Puzzle
Mikey Cordero
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Ana Castillo Muñoz
Poetry for reconstruction and remembrance: a reading by Ana Castillo Muñoz
The singularity of the absurd
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Bruno Elías Maduro
Between illusion and knowledge, science's claim to truth is increasingly fading; instead, intuition, error and doubt mark what we think we know
Memory as resistance
House of Anansi / Su Chang
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Su Chang
Between political amnesia and diaspora experience, Su Chang shows in her compelling debut novel "The Immortal Woman" how violence is perpetuated in bodies and biographies. Even where freedom is promised
My Homeland in the Caves of Death
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Mohammed Al-Mekhlafi
From Siegfried Kracauer to Abdullah Al-Baradouni: Reading Yemen through poetry, fiction, and cultural analysis as a way of tracing the hidden dynamics of power, illusion, and collapse before they surface as reality
The pen that makes thrones tremble
Étienne Carjat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Victor Hugo
How Victor Hugo, through both his words and stance, exposed the tyranny of Napoleon III - and why a pen can be stronger than power, fear and empires
“The best version of us is WE”
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Mthulisi Ndlovu
In "Ubuntu – The Raw Truth Unravelled", Mthulisi Ndlovu frames Ubuntu as a universal, ethical counterforce to modern fragmentation – melding poetic urgency with political, spiritual, and communal critique.
The master of water
ElKashef
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Ahmad Aboukhnegar
Ahmad Aboukhnegar, a little-known Egyptian writer of magical realism
Russian poems on the war against Ukraine
Editions Points
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Examen de conscience – Poésie russe en temps de guerre
Russia's war against Ukraine has now lasted over four years, longer than the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. There is no end in sight. 16 Russian poets question their conscience.
When the war is over, I’ll make you a bigger bed
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Duna Ghali
A short story from Iraq