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Buried under The Genocide Debate: Desecrated Graves

also carried in Counterpunch Feb 7, 2024 by Barbara Nimri Aziz It’s hard to imagine this happening in modern times. Even an assault on a single grave is…

“MK – Mandela’s Secret Army”: film review

by B Nimri Aziz Nov 16, 2023 Revolutionaries are sometimes forgotten, despite their mission having been successful. Their struggle over, it’s often condensed to a single heroic figure,…

From Where Will The Breakthrough Come for Julian Assange?

by B Nimri Aziz 09.13.23 Julian Assange is still imprisoned; journalism’s future is still in jeopardy. Delegates from Australia’s parliament are headed to Washington to appeal to the…

Safe and Secure? Or Stressed and Scared

August 29, 2023 by Barbara Nimri Aziz also see Counterpunch          “Why don’t you just report it to the town council, with a photo of that cluttered yard,”…

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…

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…