Video: Masterful combo: Aya El Zinati’s video of Susan Abulhawa reading...
During the recent power outages Gazan Aya El Zinati made this knockout video with clips of her friend Susan Abulhawa reading ‘Black’, a masterful harsh/heart-thrashing critical poem from her first...
View ArticlePoem from Gaza: You have 58 seconds to run
8 August 2014 — Jonathon Cook Running Orders Lena Khalaf Tuffaha They call us now. Before they drop the bombs. The phone rings and someone who knows my first name calls and says in perfect Arabic...
View ArticleMedia Erase NATO Role in Bringing Slave Markets to Libya By Ben Norton
NATO supported an array of rebel groups fighting on the ground in Libya, many of which were dominated by Islamist extremists and harbored violently racist views. Militants in the NATO-backed rebel...
View ArticleBenjamin Zephaniah on Windrush, anarchism and his time in North Korea
Zephaniah turns down the post of poet laureate Poet, writer and activist Benjamin Zephaniah talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the Windrush scandal, how the political system should be torn down and...
View ArticleThe bleak shelter of Yellow Shade
The asymmetrical chair and the table cloth sitting skew in the Sam Nhlengethwa lithograph (My Grandmother’s Kitchen in the 60’s) on the cover of Yellow Shade (Deep South) are apt metaphors for how...
View ArticleLove on Fire
DIMAKATSO SEDITE Dimakatso Sedite was born in Bloemfontein in 1969. She trained as a research psychologist and has worked in the areas of child rights, livelihoods and HIV/AIDS. Her poems, stories, and...
View ArticleWhitey On The Moon In the North Carolina Sky
Historians often utilize the term “primary source” to describe a piece of historical evidence. The evidence can be anything created during the period in which one is researching. From pictures to...
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