OMG. She deserves it.

الحصانُ الأسود.. هكذا تمثّلت التجربة السجنية في كتابات الأدباء الليبيين | مجلة الفراتس واجه الكتاب الليبيون تجربة السجون بطرق مختلفة بين كتابة يوميات السجن العادية أو الكتابة الرمزية للتجربة، أو حتى الهروب من الكتابة عنها.

مو مصراتي: الحصانُ الأسود.. هكذا تمثّلت التجربة السجنية في كتابات الأدباء الليبيين | مجلة الفراتس
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The First Post-Reality Political Campaign Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.

Viktor Orban is waging cognitive warfare on a scale no one else has tried before. "Emotions are high because the stakes are high. If he succeeds, he will once again blaze a path that others will follow. And if he loses, an era comes to an end."
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As we continue our #LettersToLFJL series, we’re sharing the reflections that define our 15-year journey.

Today’s letter comes from our trustee @gheblawi.bsky.social who sees these 15 years as far more than just a passing number.

Support our vital work and make your donation double! Help Lawyers for Justice in Libya raise money to support Lawyers for Justice in Libya

It is a journey that requires even more work, and even more hope.

To ensure this commitment continues, we are raising £15,000 by 15 April. If we reach our target, every donation will be doubled by a generous supporter.

Donate to our fundraiser: www.justgiving.com/page/lfjl15

Support our vital work and make your donation double! Help Lawyers for Justice in Libya raise money to support Lawyers for Justice in Libya

For our 15th anniversary, we are raising £15,000 to sustain our mission of defending these voices-and if we reach our target, a generous supporter will match the amount, doubling your impact.

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Power without a throne: how Khalifa Haftar controls Libya – and is answerable to no one The long read: When Nato helped overthrow Gaddafi in 2011, there were hopes of a new beginning. A decade later, this former CIA asset runs the country – and Libya has become yet another lesson in the ...

When #Nato helped overthrow #Gaddafi in 2011, there were hopes of a new beginning. A decade later, this former #CIA asset runs the country – and #Libya has become yet another lesson in the unintended consequences of foreign intervention
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Gordon Brown by James Macintyre review – a very different kind of politician A new biography reveals Brown to be a man of exceptional vision and probity – what a contrast with today’s politics

Gordon Brown by James Macintyre review – a very different kind of politician

Saif Gaddafi killed – was former Libyan ruler’s son assassinated? Libyan officials say they're investigating the death of Saif al Islam Gaddafi, the son of the country's late dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and said they were searching for suspects.

Saif Gaddafi killed – was former Libyan ruler’s son assassinated?

Ten years on from Merkel's "wir schaffen das", German politicians are now asking Syrians to return home.

I marked this bittersweet anniversary by profiling five Syrians who came to Germany as refugees and have changed the country in profound ways - from LGBT activists to artists and doctors.

"Ralph Hubbell has succeeded marvelously in rendering the stream of consciousness of inner offbeat voices within the short stories of the great and notoriously difficult twentieth-century Turkish author Oğuz Atay."

Nice translation praise from MLA's Scaglione Prize committee.

"The world was too ridiculous for me to remain too sad for too long." - Arundhati Roy (Mother Mary Comes to Me)

Cometh the hour, cometh the conman This is how democracy dies: not with a bang but a simper

The political editor of the BBC’s sycophantic coverage of Nigel Farage is a warning of a dark future coming to the UK.
Piece from me on how incitement to racial violence and the promotion of conspiracy theories that might kill children are now given a free pass.

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54 Books By Women From Each Of Africa's 54 Countries Here are 54 books by women from each of Africa’s 54 countries.

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7 Books from Around the World to Read for Women in Translation Month - Electric Literature Don’t miss these translations by women authors writing in Arabic, Kannada, Latvian, and more

“A time to recognize the literary translators whose intense, sustained work has led to the publication of these and other brilliant works of literature, which otherwise would remain unknown to a wider, international audience.” (@ilzeduarte.bsky.social)

What is World Kid Lit Month? World Kid Lit Month is a month to celebrate world literature for kids and teens, especially fiction and nonfiction translated to English from other languages.

A week to go til September, World Kid Lit Month: the month to explore and celebrate international children's literature!

Read a kids' or YA book from or set in another country, or translated from another language. Comment below if you'd like ideas!

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The evolution of famine in Gaza, in maps and charts For the first time, catastrophic levels of hunger have been confirmed in the strip

Over a third of people say they’re going days without eating in Gaza. For now, the confirmed famine is centered in the governorate of Gaza, one of five in the strip. Our maps show where it’s expected to spread by the end of September

من التمر إلى النفط.. مشروع الاستعباد العربي بالنسبة لإمارات الساحل العربي، كان الربيع العربي تهديدًا وجوديًا، ومن هناك كان الاستثمار في نموذجين؛ حكم إسلامي لا يعرف الديمقراطية، أو تفتيت الدول بإبادة ذاكرتها الجماعية.

من التمر إلى النفط.. مشروع الاستعباد العربي manassa.news/stories/2613...

Josephine Quinn · Born on the Beach: Ancient Coastlines Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...

‘Blue Humanities has taken over large parts of the academy in the last decade, bringing the human relationship with oceans, rivers, lakes and seas to the top of the scholarly agenda just as those waters gather to end humanity for good.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

1. 🧵Listen Again: Has the war in Gaza exposed a weakness at the heart of the liberal world order? Omar El Akkad joins @faisalalyafai.bsky.social for a frank and honest discussion about his own relationship to the conflict and its global impact.

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TABKHA - Recipes from under the rubble Writing from her tent in Gaza, chef Mona Zahed shares twenty of her ancestral recipes, lovingly nurtured and recalled. Each dish is illustrated by a different artist, creating a visual feast as delici...

This new cookery book from Gazan chef Mona Zahed looks beautiful. Slingshot Books writes: "100% of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go directly to the author and her community." Delivery is expected Feb. 2025.

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The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.

The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth: #Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.

By Anne Applebaum
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Rachel is saying what we all knew. The GOP are hiding from their constituents and the reason is because they are demanding answers.

#USDemocracy

Enter the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize The 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, the sixteenth edition of the prestigious prize, is open from 30 January to 30 June.

Just two weeks left to enter the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize! If you have been working on some fiction, life writing, or poetry, now is the time to submit.

The prize is open internationally, and is accepting translations for the first time in it's fifteen-year history.

المنسيّون في قصة الآثار الليبية | مجلة الفراتس يشاع في ليبيا استخفاف أهلها بإرثهم الثقافي. يدحض هذا المقال هذه الرواية من كتُب المستكشفين والرحالة في ليبيا، الذين احتقروا أهالي البلد.

التنقيب على المنسيين.. الليبيون الذين أسقطهم الرحالة الأوروبيون من حساباتهم: كتُب الرحالة وعلماء الآثار الأوروبيين غيّبت دورَ الليبيين في اكتشاف والحفاظ على آثارهم. alpheratzmag.com/history/%d8%...

Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism? Are​ we, as Richard Seymour suggests, ‘in the early days of a new fascism’? In Disaster Nationalism, Seymour...

‘Trying to define fascism is “like trying to nail jelly to a wall”, yet for all its slipperiness, “fascism” describes a uniquely destructive force in politics, and one for which we don’t have a better word.’

@trillingual.bsky.social
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Mohamed Choukri’s Unromantic Tangier | Ursula Lindsey The Moroccan writer's works are a bracing corrective to the myth of his city as a glamorous, bohemian playground.

Ursula Lindsey on Mohamed Choukri’s hardscrabble life in the margins of Tangier

Mother of jailed British-Egyptian activist hospitalised after 242 days on hunger strike Laila Soueif continues protest against detention of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Cairo The mother of the imprisoned British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been admitted to hospital after spending more than 240 days on hunger strike. Laila Soueif’s family said she had been admitted to St Thomas’ hospital in London on Thursday night with dangerously low blood sugar levels, but continues to refuse medical intervention that would provide her with calories. Continue reading...

Mother of jailed British-Egyptian activist hospitalised after 242 days on hunger strike

Letter From London episode 67: My dad's box Letter form London · Episode

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