June 2012
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Green Prophet: Egypt's Beautiful Library
This fall Egypt’s grandiose Bibliotheca Alexandria will celebrate its tenth birthday…
Read more at the Green Prophet
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Rumpus Review: The Loss Library and Other...
In his recent blend of fiction, essays, and literary genealogy,The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories, South African writer Ivan Vladislavic delves into the dazzling enigmas of unwritten work. He draws from his personal notebooks over the past two decades and uses writer’s block, the writer’s ultimate pestilence, as a source for inspiration. This book is short, sweet and thought...
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Migrant Rape Furor in Israel & Women Helping Women
Photo by Alex Levac
The Hagar and Miriam Project has helped over 400 African migrant women in Israel since 2007. It has always operated on a shoe string, but the aftermath of an anti-immigrant backlash to cases of rape in Tel Aviv has brought fundraising to a standstill…read more from my article published by Women’s eNews.
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Poem From Someone That I Used To Know
When I lived in East Jerusalem, so many moons ago, I had a flatmate named Iftach. He was a philosopher, a poet, a pianist, a composer and lyricist, an impish Casanova and a janitor.
He showed me his first English experiment, writing in a foreign tongue. It rocked my world. The crisp, bare elegance of his words astounded me. This encounter inspired me to play in the language of Luis Cernuda and...
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Environment & Art in Israel
Israeli Opera Festival 2012 : Carmen
Israeli Opera Festival 2012 featured five performances of the classic opera, Carmen, June 7 to 11 at Masada. “We wanted to perform opera in the desert, not just to have an opera performance at a desert location,” said the Israeli Opera’s Artistic Director, Michael Ajzenstadt.
“There is no stage. There is sand and rock beneath the mountain. The set is...
