It is a journey that requires even more work, and even more hope.
To ensure this commitment continues, we are raising £15,000 by 15 April. If we reach our target, every donation will be doubled by a generous supporter.
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For our 15th anniversary, we are raising £15,000 to sustain our mission of defending these voices-and if we reach our target, a generous supporter will match the amount, doubling your impact.
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When #Nato helped overthrow #Gaddafi in 2011, there were hopes of a new beginning. A decade later, this former #CIA asset runs the country – and #Libya has become yet another lesson in the unintended consequences of foreign intervention
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Gordon Brown by James Macintyre review – a very different kind of politician
Ten years on from Merkel's "wir schaffen das", German politicians are now asking Syrians to return home.
I marked this bittersweet anniversary by profiling five Syrians who came to Germany as refugees and have changed the country in profound ways - from LGBT activists to artists and doctors.
"Ralph Hubbell has succeeded marvelously in rendering the stream of consciousness of inner offbeat voices within the short stories of the great and notoriously difficult twentieth-century Turkish author Oğuz Atay."
Nice translation praise from MLA's Scaglione Prize committee.
"The world was too ridiculous for me to remain too sad for too long." - Arundhati Roy (Mother Mary Comes to Me)
The political editor of the BBC’s sycophantic coverage of Nigel Farage is a warning of a dark future coming to the UK.
Piece from me on how incitement to racial violence and the promotion of conspiracy theories that might kill children are now given a free pass.
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54 Books By Women From Each Of Africa's 54 Countries | The Republic rpublc.com/april-may-20...
“A time to recognize the literary translators whose intense, sustained work has led to the publication of these and other brilliant works of literature, which otherwise would remain unknown to a wider, international audience.” (@ilzeduarte.bsky.social)
A week to go til September, World Kid Lit Month: the month to explore and celebrate international children's literature!
Read a kids' or YA book from or set in another country, or translated from another language. Comment below if you'd like ideas!
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#WorldKidLitMonth
Over a third of people say they’re going days without eating in Gaza. For now, the confirmed famine is centered in the governorate of Gaza, one of five in the strip. Our maps show where it’s expected to spread by the end of September
من التمر إلى النفط.. مشروع الاستعباد العربي manassa.news/stories/2613...
‘Blue Humanities has taken over large parts of the academy in the last decade, bringing the human relationship with oceans, rivers, lakes and seas to the top of the scholarly agenda just as those waters gather to end humanity for good.’
@josephinequinn.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
1. 🧵Listen Again: Has the war in Gaza exposed a weakness at the heart of the liberal world order? Omar El Akkad joins @faisalalyafai.bsky.social for a frank and honest discussion about his own relationship to the conflict and its global impact.
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This new cookery book from Gazan chef Mona Zahed looks beautiful. Slingshot Books writes: "100% of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go directly to the author and her community." Delivery is expected Feb. 2025.
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The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth: #Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.
By Anne Applebaum
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Rachel is saying what we all knew. The GOP are hiding from their constituents and the reason is because they are demanding answers.
#USDemocracy
Just two weeks left to enter the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize! If you have been working on some fiction, life writing, or poetry, now is the time to submit.
The prize is open internationally, and is accepting translations for the first time in it's fifteen-year history.
التنقيب على المنسيين.. الليبيون الذين أسقطهم الرحالة الأوروبيون من حساباتهم: كتُب الرحالة وعلماء الآثار الأوروبيين غيّبت دورَ الليبيين في اكتشاف والحفاظ على آثارهم. alpheratzmag.com/history/%d8%...
‘Trying to define fascism is “like trying to nail jelly to a wall”, yet for all its slipperiness, “fascism” describes a uniquely destructive force in politics, and one for which we don’t have a better word.’
@trillingual.bsky.social
on far-right populism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ursula Lindsey on Mohamed Choukri’s hardscrabble life in the margins of Tangier
Mother of jailed British-Egyptian activist hospitalised after 242 days on hunger strike
Last September, the activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah completed a five-year prison sentence. But the Egyptian authorities announced that his pretrial detention didn’t count, and that he would be held until 2027. In response, his mother began a hunger strike.
Martin Rowson on Donald Trump’s Oval Office clash with Cyril Ramaphosa – cartoon
Tam Hussein: Mo Salah and the Myth of the Good Immigrant
His presence brought hope, inclusion and pride to Liverpool — but no individual can live up to the demands of a divided nation newlinesmag.com/spotlight/mo...
There is no "debate" about crimes against humanity!
I wrote this before the last UK elections, but the thrust of this commentary is just as relevant to Starmer's island of strangers speech as it was to the Tory's Rwanda plan
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