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- The trail of political Islam - Open Democracy
Gilles Kepel, one of the world’s foremost experts on the modern Middle East, has written “Jihad: the Trail of Political Islam”, the first comprehensive attempt to follow the history and spread of Islamist political movements. In a talk given at ...
- Shakespeare in the sun - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesShakespeare in the sunLos Angeles Times, CA - 35 minutes agoThese days, it takes a determined theater troupe to lure people away from malls and multiplexes for an evening of iambic pentameter poetry. ...
- Woody Allen's Barcelona Summer of Love - Time
Weinstein Company / Everett Alive, the Woodman has not been residing in the auteur empyrean for the past couple of decades. There was a four-film stretch of genuine stinkers — Small Time Crooks, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending and ...
- The Comic Side of Nakadai - Nypress.com
This past Tuesday and Wednesday, Film Forum showed off the comedic side of actor Tatsuya Nakadai with Age of Assassins , Kihachi Okamoto's zany spy satire and I Am a Cat , Kon Ichikawa's dry comedy of manners. Both are fairly obscure and have ...
- Patti Smith and Kevin Shields: The Coral Sea - Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City PaperPatti Smith and Kevin Shields: The Coral SeaBaltimore City Paper, MD - 35 minutes agoThough sometimes overwritten, her poetry is richly evocative. Shields' score mimics the ocean itself, swelling with discord like a storm at sea during the ...
- Hendrix guitar a "flaming bargain" - The Independent
A collector who paid ÂŁ280,000 at auction for the first guitar set alight on stage by rock legend Jimi Hendrix is preparing to take his new purchase home to America. A delighted Daniel Boucher, 51, Boylston, Massachusetts, said he thought he would ...
- Pupils get poetic - Swindon Advertiser
Pupils get poeticSwindon Advertiser, UK - 7 hours agoNorth Star Nursery tots described their favourite people and toys in verse for the competition – My First Poem. And all 18 of the three and four year olds ...
- Doctor's work praised - Swindon Advertiser
Doctor's work praisedSwindon Advertiser, UK - 52 minutes agoThe Mervyn Peake awards honour the outstanding talent of people with Parkinson’s in art, poetry and photography and Mrs Carder came top in the highly ...
- Douglas works on display - Delmarva Daily Times
Douglas works on displayDelmarva Daily Times, MD - 18 minutes agoThe exhibition, "Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist," at the Smithsonian American Art Museum through August 3, charts the course and breadth of ...
- The Butterfly Girl - North County Times
Rays of late-morning sunshine filter through the white miniblinds of Cristina Perez's window and illuminate the vivid patchwork of purple and red sores that cover her pale, 4-foot, 10-inch body. Bending slowly forward on a padded table, Cristina, 23 ...
- A life through words as Jidariyya gets its first performance - Metro
BBC NewsA life through words as Jidariyya gets its first performanceMetro, UK - 6 hours ago'Every Palestinian and every Arab who knows his poetry feels the loss,' says director Amir Nizar Zuabi of Palestinian National Theatre, speaking from Tel ...Video: Remembering Mahmoud Darwish - 10 Aug 08 AlJazeeraEnglishPalestinian saga personified Arab NewsChristina Patterson: Where poetry still has power IndependentBBC News - The Media Lineall 625 news articles
- Fundamentally Muslim - Daily News & Analysis
Fundamentally MuslimDaily News & Analysis, India - 1 hour agoHe spoke exquisite Urdu, appreciated ghazals and poetry, relished a well-cooked biryani and greeted fellow Muslims with a salaam and bid them adieu with a ...
- Neil Kinnock welcomes Joe Biden nomination - Daily Telegraph
Veteran US senator Mr Biden's hopes of winning the 1988 White House race were scuppered when it emerged he copied parts of a speech from Lord Kinnock without acknowledging him. Lord Kinnock said the two men had become firm friends since the scandal ...
- Michael Lind. - The Globalist
Michael Lind.The Globalist, DC - 4 hours agoLind has also published several volumes of fiction and poetry, including The Alamo (1997), which the Los Angeles Times named as one of its Best Books of ...
- Lesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87 (The Desert Sun)
Del Martin, a pioneering lesbian rights activist who with her lifelong partner became a symbol for the movement to legalize gay marriage, died Wednesday morning. She was 87.
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