by Majid Naficy, Melissa Tuckey | Jul 28, 2009 | Human Rights
In Memory of Saeed One day my father called us and said: I have three gifts for you — A red heart, an hourglass, and… O God, I don’t remember the other one. Mehdy took the heart Opened its two halves And strummed the strings of its chambers. I took...
by John Feffer, Ethan Pack | Jul 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
A chaikhana is a Central Asian teahouse where poets and performers — men and (unveiled) women — sing verses and recite prose in a conversational atmosphere with fellow patrons. In New York, last month’s Muslim Voices festival recreated a chaikhana to...
by John Feffer, Niels Van Tomme | Jun 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
EU Green Card Lottery: Registration Office, installation view, exhibition “The Embassy / Apocalypse Now”, Paris, 2007 Hungarian-born Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy of France established Société Réaliste (Realist Society) in...
by John Feffer, David Alan Harris | Jun 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
Jeremiah charges into the hall in an uproar after ditching his bike just outside the door in the blazing heat of a Sierra Leone dry season. The wiry, athletic, 17-year-old former child soldier once told me he had started killing before he knew his own age. Now he...
by E. Ethelbert Miller, Melissa Tuckey | Jun 15, 2009 | War & Peace
In the beginning we will all wear black hoods Our faces will be hidden from history Someone will tie a cruel footnote to our genitals It might be our neighbor disguised as God
