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The Ugly American Show
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.” —Henry Kissinger in William F. Buckley Jr.  United Nations Journal: A     Delegate's Odyssey (1974), pp 56–57. In the spring of 2008, a nation's intricate history was brought to the forefront in a televised spectacle: 'Great…
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The Classroom as a Battleground: Teachers as State-Builders
By Narendra Pachkhédé              "The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality”  — Mahmoud Darwish In the dusty classrooms of Gaza during the 1920s, an unassuming act of defiance unfolded—a quiet yet profound rebellion that spoke to the paradoxes of colonial rule, the audacity of educators, and the fragile scaffolding…
POLITICS Poetry
Temples of Memory, Monuments of Forgetting
There is no crop other than god and god is harvested here around the year.   —Arun Kolatkar, verse 22, Jejuri, 1976 Located in the ancient city of Ayodhya in northern India, the Ayodhya Temple, is one of the significant spiritual landmarks.  Revered as the birthplace of Lord Rama, a central figure in the Hindu…
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Canada at the Edge of Its Idea
     “Having to wait until one’s death to be allowed to live is really quite an ontological feat.”                       - Robert Musil, Austrian Novelist, Journalist and Writer Like a phantom limb, the unfinished The Man Without Qualities haunts the landscape of modern literature. It is…
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On Palestine And Narrative: We are in a new territory
“Gaza does not propel people to cool contemplation; rather, she propels them to erupt and collide with the truth.”                                                         — Mahmoud Darwish, Silence for Gaza (1973) Recognizing the Stranger - On Palestine and Narrative, a slim volume of 80-odd pages brings together Isabella Hammad’s the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture delivered at Columbia University nine…
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In a Genocide Words Die First
"In times of dread, artists must never remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That's how civilizations heal."        — Toni Morrison in No Place for Self-Pity,…