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3 months ago
Books

Hisham Matar: We all go through a lot. I'm wary of having material'

Hisham Matar is a Libyan author whose new novel, My Friends, is described as his most political work yet.
The novel follows a Libyan exile as he takes a walk through London, reflecting on his youth and experiences during the Arab spring. [ more ]
www.theguardian.com
3 months ago
Books

Hisham Matar: We all go through a lot. I'm wary of having material'

Hisham Matar is a Libyan author whose new novel, My Friends, is described as his most political work yet.
The novel follows a Libyan exile as he takes a walk through London, reflecting on his youth and experiences during the Arab spring. [ more ]
www.theguardian.com
3 months ago
Writing

Hisham Matar: We all go through a lot. I'm wary of having material'

Hisham Matar is a Libyan author whose new novel, My Friends, is described as his most political work yet.
The novel follows a Libyan exile as he takes a walk through London, reflecting on his youth and experiences during the Arab spring. [ more ]
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
Wellness

My Spectacular Betrayal

I was sitting at DK Donuts in Boise, Idaho, on a dreary November day, talking by phone to my therapist in London, where my husband was, and where I should have been too, if I hadn't fallen in love with another man and upended our world.It was a spectacular betrayal.I had been close with David's wife for years, as he had been with my husband.
www.aljazeera.com
1 year ago
Europe news

Families of jailed Tunisian politicians want UK to sanction Saied

Family members call for British sanctions on Tunisian officials, including the president, after a wave of arrests of opposition figures.London, England Families of Tunisian opposition leaders and officials subjected to gross human rights violations have lodged a legal application calling on the British government to impose sanctions on Tunisian officials, including President Kais Saied, for the continuing crackdown on opposition figures.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Europe news

Turkey's top diplomat visits Cairo in effort to mend ties

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, right, meets with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu at Tahrir Palace in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 18, 2023.The meeting is the first such high-level in more than a decade as the countries repair relations damaged in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

The runaway heiress, her rapist partner and the aristocratic family rift

They abandoned their burning car on the hard shoulder of the M61 and fled an aristocrat, a sex offender, and their baby, born just one or two days before.From the inferno near Bolton, thought to have destroyed all their belongings, they travelled first to Liverpool, then to Harwich in Essex, to Colchester and on to East Ham station in east London, over the course of two days.
www.aljazeera.com
1 year ago
Europe news

Erdogan says he may meet Syria's Assad for peace' in the region

The Turkish president says he could hold talks with the Syrian leader within a new process launched in Moscow last week.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that he may sit down with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to foster peace and stability in Syria, a week after a meeting between the defence ministers of the two countries.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
France news

Tunisians vote for parliament amid economic, democracy vows

Tunisians are voting to elect a new parliament on Saturday, to the backdrop of a soaring cost-of-living crisis and concerns of democracy backsliding in the North African country  the cradle of Arab Spring protests a decade ago.Opposition parties  including the Salvation Front coalition that the popular Ennahda party is part of  are boycotting the polls because they say the vote is part of President Kais Saied's efforts to consolidate power.
https://www.rogerebert.com/
1 year ago
Film

Sundance 2023: Against the Tide, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, 5 Seasons of Revolution | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

Festivals & Awards


It's also hard to see the tone of film as even-handed between the two men when Kaur ironically underscores a sequence where Ganesh takes out an $18K loan for LED lights and then another $120K loan for another boat with the "A Koli knows no fear" chant.It's clear in this portrait of these two men that there is no place for ecology when operating within capitalistic goals.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Biden Should Call Tunisian Dictator's Bluff

Don't let him get away with it.(Bloomberg)Rarely has an American president had his bluff called so swiftly and so summarily.Less than a week after gathering African leaders in Washington to reverse the perception that the US is ignoring the continent, Joe Biden gave a definitive demonstration of American neglect.
Nytimes
2 years ago
World politics

President Dissolves Tunisia's Parliament, Deepening Political Crisis

Tunisia's president dissolved Parliament on Wednesday, after lawmakers voted to block emergency powers he had given himself last year, trying to harden his sole grip on the government and courting what could be the country's severest political crisis since the 2011 revolution.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
UK politics

Release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah key to UK-Egypt relations, former diplomat says

The release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the detained British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist who is on hunger strike, has become the defining issue for British-Egyptian relations, the former British ambassador to Egypt John Casson has warned.His comments came as Abd el-Fattah's aunt, the novelist Ahdaf Soueif, said there was a danger the British are allowing themselves to be fobbed off with the excuses they have been given since last December when we started asking for consular visits.
the Guardian
2 years ago
World news

Lara Logan, who compared Fauci to Mengele, says Fox News pushed her out

The former CBS reporter Lara Logan, who compared Dr Anthony Fauci to the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, has claimed she was "pushed out" at Fox News because the conservative network does not want "independent thinkers".
Nytimes
2 years ago
World politics

Turkey Transfers Khashoggi Murder Trial to Saudi Arabia

ISTANBUL - A court in Turkey transferred the murder trial of the Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia on Thursday, a move almost certain to end the last case aimed at serving justice for a heinous crime that drew global outrage.
CBC
2 years ago
Toronto

Downtown street food market gives you a tour of the world's cuisines | CBC News

Ismaila: What is Market 707?
Suresh: This is a container market established in 2011 by Scadding Court.So, we're heading to Dundas and Bathurst in the city, just north of Alexandra Park.
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