Abdellatif Laâbi
“Writing is still a risk in many countries. This was the case in Morocco when I was still living there–I was put in prison. In other countries, poets are assassinated”
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CHINA: Communist Party Legislates on Film Industry
Just recently, Monday November 7th, the 150 member Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress approved the new legislation regulating the growing film industry in China
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN NOVEMBER, 1990
On a day this week, the 11th November, 1990, the Greek poet, communist and political prisoner, Yannis Ritsos died in Athens
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La Meca: Retratos de la Ciudad en dos Libros
Dos libros – el galardonado The Dove’s Neklace (2016) de escritora Raja Alem, y Mecca: The Sacred City (2014) de Ziauddin Sardar – ofrecen retratos de una ciudad que muchos han visto y muchos más han imaginado
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November in Northern Kurdistan
The Co-chairs and Deputies of the HDP who were detained in a large-scale operation last night
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Un día, esta semana: Camilo Cienfuegos
Camilo es una figura legendaria, es la idea que yo tengo de Camilo, hasta de su mismo nombre nada común, lleno de fuerza y de poesía al mismo tiempo
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“In the first 9 months…” TERROR IN ‘TURKISH’ KURDISTAN
There isn’t a poem or a text or a piece of music that can adequately describe the terror and the outrage and the pain inflicted on humans in the course of our long history
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