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- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish is dead at 67 (International Herald Tribune)
Mr. Darwish's prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting.
- The real Mumbaikar - Hindustan Times
The recent attacks on North Indians in Mumbai and other Maharashtra districts hide a political and socio-economic pattern. Appeals made by Raj Thackeray — and seconded grudgingly by the Shiv Sena — for unity of the Marathi manoos on an anti-North ...
- Nepali poetry festival in NY (Nepalnews. com)
A Nepali poetry festival was observed in Queens, New York at Satya Narayan Temple's recently where a large number of Nepalis living in the US gathered.
- Emory Launches $1.6 Billion Campaign - PressZoom (press release)
Emory Launches $1.6 Billion CampaignPressZoom (press release), Netherlands - 20 hours agoAn Emory professor of English, Natasha Trethewey, was named last year's Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry, while another Pulitzer Prize winner, Georgia-born ...
- For their fans, these are definitely keepers - Birmingham News
Happy Banned Books Week! And it is a time of celebration for us in America because we have the freedom to read, discuss and debate our literary treasures. For more on the observance and for a list of regularly challenged books, check out www.ala.org ...
- The Porcelain Project - The List
The ListThe Porcelain ProjectThe List, UK - 7 hours ago‘And there are a lot of crazy kings in history – like your George III – and I was fascinated by the almost ridiculous poetry that’s used to describe them. ...
- The Early World: New Non-Fiction for the Week of October 6, 2008 (Blogcritics.org)
Anne Rice, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcella Hazan, John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution, the Hunt for Bin Laden... Ahem. I call this piece, "In Celebration of Autumn: New Books, in Poetry and Prose." Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted ManBy Dalton Fury In its endeavor to track down the world’s most dangerous man, the 40 members of America’s ...
- Election 08: Tennessee one of top 10 'battleground legislatures' - Facing South
Election 08: Tennessee one of top 10 'battleground legislatures'Facing South, NC - Sep 12, 2008Chris is Executive Director of the Institute for Southern Studies and publisher of the Institute’s award-winning magazine, Southern Exposure. ...
- Mahmoud Darwish, poet of the Palestinians, dies (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters (Adds mourning, edits) By Mohammed Assadi and Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, ...
- FACTBOX: A glimpse of Chinese ancient literature - Xinhua
FACTBOX: A glimpse of Chinese ancient literatureXinhua, China - 1 hour agoSHI: A kind of poetry that usually has five or seven characters in a line. The form peaked in the Tang Dynasty (581-907 AD). ...
- People, Places and Things - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
He was one of “The Original Kings of Comedy” in the 2000 documentary of that title that brought a new generation of black standup comedy stars to a wider audience. Mac went on to star in the hugely popular “Ocean’s Eleven” franchise with ...
- Coffeehouse by Fort Lewis would support veterans - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Coffeehouse by Fort Lewis would support veteransSeattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour agoThe cafe also would serve up music, movies, poetry slams, lectures and access to legal help. Rebecchi said one of the main goals of the coffeehouse is to ...
- Five things not to miss at the Mesa County Fair - Grand Junction Sentinel
Five things not to miss at the Mesa County FairGrand Junction Sentinel, CO - 48 minutes agoNew this year in Open Class are the Mesa County 125th Anniversary singing and poetry categories. Get out of the heat, and check out the needlework, ...
- Mortensen delves into cowboy mentality - Saskatoon Star Phoenix
TORONTO - Just how fearless is Viggo Mortensen? Forget his naked fight scene in the movie Eastern Promises. The man is wearing a Habs T-shirt in the middle of Leaf Nation. "Yeah. I've been booed on the street," says the man with the now-famous ...
- OurSound in the Newspaper - Owen Sound Sun Times
Our Sound music columnist Bill Henry turns his eyes and ears on the area's vibrant, multi-genre music scene every week in The Sun Times. From blues to bluegrass, folk to funk, pop to punk and classical to celtic, Henry writes about the area's ...
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