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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela Revisited

By BNimri Aziz 04/27/23 It was only when I started reading a collection of this remarkable African leader’s prison letters (records from 1962 to 1990) gathered in a…

Identifying Your Neighbors

by B Nimri Aziz March 2023 Catskills River Reporter There’s something living in my basement that wasn’t there before. I’ve always cohabited comfortably with mice and moles, voles…

Menacing Winter Wonder

by BNimri Aziz Feb 5, 2023 Counterpunch Those images from the December blizzard engulfing Buffalo in upstate New York were shocking. Hard to grasp the reality. That ghostliness…

Etel Adnan, Esteemed Poet and Artist might well inquire about her missing Arab companions, as the outstanding New York exhibition of her art draws to a close

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…

Year End Review of Some Good Books

by Barbara Nimri Aziz Mine is not a list of new releases. I’m moving backwards–a positive move. That is to say, I’m not reading the latest Arab American…

Anthony Shadid 1968-2012

by Barbara Nimri Aziz updated Dec. 2020 In a short obscure film clip from our mourned brother Anthony Shadid, the award winning writer spoke with a compassion and…

Snow, roads, birds and plows

By Barbara Nimri Aziz, Counterpunch,org Feb 1, 2019 Shrugging off what’s called cabin fever, I depart, slowly, to test my car and traction on the roadway. I follow…

Just Another Spring in Progress?

APRIL 24, 2019, Counterpunch.org My corner of New York’s Catskill Mountains is shortly due to explode in green. Today however, it’s brown, beige, russet and auburn:– a wrapping…

Tibetan Pottery

Published in Ceramics Monthly, March 1993. By Barbara Nimri Aziz. Tibet’s otherwise bleak, brown land­ scape is sometimes broken by rust-col- ored hillocks. Located just beyond the mud…

Tibetan Manuscript Maps of Dingri Valley

Originally published in The Canadian Cartographer, Vol 12.1. 1975 An examination of Dingri Valley Tibetan maps. Townscapes of the area are discussed, and, throughout the paper attention is…