If airports were poems, then my arrival at Dibrugarh Airport was a haiku—short, sweet, and steeped in meaning. There was tea, laughter,
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“Matter delights in music, and became Bach,” Ronald Johnson wrote in his stunning 1980 prose poem about music and the mind. This may be why music so m
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Date: October 17, 2024 Location: Goethe-Zentrum Kampala/Uganda German Cultural Society, Plot 52, Bukoto Street, Kamwokya On October 11, 2024, PEN Ugan
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Whom do we produce knowledge for in violent extremism (VE) research? Despite an array of rich knowledge emanating from VE research, very few studies v
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From the Peace 2000 Institute an d Mirpuri Foundation The award was presented on 8 July 2022 by Thor Magnusson from the Peace 2000 Institute through t
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Local organisation Hurras are working with teachers and protection officers in Idlib to safeguard the wellbeing of children in northwest Syria and the
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The Soul of Uganda Through Song by the Dutch journalist, music archivist and documentary filmmaker, Michiel van Oosterhout, is a lyrical telling of Ug
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“Some say the world will end in fire,” wrote the poet Robert Frost — and for much of 2021, Associated Press photographers captured scenes of a w
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Raoul Peck’s HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes isn’t easy to watch — but it’s important popular education on the 600-year development of the c
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Since the Feb. 1 coup, the military has detained at least nine poets. Two poets, K Zar Win and Myint Myint Zin, were killed March 3.
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An academic and a radical voice of feminism and anti-imperialism in the Arab world, she was constantly persecuted by the Egyptian state and religious
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One hundred years after the birth of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, his meditative reinvention of Indian classical raga music has particular resonance d
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From mounting death tolls in Italy and the US to fractured responses to the global crisis, there is no shortage of tragedy across the globe. But even
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