Nomadics

Israel / Palestine / Palestinian people / Uncategorized

February 12, 2016

Uri Avnery: A Lady With A Smile

February 13, 2015 IT IS not easy to be an Arab in Israel. It is not easy to be a woman in Arab society. It is...

February 8, 2016

The discussants should consider the work of a young Russian poet, Galina Rymbu

Via Eugene Ostashevsky, Music & Literature: There is a lot of talk now, in the United States at least, about political poetry and even revolutionary poetry, and what these are, and how to write them....

Art / Climate Change / Environment / European History / Global Capitalism / Global Warming / Islamic Fundamentalists / Poetics / Poetry

February 2, 2016

Dada to Daesh: 100 Years Ago Today…

… on February 2nd 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland, the following announcement, written by Hugo Ball appeared in the local press: “The Cabaret Voltaire. Under this name a group of young artists and writers has...

Film

January 31, 2016

The video of the Sundance Award Ceremony…

…at 1:13:04 Miles Joris-Peyrafitte & the “As You Are” crew take the stage! Embed from Getty Images

Film

January 30, 2016

Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition: Special Jury Award to director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte for “As You Are”!!!

Variety Sundance: 19 Biggest Breakthrough Performances (17) Owen Campbell, “As You Are” Best known for a memorable recurring role on FX’s “The Americans,” Campbell scores a leading man breakout in first-time director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s...

Israel

January 29, 2016

Uri Avnery: The Pied Piper of Zion

January 30, 2016 HAMELIN, A small town in Germany (not so far from where I was born), was infested with rats. In their despair, the burghers called upon a rat-catcher and promised him a...

Uncategorized

January 28, 2016

To quote the backdrop of Wolfgang Rihm’s staging of “Die Hamletmaschine”

HOPE IS BUT A LACK OF INFORMATION

Uncategorized

January 26, 2016

Egyptian Poet Fatima Naoot Gets Three-year Jail Sentence for ‘Insulting Islam’

via Arab Literature (in English) & mlynxqualey: Poet Fatima Naoot was sentenced today to three years in prison and a 20,000LE fine, found guilty of “contempt of religion”: Photo from Poetry International. According to Ahram Online, Naoot goes to...

Prose / Translation

January 22, 2016

Celan the Aphorist

Over the last two year it has been a great pleasure to work on & off at translating Paul Celan’s unpublished miscellaneous prose works that were gathered some years ago by Barbara Wiedemann and Bertrand...

Film

January 21, 2016