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Sabry Hafez: the Novel, Politics and Islam – Haydar Haydar’s Banquet for Seaweed

First posted June 07, 2016 The astonishing story of the uproar in Egypt over the publication of a Syrian novel set in Algeria—a work of literature as trigger for political crisis and polemical turmoil, two decades after it was written, in a landscape completely transformed. Haydar Haydar’s fiction as tuning-fork of stark dissonances of time… Read More Sabry Hafez: the Novel, Politics and Islam – Haydar Haydar’s Banquet for Seaweed

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In a dark world, a light is held by those who make it harder for the powerful to lie

Journalists like Ravish Kumar battle hostile forces so that facts find a way to survive. With each new threat to our democracy, I cherish them all the more Zoe Williams In the summer, my friend Jess Search died after a short and vicious illness. She made documentaries, but people always eschewed words such as “producer” or “exec”… Read More In a dark world, a light is held by those who make it harder for the powerful to lie

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Alexei Navalny’s body given to mother by Russian authorities

Pjotr Sauer The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother nine days after he died in an Arctic prison, his spokesperson announced on Saturday. In a post on X, Kira Yarmysh thanked “all those who had demanded” the return of his body, but added that she did not know if… Read More Alexei Navalny’s body given to mother by Russian authorities

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Nakul Krishna on A. K. Ramanujan: The literary legacy of an Indian modernist / The essay censored by DU’s Academic Council

First posted August 15, 2013 “Yes, I know all that. I should be modern” – begins Ramanujan’s ‘Conventions of Despair’. Others in India have felt this impulse, and it has pulled them in different directions. In politics, it has drawn them towards nationalism, socialism and fascism. In religion, it has had similarly contradictory effects: either… Read More Nakul Krishna on A. K. Ramanujan: The literary legacy of an Indian modernist / The essay censored by DU’s Academic Council

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Press freedom groups urge Biden to hold Israel accountable for killings of journalists

Leading press freedom groups and human rights organisations have called on Joe Biden to do more to pressure Israel to “abide by international law” amid accusations that its military is targeting journalists in the Gaza war, and to hold it to account for the killings of reporters. The Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Watch, Freedom House… Read More Press freedom groups urge Biden to hold Israel accountable for killings of journalists

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The Rise of the Sectarian University (in the USA)

Greg Conti It has quickly become a commonplace that American elite higher education is in a more perilous position than it has been in recent memory. Long-standing conservative discontent has crystallized as a result of recent events; multiple proposals targeting universities’ pocketbooks have been floated by lawmakers in the past weeks. Republican officials have made… Read More The Rise of the Sectarian University (in the USA)

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Can Masha Gessen get an Apology now that Israel’s Cabinet Minister Smotrich called Gaza a ‘Ghetto’ that Should be Depopulated?

GAZA casualties live statistics United Nations Documentation on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem JUAN COLE Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The chief characteristic of the current Israeli government of PM Binyamin Netanyahu is the inclusion in it of elements that were shunned in Israeli politics until recently — the Kahanaists, who are… Read More Can Masha Gessen get an Apology now that Israel’s Cabinet Minister Smotrich called Gaza a ‘Ghetto’ that Should be Depopulated?

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Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos

US-Russian journalist Masha Gessen won Germany’s Hannah Arendt prize for political thought. Supporters of Gessen, who is Jewish, and whose grandfather and great-grandfather were among family members murdered by the Nazis, have been quick to point out the irony of suspending a prize awarded in memory of Arendt, the German-born Jewish-American historian, philosopher and antitotalitarian… Read More Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos

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