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The Murder of Syrian Poet Mohammad Bashir al-Aani
PEN International has condemned the murder of Mohammad Bashir al-Aani and his son Elyas in Deir al-Zour City “by the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS)”:
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What Future, What Human Race, What Meaning: New Zealand’s Animal Welfare Bill?
This new piece of legislation recognises for the first time “that animals have feelings and can experience pleasure and pain”
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On Mahmoud Darwish’s Birthday, a New Translation of ‘Dying for Free’
On the anniversary of the birth of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1942-2008), a new translation by Naser Albreeky
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New Theatre: ‘The Several Beheadings of Ashraf Fayadh’
If you’re in London, you have an opportunity to drop in on a reading of Hassan Abdulrazzak‘s new short play, The Several Beheadings of Ashraf Fayadh
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For The Kurdish People in Diyakabir and Beyond
Dear President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, for fuck’s sake, stop killing people in Northern Kurdistan
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Ashraf Fayadh: Hell on Earth
There is much should concern us here as well as reminding us of the turbulent life of the Turkish communist poet Nazim Hikmet who spent most of his life either in prison or in exile
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El alma llanera en luto: dos años sin Tío Simón
Post Views: 79 El pasado viernes 19 de febrero, se conmemoró el segundo año de la partida de Simón Díaz, más conocido como “Tío Simón”: uno de los máximos exponentes de la música llanera y uno de los cantautores contemporáneos
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Los Rolling Stones en La Habana
Los Rolling Stones, una de las más célebres agrupaciones del rock mundial, se encuentran en estos momentos en Brasil, donde se preparan para dar su segundo concierto en Sao Pualo este sábado 27 de febrero
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Egyptian Writers’ and Artists’ Statement Against the Imprisonment of Novelist Ahmed Naji
Novelist Ahdaf Soueif has translated this statement, signed by more than 400 artists and writers
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Egyptian Appeals Court Sentences Novelist Ahmed Naji to Two Years
EGYPTIAN APPEALS COURT SENTENCES NOVELIST AHMED NAJI TO TWO YEARS
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