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Earlier this year Kasid returned to his hometown of Basra by invitation of the Ministry of Culture after he translated the C.R. Ramuz-Igor Stravinsky opera The Soldier's Tale into Arabic. He has no plans to return permanently, however, and sees the diaspora as being potentially fruitful for artistic...
Some effin' good news for Tony Soprano from the Italian Supreme Court. The fictional Italian-American mobster, and millions of law-abiding real folk in the old country, can now feel more free (not that Tony ever held back) to use the Italian "V" word that - more or less - corresponds...
Before exploring the reverberations of the verdict - and since we know we can get away with it on an American website, even without the Court's ruling - it is worth being a bit more precise: the Italian word in question is vaffanculo. Unlike the Italian high court, though, we will...
A few months and $54,000 later, Ali was named the 2007 America’s Junior Miss, the winner of a national scholarship competition based on an interview, academics, fitness, self-expression and talent, according to the Junior Miss Web site.
The reason for his conversion to political activism, he says, is that his country is facing the gravest threat to its secularist identity in more than 50 years. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has links, he believes, to Islamic sects that are intent...