ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN JULY 1972, Ghassan Kanafani
On a day this week, July 8 1972, the Palestinian social revolutionary and writer, spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), died in Beirut, murdered by the Israeli intelligence services – Mossad
April 27, 2020. November, Like a Hole in the Heart
November, Like a Hole in the Heart. A poem by Séamas Carraher
On a Day This Week. April 27, 2020 – Antonio Francesco Gramsci
On a day this week, 27 April 1937, at 4am in the morning, Antonio Francesco Gramsci died, his health broken by years of incarceration in Benito Mussolini’s fascist jails
Another ‘DAY THIS WEEK’ … Roque Dalton, poet, communist revolutionary
May 10, marks the anniversary of the assassination and death of the Salvadorian poet and revolutionary Roque Dalton
ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN SEPTEMBER 1982 The Sabra & Shatila Massacre
Over the course of just under three days, from late on Thursday the 16th September, 1982, to early morning, Saturday the 18th, the brutal, seemingly-endless, probably-43-hour-long slaughter of between 762 and 3,500 civilians (the exact number of victims is disputed)... mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites
[35]…Years Later: Memory and Violence in Literary Sabras and Shatilas
For the last 2 years each September, ArabLit editor, Marcia Lynx Qualey has published a list of literary references, to inform on, as well as remember, the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps
[29]…Years Later Lebanon: Sabra and Chatila Massacre Remembered 29 Years On
In 2011, Antoun Issa, a Lebanese-Australian journalist, looked at the “29th anniversary of the most grueling moment in the six-decade long Arab-Israeli conflict – the massacre at Sabra and Chatila.”
ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN JULY – Murray Bookchin, 1921-2006
On a day this week, the 30th July 2006, American social revolutionary and radical thinker, Murray Bookchin died in Burlington, Vermont, USA
ON A DAY THIS WEEK in April, 1915
On a day this week, April 24, 1915, the arrest of Armenian intellectuals began in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople that was to be the signal for the mass murder of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians
