After a week at the Poetry Festival in Sète (videos to come in a few days) where Nicole read/performed at least once a day but where the internet connection, if I may call it that, didn’t allow me to publish anything to this blog, we drove today to a village in the Béarn near Pau for a week-long residency on Occitan poetry. Leaving Sète we stopped at the “Cimetière … Read more From Sète to the Béarn
If you’re in the South of France these weeks & like poetry & performance, do not miss the Festival “Voix Vives de Méditerranée en Méditerranée” in Sète. More than a hundred poets & performers from just about every country around the Mediterranean will do their thing for 7 days — morning, noon & night. I’ll be there, for the pleasure of seeing some old friends and to accompany Nicole … Read more Nicole Peyrafitte @ Festival Voix Vives in Sète
July 15, 2013 Dear Library Supporter, In recent weeks there have been so many developments in the effort to stop the Central Library Plan, it’s been hard to keep up! So here is a re-cap, as well as ways you can get involved. Bill de Blasio Takes Our Side! Last Friday Public Advocate and mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio announced his opposition to the Central Library Plan (CLP). He … Read more Update from the Committee to Save the New York Public Library
Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 07/15/2013 Greenhouse gases emitted today will cause sea level to rise for centuries to come. Each degree of global warming is likely to raise sea level by more than 2 meters in the future, a study now published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows. While thermal expansion of the ocean and melting mountain glaciers are … Read more Each degree of global warming might ultimately raise global sea levels by more than 2 meters
This (clickable sound file below) dates from 29 June, when it was broadcast as one of Meddeb’s weekly editorials on Med1, the excellent Tangiers-based Maghrebi Radio station, and is one of the most accurate analysis of the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy for take-over in Turkey, Egypt & Tunisia, proposed as strategy & accurately foreseen in an analysis by the Israeli services dating to the late 70s. If you have French listen. I … Read more Abdelwahab Meddeb on Muslim Brotherhood
Spoiler alert: it’s in French. Grand entretien avec Abdellatif Laâbi – Comédie… by villedemontpellier
Yesterday Nicole & I drove up to Albany & the University there to empty my office — sort of pre-retirement ritual (officially I’ll be emeritus 31 August) after 21 years of laboring in the hallowed halls of academia. My office compañero, Chris Rizzo, was on hand to lend one. At some point I looked up & noticed the following two pieces of paper scotched to the wall behind the … Read more The Visual Puns of Retirement
Book Crowd Sourcing campaign 4Jun2013 13Jul2013 indiegogo By Basma Hamdy, Don Karl, www.commongroundgallery.de / Curators and editors: Basma Hamdy & Don Karl “This book, is an act within our revolution – our continuing revolution.” Ahdaf Soueif, Booker prize finalist, Egyptian Novelist, political & Cultural commentator “How many books have been published about Egypt’s revolutionary Streetart? This is the only one I wanna read!” Ganzeer, Artist “Walls of Freedom is the real … Read more Walls of Freedom
Adishatz, Hello! Our spring was busy & rich with a great tour of the UK. You can find videos & pix on my facebook page, Pierre Joris’ blog & more links below. We are now almost ready to embark on a long summer transhumance filled with many exciting stages — see short & longer term dates below. Meanwhile, let me fill you in on our publications. Bi-Valve : Vulvic Space / Vulvic Knowledge — which … Read more Summer’s Ahead, Says Nicole