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Poetry Community as a Well of Ginhawa (Well-being) in these Pandemic Times
TALK/PRESENTATION My talk can be summed up in three things: First, the context and my experience during this pandemic time. Second, the Well of Ginhawa, and its related metaphors. And third, how I started and built this poetry community.…
A Conversation about the Criminal Justice System in Sci-fi with Matthew Baker, Author of “Life Sentence”
INTERVIEW Once I read the short story “Life Sentence” in Lightspeed Magazine, I decided to save it to my collections of short stories I should revisit. It was 2019, and Matthew Baker was on my radar.…
Love For Living Animals: Barbary Lions Only in Captivity?
ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas, roundworms,…
Poetic Openings in the Time of Covid 19
POETRY <A Prelude> In the early days of the Co-vid 19 pandemic, everyone was trying to come to grips with the isolation that the lockdown imposed on almost everyone. Anxiety over the unknown was…
French pharmacy student the first winner of basic income raffle
On June 16, 2021, the first one-year basic income of 800 euros by the UBI4ALL initiative was raffled. The live online event was attended by 6,100 viewers from almost all European countries, such as Greece, Malta, Finland, the United Kingdom,…
Face 2 Face with Mel Lehman
On this show we speak with Mel Lehman founded and director of Common Humanity. Common Humanity is a non-profit organization based in New York City which seeks to build understanding, respect and friendship with the Middle East and Muslim world.…
North-west Syria: humanitarian catastrophe without the renewal of UN resolution
The UN resolution for humanitarian aid through the Bab Al-Hawa crossing expires on 10 July 2021: if it is not renewed, the lives of 3.4 million people will be in thrall to Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. The appeal of Still I…
Carlos Lazo: The Cuban American Leading the Charge to Transform U.S.-Cuba Policy
Carlos Lazo and a small band of Cuban Americans are on a 1,300-mile pilgrimage from Miami to Washington, D.C., to end the U.S. blockade of Cuba. Despite the blistering summer heat and occasional death threats (including a trucker who tried…
bird, Africa No Filter’s story agency, goes live
Africa No Filter (ANF), the not-for-profit organisation focused on narrative change, has launched bird, Africa’s first, optimized-for-mobile, story agency designed to shift narratives about and within the continent. By Kester Kenn Klomegah Africa No Filter Executive Director, Moky Makura, said…
4-day week in Iceland: Almost 9 out of 10 Icelanders are entitled to work shorter hours
Iceland has undertaken the largest trial of a 4-day-week, globally. It has been such an outstanding success that 86 percent of Iceland’s employees have either already adopted it, or at least have the possibility of working shorter hours. This experiment…
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