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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, in August 1956
On a day this week, the 14th August, 1956, after more than 40 years as playwright, theatre director and social critic, the communist writer and poet Bertolt Brecht died of heart failure in the flat he shared with Helene Weigel
Read MoreDr. Edward Daly, 5 December 1933 – 8 August 2016 0
The retired Bishop of Derry Dr. Edward Daly, described as the ‘people’s bishop’, has died in Altnagelvin Hospital on the Glenshane road in Derry, Northern Ireland
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Utopian and Dystopian Palestines: From Literature to Art and Back at the ‘Chapter 31’ Exhibition
“Chapter 31: A New Archaeology Of The Future”[1] is a new exhibition that tips its hat to Emile Habibi’s pioneering text The Secret Life of Saeed The Pessoptimist
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‘Women in Translation’ Month, and 5 New or Forthcoming Books by Arab Women
This August marks the third annual Women in Translation month, held with the aim of encouraging readers, reviewers, publishers, booksellers, and librarians – but especially readers – to engage with women writers in translation
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Ashraf Fayadh: STILL IMPRISONED
Thursday, July 28, 2016 has been named A DAY OF CREATIVITY for Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh, originally arrested in 2013 in Abha, in southwest Saudi Arabia, imprisoned in January 2014 and sentenced to death in November 2015
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Birinci Bodrum The First Basement
The savage massacre committed by Turkish forces in ??rnak’s Cizre district. A poem by séamas carraher
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK IN JULY 1919
On a day this week, the 5th July, 1919, after more than 16 years struggling to organise the militant proletariat in both Germany and Russia, the communist and revolutionary, Eugen Leviné was shot dead by firing squad in Stadelheim Prison
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In memory of Eli Wiesel
Elie Wiesel, Buchenwald inmate number “A-7713”, born September 30, 1928 has died, Saturday 2nd July, 2016 at his home in Manhattan, New York
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK …
Post Views: 130 [1] ON A DAY THIS WEEK IN JUNE 1963 On a day this week, the 3rd June, 1963, at 6.30am, the Turkish poet and communist Nazim Hikmet Ran died in Moscow after over a decade in exile
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The Steel Cranes
The people of Ireland, since 30 September 2008, have been taught a harsh lesson in the nature of class power and the Irish State
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