January 2011
Hulu - Children of Invention - Watch the full... →
Excellent film :)
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Wodaabe-Herdsmen of the Sun
$1,300 ticket to Johannesburg, South Africa in April. Very tempted.
Brooklyn College Revokes Professor's Appointment -... →
Last fall, it was an assigned book that brought the Israeli-Palestinian conflict home to Brooklyn College. A wealthy alumnus said he was cutting the college out of his will because all incoming freshmen had been asked to read “How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America,” by Moustafa Bayoumi, a professor there.
This week, it was a course — a graduate seminar on Middle East...
WatchThis song is ABSOLUTELY beautiful. It has been on repeat for about an hour. Songs make me cry from sadness; this song conjures up loving tears. Don’t pass this song by.
dominickbrady:
Spree Wilson ft Esthero - “Don’t Pass Me By”
Off his upcoming EP The Never Ending Now
#ATL
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This is cool. I noticed NPR also used Storify recently and it’s a great way to aggregate information very quickly. I…I am ashamed to say I still don’t have any clue how to use it for any personal projects.
futurejournalismproject:
Al Jazeera English uses curation tool Storify to tell the story of Egypt’s ‘Day of Rage,’ with first-hand accounts from Twitter, Facebook and...
Bloody exhausted. Last day of teaching before quarterly exams. I am going to sleep well tonight.
Secret papers reveal slow death of Middle East... →
The biggest leak of confidential documents in the history of the Middle East conflict has revealed that Palestinian negotiators secretly agreed to accept Israel’s annexation of all but one of the settlements built illegally in occupied East Jerusalem. This unprecedented proposal was one of a string of concessions that will cause shockwaves among Palestinians and in the wider Arab world.
A...
Doctor Allegedly Killed Babies With Scissors →
Dr. Kermit Gosnell Arrested Wednesday Morning
A West Philadelphia abortion doctor has been arrested and charged with 8 counts of murder in the deaths of a woman patient and 7 babies. The bablies were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Slideshow: Mugshots Of The 9 Defendants
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, his wife and 8 other colleagues were arrested overnight...
“The effacement of the clitoris extends even to Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young...”
– The expurgation of the clitoris in the diary of Anne Frank | HTMLGIANT (via caitlinate)
“It’s back! Three-Minute Fiction has returned to weekends on All Things...”
– Three-Minute Fiction Round 6: Laughing And Crying : NPR (via daniellescruggs)
Okhai Ojeikere / Patterns, Post-Colonial Nigeria,... →
Okhai Ojeikere / Patterns, Post-Colonial Nigeria, and Paternal Influence by Kameelah Rasheed (Intern, The Liberator Magazine) At his 80th birthday party, in speaking with the man, who discovered his gift at an early age in the small village of Ogute in Emai in Edo State in 1950, Okhai Ojeikere shares, “Photography is my calling and as a matter of fact, I can’t imagine myself to...
Headscarves and Hymens.
dominickbrady:
“The conversation on Muslim women usually revolves around our head scarves and our hymens — what’s on our heads (or not), what’s between our legs, and the price we pay for it.”
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Let me, a Muslim feminist, confuse you
Mona Eltahawy, once again, in an un-quotable piece (one of those to copy/paste the entire thing, you know) making an eloquent and...
Kiwi, Black Tea, and Salt&Pepper Matzo Crackers. Clearly, this is the breakfast of champions…or of folks who throw sundry food items together to make a early meal.
so-treu asked: Wait, you're an intern at the Liberator Magazine? Then you must know Rob(ert Bland)! He's a friend of mine. Smaaaal world.
so-treu asked: Wait, you're an intern at the Liberator Magazine? Then you must know Rob(ert Bland)! He's a friend of mine. Smaaaal world.
"Space is the Place": Val Wilmer photographs Sun... →
Space is the Place: Val Wilmer Photographs Sun Ra By Kameelah Rasheed (Intern, The Liberator Magazine) “In tomorrow’s world, men will not need artificial instruments such as jets and space ships. In the world of tomorrow, the new man will ‘think’ the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.” -Sun Ra (1956) I have always been seduced by the...
