By Ian Scales, Telecomtv, 30, April 2021 In the late 19th Century a chap called Zamenhof came up with the idea of ‘constructing’ a global second language – Esperanto – which everyone could learn so that they could converse with people who didn’t share their own, be they primary speakers of English, French or …
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By Donavyn Coffey, Wired, 28, April 2021. Te Hiku Media gathered huge swathes of Māori language data. Corporates are now trying to get the rights to it In March 2018, Peter-Lucas Jones and the ten other staff at Te Hiku Media, a small non-profit radio station nestled just below New Zealand’s most northern tip, …
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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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Por Gisela Kozak Rovero, Letras Libres, 13 octubre del 2020 La figura de Modigliani, pintor enfermo y sin dinero, constituye una reliquia de la modernidad y la noción de que el arte y la literatura remodelarán para mejor el mundo. Contemplar su obra recuerda la belleza de la vida en medio de la pandemia. …
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 …
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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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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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 …
Kashmir’s women artists paint in ‘black and white’ Read More »
TRA FATAH E HAMAS, C’È UNA SINISTRA CHE RESISTE, Palestina Rossa Molto forte negli anni 1970-1980, la sinistra palestinese è stata relegata in secondo piano e non ha saputo approfittare della seconda Intifada per rimettersi in sella. Diventata una forza secondaria sul piano della lotta armata, potrà riacquistare consensi facendo leva sulla “società civile”? …
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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