by Split This Rock, Melissa Tuckey | Aug 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Editor’s Note: These poems originally appeared on the website of the Association of Iranian American Writers. A Truth that Has Left Them Shaking Persis M. Karim These are hopeful, dismal days. We sit by a computer waiting for a sliver of light and news to cut...
by John Feffer, Niels Van Tomme | Aug 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Damir Niksic, If I Wasn’t Muslim. 2004. Damir Niksic, a conceptual artist from Bosnia Herzegovina, is best known for his notorious 2005 video installation If I Wasn’t Muslim. Performing a sarcastic song about being a Bosnian Muslim surrounded by Christian...
by John Feffer, Noor Iqbal | Jul 29, 2009 | Women
Post-election turmoil in Iran has brought the country closer to the top of America’s foreign policy concerns. More importantly, though, it has piqued the interests of the American public. Green is the new black, Moussavi and Khamenei have become household names,...
by Jenny Browne, Melissa Tuckey | Jul 28, 2009 | Human Rights, War & Peace
(New $50M Rehab Center Opens on Fort Sam Houston, CBS News, Jan 2007) Wheeled onto the jet leaving my town, another soldier whose pruned body echoes earth liberating itself from gravity. Inside the cave of his grey -hooded shirt he sweats as might a ghost or cello. As...
by Melissa Tuckey, Demetrice Anníta Worley | Jul 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
Amnesty International has confirmed that since 1992 the number of murdered women and girls from and around Ciudad Juárez is 475, and it believes over 5,000 women and girls have disappeared. – Barbara Martinez Jittner, independent film-maker i. On this eve...
