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A Tour of the 2016 Palestine International Book Fair: In Words and Pictures
The 2016 Palestine International Book Fair, which ran just before the annual Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest), ran from May 7-17
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‘Living Together in Spite of Our Differences’: A Talk with Amin Maalouf
The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair opened this year on April 27, the morning after the International Prize for Arabic Fiction was announced, and closes today
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José “Pepe” Mujica: “Cambiar el mundo es difícil pero algo se consigue”
El galardonado escritor cubano-uruguayo Daniel Chavarría entrevista Pepe Mujica en exclusiva para Global Rights y Diritti Globali. “Si la cultura no tiene en cuenta la FELICIDAD humana la vida se nos escapa”
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Sir Bob and the f***ing martyrs
Some time back there was a fashionable notion called the Tipping Point. In the old days we’d have called it the straw that broke the camel’s back. Well, I’ve reached that point with Sir Bob Geldof
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By the Banks of the Tigris River My Soul Sat Down and Wept for the people of Cizîr?
Post Views: 153 “On 13 December 2015, the Turkish authorities renewed the curfew on Cizre city. The siege lasted until the 11 February 2016 and involved the use of heavy weapons, including tanks and artillery, in densely populated residential areas
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Ireland, 1916: Something To Commemorate?
If 1916 means anything to those of us who aspire and struggle for radical social change it has to be because in an environment with so little integrity the moments that appear and the individuals that are fortunate to embody them become like a light in the proverbial darkness
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On World Poetry Day, Support Imprisoned Poets
March 21 is “World Poetry Day,” as declared by UNESCO
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Qatari Poet Muhammad Al Ajami, Serving 15-year Sentence, Pardoned by Emir
Qatari poet Muhammad al-Ajami — who was the target of an international solidarity movement because of his 15-year prison sentence — has been pardoned
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Voices in Support of Novelist Ahmed Naji
From recent statements in support of Ahmed Naji, sentenced to two years in prison for the publication of an excerpt of his novel in Akhbar al-Adab magazine
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