A depiction of USA Muslims without violence & with loving family relationships is refreshing. "Zahra and the Oil Man" has a twist & satisfying resolution & more than just representational value. https://bit.ly/2WMtvsV #film #RepresentationMatters #Newark #NewJersey #girlpower
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Film: "Zahra and the Oil Man" by Yucef Mayes
My local NBC affiliate substituted "African American Short Films" by BamadiTV for the repeatedly postponed Baltimore Ravens versus Pittsbur...
Might "Lamya's Poem" from Unity Productions Foundation have been simpler to digest had it restricted itself to a more straightforward narrative & less avant-garde visuals? Perhaps, but shouldn't Muslim media productions go beyond mac & cheese to a more nuanced & subtle dish? https://bit.ly/3Zf7vVn
Forwarded from CSRA Peace Announcements
Vigil tomorrow - Nuclear weapons production hearings this week https://mailchi.mp/8c81e3d37615/202500526
Börgen Episode 23 "The Right Shade of Brown" & Issue of "Integration" #Denmark #Europe #immigration #migrants #paternalism http://bit.ly/29sW6bT
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Börgen Episode 23 "The Right Shade of Brown" and the Issue of "Integration"
Adam Price surrounded by the cast of his political drama Borgen I watch Börgen on Link TV . In season 3, the series's protagonist Birgit...
Review: Samarkand by Amin Maalouf http://bit.ly/2ae5zYr #Colonialism #fiction #Iran #Poetry #Sufism #USA #History #OmarKhayyam
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Review: Samarkand by Amin Maalouf
Maalouf, Amin . Samarkand . New York: Interlink Books ; 1996. ISBN: 1566561949. Paperback. 301 pp. This is the first historical fiction no...
Should Georgians be concerned public safety officers exchange notes with war criminals of Apartheid Israel? https://bit.ly/44u6rQf #police
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Why Should the Name Avi Dichter Be Familiar to Georgians?
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من الحكام العرب على شعوبهم زجل قلته بمناسبة حضور الرئيس الأمريكي دانلد ترامب مؤتمر الرياض في المملكة العربية السعودية https://bit.ly/2HT3670
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زجل قلته بمناسبة حضور الرئيس الأمريكي دانلد ترامب مؤتمر الرياض في المملكة العربية السعودية في 2017-05-21
Songs featured in AMC TV Quest Love "Hip-Hop: Songs that Shook America" https://bit.ly/2JlpB3C
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Playlist of Songs Featured in AMC’s Series “Hip Hop”
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Before reading "Green Illusions" by Ozzie Zehner, I had never entertained serious doubts that humanity could continue to expand its energy production as long as it used "clean" & "renewable" energy such as solar, wind, tidal and (one day!) nuclear fusion https://bit.ly/3owjWen
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Review: "Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism" by Ozzie Zehner
I watched the documentary Planet of the Humans and acquired Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmen...
My public #library in Columbia County, #Georgia removed Theresa Thorn's book "It Feels Good to Be Yourself" in response to the demands of people who hated that Noah Grigni drew the #transgender children too happy #bookbanning #censorship https://bit.ly/3FUX02K
What does a settlement reveal about #prison #humanrights abuses near #Atlanta #Georgia #USA? #ATL #gapol #AccountabilityInCorrections Act #Abolition https://twitter.com/i/events/1485297999266066432
Umberto Eco: Heresy & Ur-Fascism http://bit.ly/29sA4pk #literature #philosophy #politcalscience #liberalism #fascism #religion
Review: Carl Sagan: The Demon-Haunted World: #Science as a Candle in the Dark http://bit.ly/2abF2L0 #USA #History #Religion
Cnty in #Georgia uses EVerify, collects fines on I-75 & provides lifestyle "with equity & morality" rdy 4 #terrorism https://bit.ly/3OS8BDy
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Turner County, Georgia is Prepared for Terrorism, or Why Didn’t I Get in on the Counter-Terrorism Boondoggle?
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"Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war" - Carlos Ruiz Zafón in "The Shadow of the Wind" https://bit.ly/2tJdi93
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Favorite Quotes: Carlos Ruiz Zafón on War in "The Shadow of the Wind"
Lucia Graves translated Carlos Ruiz Zafón 's La Sombra del Viento as The Shadow of the Wind . Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than w...
Free Academic Monograph eBooks from U of California Press through the Luminos Project #publishing #OpenAccess #Academia #History https://bit.ly/34DxexT
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Free eBooks from U of California Press through the Luminos Project
Luminos is a University of California Press project to publish scholarly monographs and provide Open Access to their electronic versions.
The response in liberal industrialized nations to communism was some limited, positive internal reform. Response to Islamism has been regressive, atavistic nationalism. In that regard at least, Soviet communism, whatever its flaws, was better than Islamism https://bit.ly/33ovWpt
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Recommendation: India in the West: South Asians in America by Ronald Takaki
I remember attending an Asian Students Association meeting at the University of Virginia to hear from the guest lecturer Ronald Takaki , w...
.@TheShadowsFX portrays service economy’s treatment of #labor in person of Guillermo @harveyguillen & the white collar office, the favorite hunting ground of Colin Robinson @m_proksch, the energy vampire
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We Are All Guillermo – FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows” Reminds Me of Jobs I’ve Had
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What term should we use to describe Obama, who fulfills the mission of an agent provacteur, namely disrupting movements and organizations, by convincing people to take less radical stances & less effective measures?https://bit.ly/41NO9ca
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Obama has the same function as an agent provocatuer, but he does it by co-opting radical demands. Agent somnatuer?
Obama fulfills the mission of an agent provacteur, namely disrupting movements and organizations, by convincing people to take less radical stances & less effective measures. He is an agent som…
Read Greg Grandin's book "Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States & the Making of an Imperial Republic"! Here's a few quotes & thoughts. https://twitter.com/i/events/1478404034516045825 #history #imperialism #neoliberalism #colonialism #Caribbean #CentralAmerica #SouthAmerica #USA #Mexico