Revolutionary Islam in Iran: Popular Liberation or Religious Dictatorship? by Suroosh Irfani, Zed Books London 1983. I’ve had Iran on my mind for the past few weeks. It’s beginning to bother me. At first, it was because i was reading this book Revolutionary Islam in Iran: Popular Liberation or Religious …
I have a few friends who don’t have access to the internet, and I was thinking of writing something for them about the rebellion in France, a kind of synopsis of what I have been reading and translating. Having written it, I am not sure how coherent it is, but …
Les Femmes du Mont Ararat / The Women of Mount Ararat, a film by Erwann Briand France / 2004 / Betacam SP / 85 min / français, anglais, arabe s.-t.f. Contact: [distributeur] Catherine Le Clef, Doc and Co, 13, rue Portefoin, 75003 Paris, France. T: +33 1 42 77 89 …
Unser AmericaMade in Switzerland / 2005 / 35mm / 84 min / German, Spanish s.-t. French and EnglishContact: [director] Kristina Konrad, Hufelandstraße 42, 10407 Berlin, Allemagne. T: +49 30 42 85 64 09 F: +49 30 42 85 64 11 | konrad@weltfilm.com | www.weltfilm.com The next film I got to …
Now, I know this blog has become something of a Riot Central what with all of the translations from organizations in France about the insurrection in that country, but that was never my intention, nor is it all that will be discussed here. So today, I would like to write …
“Anything could have started it. When you’re an immigrant here, you’re just stuck in your shit. Does it really surprise you it’s going up in flames?” – Momo, Age 26, Aulnay-sous-Bois “The thugs will disappear, I will deploy the force necessary to clean this up… We will use the Karcher …
And now at last, and with some trepidation, on to my final take on Marilyn Waring’s Counting For Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth. I have already discussed this Introduction to the Second Edition, and the First Half of this book in other posts. Suffice it to …
Alright, so as you may notice i have not posted for a couple of days – partly out of mid-week fatigue and partly because i am finding it difficult to figure out exactly what to say about Marilyn Waring’s book Counting For Nothing, which i am now half-way through. …
A couple of newspaper articles in the Montreal Gazette caught my attention yesterday. First off was the statement by police that there is a serial rapist attacking women on the North Shore of Montreal. Between March 2004 and June 2005 at least eight women were attacked after getting off a …
Now I must say, it is a joy to be well rested – this morning I gave into temptation and stole a couple of extra hours sleep, and what a difference that makes! I have just re-read my first blog entries, in part inspired by the nice ego stroke from …