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8Apr

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Arabic, Literature

أبي فوق الشجرة” يواجه “المنع” بعد 43 عاماً من عرضه”

Posted By: Siba Bizri Shoah Arabic Editor "أبي فوق الشجرة" يواجه "المنع" بعد 43 عاماً من عرضه (دي برس) بعد 43 عاماً من إنتاج وعرض فيلم "أبي فوق الشجرة" عشرات المرات، يبدو أن مقص الرقيب الجديد في مصر سيستهدفه ويمنعه كلية نظرا لكثافة عدد ما يتضمنه من قبلات بين بطل الفيلم الراحل عبدالحليم حافظ والممثلتين نادية لطفي وميرفت أمين. ونقلت "العربية نت" عن جريدة "الأنباء" الكويتية في تقرير لها إن تداعيات سيطرة الأحزاب الدينية على الحياة السياسية في مصر بعد ثورة 25 يناير بدأت بالفعل تظهر جلية على الساحة الفنية. وتوضح أن الرقابة "الأخلاقية" التي تفرضها الأجندة الجديدة لن تقتصر على إنتاج اليوم والغد، بل ستكون بمفعول رجعي يمتد خمسين عاما إلى الوراء وربما أكثر، فقد كشفت معلومات صحافية جديدة أن أجهزة الرقابة في التلفزيون المصري بدأت بمراجعة جميع الأفلام القديمة التي كانت تعرض بشكل طبيعي تمهيدا لحذف كل ...

2Apr

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Literature

ALWAYS PRESENT

FOR ANGELA DE HOYOS BY: Moses Sandoval Posted by:Professor Teresinka Pereira Because I am hurt by your immortality, I am not an angel. However I am a Chicana since I came here just like the ones from ''down there''. south of the Rio Grande. I learned how to speck Spanish very well, a little and bad english with a strong accent because in my country I could not speak at all. The military dictatorship* had censured my poetry because I was communist. I feel very much Chicana growing up here with la raza Latina. Here I am, still in a foreign country where Iam still needed fighting for our rights. * Brazil had a military dictatorship sponsored by USA, from 1964-1985

26Mar

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Literature

Robots Kill, But the Blood Is on Our Hands

NOVANEWS By David Swanson In her spare time, between nonstop peace activism and leading international exchanges, Medea Benjamin has somehow managed to write the best book yet on the most inhuman form of war yet. The book is called “Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control.” The foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich and a form to pre-order the book are here. Even if you’ve been reading everything you could about drones, attending peace conferences, and protesting in the lobbies of drone companies like General Atomics, you will learn a great deal from this book. In fact, I’m willing to bet that even if you “pilot” drones from a desk for a living you will learn a great deal from this book. And if you have not been paying attention to drones, then you really need to read this book. ...

12Mar

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Literature

The Book of Esther (The Wandering Who?

NOVANEWS Chapter 19 ‘Haman said to King Achashvairosh, “There is a nation scattered and separated among the nations [the Jews] throughout your empire. Their laws are different than everyone else’s, they do not obey the king’s laws, and it does not pay for the king to tolerate their existence. If it pleases the king, let a law be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay to the executors ten thousand silver Kikar-coins for the king’s treasury.”’ (The Book Of Esther, Chapter 3) The Book of Esther is a biblical story that forms the basis for the celebration of Purim, probably the most joyously celebrated Jewish festival. The book tells of an attempted Judeocide, but also of Jews who manage to change their fate. In the Book of Esther, the Jews rescue themselves, and even get to mete out ...

16Feb

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Literature

Author William Parry’s U.S. speaking Tour

NOVANEWS William Parry, a London-based photojournalist who contributes regularly to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, will be discussing his book, Against the Wall: the art of resistance in Palestine, in an upcoming U.S. tour. He will be giving illustrated talks around the country between Feb. 17 and March 3, 2012 (see itinerary below). His stunning book of photos (available from the AET Book Club, www.middleeastbooks.com) captures the graffiti and street art that has transformed Israel’s apartheid wall into a livingcanvas of resistance and solidarity. Featuring the work of artists including Banksy, Ron English, Swoon, Faile, Bluand others, as well as Palestinian artists and international grassroots activists, these photos express outrage, compassion, solidarity, peac...

13Feb

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Literature

The Golem, by Michael Collins Piper; Read Before Bombing

NOVANEWS by Tom Valentine Piper is truly amazing. Those of us who know him and have worked with him know the secret of his insightful writings. Mike has a photo memory and speed-reads with comprehension, which allows him to seriously support whatever it is he needs to document a topic. Though I had 20 years of close association with the author at Liberty Lobby, and greatly admired his definitive book on the assassination of JFK ”Final Judgement,” I had not read this astounding work until recently. I was amazed at his recollection of details about the Zionist lobby’s treatment of both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton in this book. Details that are entirely germane to the hot button issue of our day—Nuke warfare and proposed war with Iran. The subheads on this paperback’s cover are: “ I...

22Jan

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Literature

New Writing

NOVANEWS I have reviewed Belén Fernández’s book on Thomas Friedman for Jadaliyya. An excerpt, then go read it there. A researcher once carried out an informal study to try to find out whether or not people actually read the books on bestseller lists. To find out, he put envelopes in the reputedly high-selling books. In each envelope was a note saying that if those who found the envelopes were to send them to a designated address, the researcher would send them five dollars. According to the story, the response rate was zero. After reading The Imperial Messenger,Belén Fernández’s treatment of the life’s work of Thomas Friedman, one can only hope for the sake of American intellectual culture that some of the books included in that experiment were Friedman’s. Fernández’s book, par...

4Jan

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Literature, Middle East

Iraq 2011: The Return of the Poets

NOVANEWS Al-Akhbar Management Iraqi poet Muzaffar al-Nawab. (Photo: Al-Akhbar) By: Hussam al-Saray Published Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Poet Muzaffar al-Nawab’s visit to Baghdad in May 2011 was one of Iraq’s national and cultural highlights this past year. In addition, after a series of protests over the last year, Iraqi intellectuals succeeded in preserving the legacy of the poet Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri (1899-1997) by preventing the sale of his house in Baghdad, which had been slated to be converted into a commercial space. Many creative people passed away in 2011, perhaps the most significant of whom was theater director Hadi al-Mahdi, who was assassinated in September; pioneering sculptor Muhammed Ghani Hikmat; music critic Adel al-Hashimi, who died suddenly in Cairo; ...

25Dec

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Literature

Josephus Best Journalist Ever?

NOVANEWS You are looking at a rare reproduction of a lost oil painting titled The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70 by David Roberts, a member of Britain's Royal Academy. Read More: http://www.preteristarchive.com/ARTchive/1850_roberts_destruction-jerusalem.html Second Coming Came by Tom Valentine To best answer the perplexing question of modern Christians regarding the oft predicted “second coming” of Jesus, we shall turn to the best, most accurate and informed journalist of the times—Josephus, who had more “access” to power at the scene in Jerusalem, than we could imagine, and whose blind prejudice toward Christians because he was a Pharisee hater of Jesus, also serves to bolster his historic credibility. A recent book “J...

19Dec

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Literature

Book review: How Zionism paved way for permanent war

NOVANEWS Jimmy Johnson Gabriel Piterberg noted in his masterful 2008 book The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel that the “achievements of the comparative study of settler colonialism have been at once scholarly and political,” that the young field “creates a language that amounts to a transformative alternative to the way in which these settler societies narrate themselves in their own words.” Yet, like many academic fields, comparative settler-colonial studies has a difficult time translating into the sphere of organizing for policy change. The bridge between the academic and activist worlds is mostly missing. So one purpose of reviewing books such as the newly released collection Studies in Settler Colonialism for The Electronic Intifada i...