January 17, 2022 Martin Luther King Day, USA. By BNimri Azi “Mahteen”, she said, meeting my eyes for the first time while she attended to the papers that I’d set on her desk. I was in Oran, Algeria, being assisted…
Etel Adnan, 1950s, as student in France Jan 8/2022 by B Nimri Aziz There are perhaps five million Arabs who identify as Americans, our earliest ancestors having arrived here almost two centuries ago. Many more Arab migrants reside in Canada,…
by Barbara Nimri Aziz. December 7, 2021 Syria military map Jan. 2017 from U. Texas, T. VanLinge (unverified) It’s long past time for a reckoning by Washington on its disastrous policy in Syria. Instead of addressing the scope and venality…
Comedian Dave Chappelle: from Chappelle’s Show By B Nimri Aziz Have you noticed: moral issues are no longer the domain of clerics and philosophers? Not politicians either. Our ethics, however capricious they’ve become, evolve largely from the mega entertainment industry.…
V-P Kamala Harris: Waiting in the Wing www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/26/how-one-ballsy-senator-stole-a-presidents-gummy-candy/ By Barbara Nimri Aziz October 26, 2021 Where’s Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote power? Celebrated as the first U.S. woman vice president, Harris would also head the U.S. Senate, Congress’s more powerful wing.…
September 11, 2021, By B Nimri Aziz Again, I’m turning off all media and staying home. I have my own memories, and my own intelligence– not just of that day, but the manic weeks and decades that followed. Chants…