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The divine sponge

      The Divine Sponge The Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus was a rare bird: a formal innovator immersed in tradition, a politically engaged artist who resisted political classification. Sinan Antoon looks back on his life and work. “What words can do / these days / Is almost nothing” wrote the Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus in The [...]

Women in Iraq; Critique of Israeli Government by Holocaust Survivors

February 18, 2008 Women in Iraq; Critique of Israeli Government by Holocaust Survivors Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – February 18, 2009 at 7:00pm Click to listen (or download)

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