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Africa / Art / Human rights / Resistance / Unnatural Disaster

June 15, 2019

Against Erasure: Art and Sudan’s Sit-in

& once again via & thanks to the great work ArabLit is doing: JUNE 15, 2019 More than 100 people were killed and hundreds injured in the government’s June 3 attack on a sit-in...

Arab Culture / Censorship / Egypt / Freedom of Speech / Human rights / Intellectuals / Mashreq / Poetry

June 9, 2018

Poet Galal El-Behairy’s ‘Letter from Tora Prison’

via ArabLit: Ahead of the expected verdict for imprisoned Egyptian poet Galal El-Behairy, ArabLit — like PEN centers around the world — is sharing a work El-Behairy wrote in prison: El-Behairy was arrested more than...

Arab Culture / Colonialism / Human rights / Israel / Middle East / Palestinian people

March 23, 2018

Uri Avnery: Son of a Dog

24.3.18 THE CLOSER Mahmoud Abbas gets to the end of his reign, the more extreme his language becomes. Recently he spoke about Donald Trump and uttered the words “May your house be destroyed”. In...

Climate Change / Human rights / Intellectuals / Israel / Journalism / Palestine

April 21, 2017

More on Bret Stephens, the NYT’s New Hire: from Climate Denial to Racism

New New York Times hire Bret Stephens (cc photo: Christopher Michel) Outraged by the NYT hiring a straight-ahead climate denier (which at this point in the game is exactly as inane as hiring a...

Censorship / Human rights / Mashreq / Poet / Poetry

July 28, 2016

For July 28: Not Forgetting Ashraf Fayadh

via Arab Lit (in English) & BY MLYNXQUALEY on JULY 28, 2016 • ( 0 ) Today is a Day of Creativity for Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, serving eight years and 800 lashes in...

Human rights / Israel / Palestine / Poetry / Uncategorized

July 26, 2016

Dareen Tatour Returned… To Prison!

Posted by freehaifa. According to the principal chronicler of Dareen’s case, the blogger “Yoav Haifawi”: How “security considerations” become means for torture… We invited everybody to celebrate the return of poet Dareen Tatour to Reineh...

Human rights / Poetry

January 9, 2016

Iranian Poet & Activist Sentenced To Prison

via January 8, 2016—The poet and civil activist Hila Sedighi was arrested at Imam Khomeini International Airport on January 7, 2016, as she and her husband returned from a trip to the United Arab...

Arab Culture / Freedom of Speech / Human rights / Intellectuals

January 8, 2015

One Year Without Charges: Poet Ashraf Fayadh

Via the always excellent Arab Literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on JANUARY 6, 2015 • ( 2 ) Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh was arrested by Saudi authorities on January 1, 2014 —...

Gaza Strip / Human rights / Intellectuals / Islamic Fundamentalists / Mashreq

December 6, 2014

Gaza writers receive death threats from IS

This article via Al Monitor: THE PULSE OF THE MIDDLE EAST by Hana Salah Posted December 5, 2014 Translator(s)Pascale el Khoury GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Mystery still surrounds the presence of the Islamic State (IS) in...

Human rights / Man-made Disaster / Politics

November 17, 2014

Ayotzinapa’s Uncomfortable Dead [1]

by Charlotte María Sáenz via: Other Worlds 11 xi 14 Vivos se los llevaron y vivos los queremos. “Alive, they were taken, and alive we want them back,” became the national and international public’s...