Archive for January, 2012
• 1,January 23, 2012 •
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Posted in Miscellaneous
Tags: 2012, Chines zodiac, Chinese New Year, events, happiness, inspiration, news, people, power. good liuck, success, Year of the Dragon
• 1,January 22, 2012 •
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Tags: 8th Fire, Aboriginal culture, Aboriginal history, Aboriginal literature, Aboriginal youth, Canada, CBC Books, colonialism, conflict, culture, denial, documentary project, entertainment, fiction, film, identity, Indigenous people, Indigenous writers, literature, Midnight Sweatlodge, multicultural, novel, storytelling, Waubgeshig Rice, youth
• 1,January 22, 2012 •
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Posted in At the Movies
Tags: books, British novelist, Dorian Gray, English literature, entertainment, eternal youth, fiction, film, iPod, literature, media, movies, music taste, obsession, Oscar wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
• 1,January 22, 2012 •
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Tags: Andrew Miller, books, Costa Book Award, fiction, Julian Barnes, literature, Man Booker Prize, novel, Pure, The sense of an ending
• 1,January 20, 2012 •
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Posted in New book
Tags: American Dervish, Ayad Akhtar, Christianity, Dan Brown, debut novel, Feminine in Islam, Islam, Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition, Judiasm, patriarchal monotheistic tradition, Quran, Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses, The Da Vinci Code, views on women
• 1,January 20, 2012 •
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Posted in Art
Tags: 2012 Winter Salon, Amsterdam, art, Aruban artists, design, fashion, Jess Wolff, Jowy Maasdamme, Ken Wolff, photography, Robin de Vogel, SALON1
• 1,January 18, 2012 •
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Tags: blackout strike, ffreedom of expression, free access, freedom of speech, legislation, PIPA, Protect IP Act, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act
• 1,January 15, 2012 •
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Posted in News
Tags: Book festival, books, Catagena de Indias, Colombia, culture, entertainment, events, fiction, fun, Hay Festival, inspiration, literary festival, literature, music, news, novel
• 1,January 15, 2012 •
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Posted in Art
Tags: Ahdaf Soueif, art, books, Islam and art, Islamic art, Masterpieces, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Islamic Art, New York, Reflections on Islamic Art
• 1,January 15, 2012 •
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Posted in Review
Tags: Canadian writer, collection of essays, contemporary literature, dystopic, human imagination, In other worlds, JG Ballard, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, science fiction, The handmaid''s Tale, The Year of the Flood, utopic, yin and yang
• 1,January 15, 2012 •
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Posted in Miscellaneous
Tags: Ahdaf Soueif, Anglo-Egyptian novelist, Arab spring, Cairo, Cairo book, Egypt, Egyptian revolution, events, inspiration, opinion, political and cultural commentator, Tahrir square
• 1,January 15, 2012 •
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Tags: books, Caribbean, Caribbean literature, censorship, Create Dangerously, Edwidge Danticat, Haïti, Haitïan artists, Haitian American writer, immigrant artist, interview, migration, non-fiction, people, review
• 1,January 15, 2012 •
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Posted in At the Movies
Tags: addiction, BBC, Charles Dickens, modern thriller, murder, obsession, The mystery of Edwin Drood, thriller, Victorian period
Writing about the revolution
• 1,January 15, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in Miscellaneous
Tags: Ahdaf Soueif, Anglo-Egyptian novelist, Arab spring, Cairo, Cairo book, Egypt, Egyptian revolution, events, inspiration, opinion, political and cultural commentator, Tahrir square