Month: April 2021

Feminism, war and racism: an interview with Christine Delphy

  By Barbara Karatsioli, Open Democracy, 7, April 2021 Christine Delphy is a French sociologist and a central figure in French and international feminism since the 1970s. She was central in unveiling the structural importance of the family in women’s oppression and more recently the mechanisms behind the war on terror, extending and reinforcing that …

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Lecciones para escritores de Truman Capote

  Por Aloma Rodríguez, Letras Libres, 6 de abril del 2021 En el documental ‘The Capote Tapes’, disponible en Filmin, el escritor estadounidense reflexiona sobre el estilo, la escritura, cómo escribir un relato o cómo ignorar a los críticos. En 1997 George Plimpton publicó Truman Capote. Donde varios amigos, enemigos, conocidos y detractores recuerdan su turbulenta …

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Bélgica da un primer paso hacia el desconfinamiento de la cultura

  Por Clara Gámez, Swissinfo.ch, 29 de abril del 2021. Bruselas, 29 abr (EFE).- El Teatro Real de Flandes abre el camino a desconfinar la cultura en Bélgica con una prueba piloto, con público por primera vez desde octubre. Un experimento que, teniendo a España como referente, quiere demostrar que el arte es compatible con …

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‘Meşahirü’n-nisa’: Famous women in Islamic literature

  By Nusrat Sidiq, Daily Sabah, 22, March 2021. Many female figures throughout Islamic history have been admired for their lives, knowledge and morals. A biographical work from Ottoman literature, ‘Meşahirü’n-nisa,’ illuminates the stories of 1,165 renowned figures among them International Women’s Day, marked on March 8, emerged in the early 1900s as part of …

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Kashmir’s women artists paint in ‘black and white’

  By Nusrat Sidiq, Anadolu, 1, April 2021. New age artists depict decades-long conflicts, related social issues through their art SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir “You are not just a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop,” Badarunisa Bhat, a 25-year-old artist in Indian-administered Kashmir, quotes Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi – a 13th-century …

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An Indianness about shared values and culture as a mode of resistance

By Dr. Rakesh Sihna, The Indian Express, April 16, 2021. RSS has not allowed itself to be a closed institution, which is why its quest for commonalities brings it closer to even those who disregarded and disagreed with it.   The newly elected general secretary of the RSS, Dattatreya Hosabale, said something that indicates a …

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Descubren 110 tumbas del Antiguo Egipto en el delta del Nilo

  Por Laura Cercós, El Nacional.Cat, 27 de abril del 2021 Nuevo descubrimiento arqueológico en Egipto. Esta vez, una misión arqueológica encabezada por el Dr. Sayed Al-Talhawi ha encontrado 110 tumbas en el área de Kom Al-Khaljan, en la gobernación de Daqahliya, en el delta del río Nilo. Se trata de más de un centenar de construcciones funerarias …

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Diana Picasso Explains Her Grandfather Pablo Picasso’s Favorite Paintings

By Nadja Sayej News recently broke that a painting by Pablo Picasso is going to auction at a Christie’s sale in London on March 23. It’s a portrait of his muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, a model who became the mother of his child, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, and it’s expecting to fetch over $15 million. Paris-based art historian Diana Widmaier …

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