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“Racism Is as British as a Cup of Tea”: Kehinde Andrews Says Many Black Brits Don’t Mourn the Queen

Sep 19, 2022

As Monday’s state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II marks the end of a national period of mourning in Britain, we speak with the U.K.’s first professor of Black studies, Kehinde Andrews, about the generational difference in perceptions of the queen within his Jamaican family, which he lays out in his recent essay, “I Don’t Mourn the Queen.” He also describes the brutal legacy of the British slave trade and the British Empire, which makes the monarchy a symbol of white supremacy that should not be mourned, but rather abolished. “This is an old institution — deeply racist, deeply classist, deeply patriarchal. It just needs to go. And this is the perfect time to discuss when it should end,” says Andrews.

MAGA’S ‘Weaponized Lies’: Trump Touts QAnon, Posing Danger For GOP Ahead Of Midterms

Sep 19, 2022

A bizarre Trump rally in Ohio for GOP Senate candidate, J.D. Vance is putting the GOP in a bind. The New York Times reports music Trump played resembled a QAnon song and the crowds reacted to it with a salute. It comes after Trump openly embraced QAnon conspiracy theories online and in recent actions. The Washington Post saying it amounted to Trump asking “QAnon to stand back and stand by.” MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the rally and “the main-lining of weaponized lies and hate in the GOP and America.”

UN Chief on SDG Moment | Sustainable Development Goals | United Nations

Sep 19, 2022

Remarks by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN, on the SDG Moment 2022.

Opening the Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) Moment in New York, UN Secretary-General said the meeting happens “at a critical point” in the world and urged countries to take more action.

Listing several crises, António Guterres said that “each peril is pushing the Sustainable Development Goals further out of reach.”

According to the UN chief, in the face of such perils, “it is tempting to put our long-term development priorities to one side. To leave them for a sunny day. But development cannot wait.”

“The education of our children cannot wait. Dignified jobs cannot wait. Full equality for women and girls cannot wait. Comprehensive health care, meaningful climate action, biodiversity protection — these cannot be left for tomorrow,” said the Secretary-General.

Guterres said everyone must “do more to lift up women and girls in every walk of life” and to “save our planet — which is quite literally on fire.”

For the UN chief, this means “addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss and pollution” and moving away from a “suicidal dependence” on fossil fuels and jump-starting the renewable energy transition in every country.

Exclusive interview with UN Secretary-General: Are we doing enough on climate change?

Sep 17, 2022

Take a look at part of our exclusive interview with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who recently visited Pakistan and witnessed first-hand the devastating effects of climate change. CGTN’s Dezhi Xu asked Guterres about the responsibility developed countries have in mitigating the global issue of climate change.

Blackout in Puerto Rico: Whole Island Loses Power Amid Hurricane Fiona as Privatized Grid Collapses

Sep 19, 2022

More than 1.5 million people are in the dark after Hurricane Fiona knocked the power out across all of Puerto Rico Sunday, triggering floods and landslides. We go to San Juan for an update from Democracy Now! correspondent Juan Carlos Dávila, who describes how privatization of the island’s electrical grid coupled with a legacy of U.S. colonialism “has really caused the crisis.” We also speak with former San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz as President Biden has declared a national emergency and federal aid pours in. “The distribution has to be robust and has to be people-centered and community-centered,” notes Cruz.

Stronger & Wetter: Michael Mann on How Climate Change Makes Storms Worse & Why We Must Cut Emissions

Sep 19, 2022

Climate Week kicks off this week in New York City as more than 150 world leaders gather for the U.N. General Assembly and as Hurricane Fiona rips through Puerto Rico, Typhoon Nanmadol slams southern Japan, and Typhoon Merbok floods parts of western Alaska. We speak to climate scientist Michael Mann about how climate change has changed the pattern of tropical storms, and what needs to happen to address the crisis. He says rising global temperatures have worsened the effects of storms like these, and more aggressive climate legislation from Congress is needed. “We are experiencing devastating consequences of past climate inaction, and it really drives home the importance of taking action now,” says Mann.

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Justice Kagan Warns Legitimacy Of Supreme Court Is On The Line

Sep 18, 2022

Following the Dobbs decision ending the right to abortion access, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is warning the legitimacy of the Court is at stake. Michele Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine joined American Voices with Alicia Menendez to discuss the fallout of the end of Roe.

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems: Darwish, Mahmoud, Antoon, Si nan, El-Zein, Amira, Akash, Munir, Forché, Carolyn, Joudah, Fady

Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. A legend in Palestine, his lyrics are sung by fieldworkers and schoolchildren. He has assimilated some of the world’s oldest literary traditions while simultaneously struggling to open new possibilities for poetry. This collection spans Darwish’s entire career, nearly four decades, revealing an impressive range of expression and form. A splendid team of translators has collaborated with the poet on these new translations, which capture Darwish’s distinctive voice and spirit. Fady Joudah’s foreword, new to this edition, addresses Darwish’s enduring legacy following his death in 2008.

Review

“Darwish’s complex linguistic negotiations of deeply contested places, on the earth and in the mind, demand and sustain serious reading and discussion. . . . [Forché’s] fluid and precise approach to translation is everywhere apparent here.” ― Publishers Weekly

“These translations of Mahmoud Darwish’s marvelous poems reveal the lifelong development of a major world poet. The book is a gift to other poets and lovers of poetry. It’s also an important contribution to current and future discourse on culture and politics.” ― American Poet

“This book is a beautiful rendering of beautiful verse. It is an important contribution in making accessible an important figure in modern Arab culture. Unfortunately, It Was Paradise demonstrates that Darwish is a poet of our time as well as a poet of all times.” ― Journal of Palestine Studies

“This book—perhaps the most important, available, and representative volume of Darwish to date—is really remarkable. It’s striking how this poet is so much at once and as a whole: personal and political, ‘experimental’ yet lyrically so, informed by philosophy yet reminiscent of prayer.” ― PopMatters

From the Inside Flap

“These translations of Mahmoud Darwish’s marvelous poems reveal the lifelong development of a major world poet. The book is a gift to other poets and lovers of poetry. It’s also an important contribution to current and future discourse on culture and politics.”—Adrienne Rich, author of Fox: Poems, 1996-2000

“At this critical moment in world relations, cultural, creative projects feel more necessary than ever. Celebrate this most comprehensive gathering of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry ever translated into English. Darwish is the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people, and the collaboration between translators Akash and Forché is a fine mingling of extraordinary talents. The style here is quintessential Darwish—lyrical, imagistic, plaintive, haunting, always passionate, and elegant—and never anything less than free—what he would dream for all his people.”—Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Fuel

From the Back Cover

“These translations of Mahmoud Darwish’s marvelous poems reveal the lifelong development of a major world poet. The book is a gift to other poets and lovers of poetry. It’s also an important contribution to current and future discourse on culture and politics.”―Adrienne Rich, author of Fox: Poems, 1996-2000

“At this critical moment in world relations, cultural, creative projects feel more necessary than ever. Celebrate this most comprehensive gathering of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry ever translated into English. Darwish is the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people, and the collaboration between translators Akash and Forché is a fine mingling of extraordinary talents. The style here is quintessential Darwish―lyrical, imagistic, plaintive, haunting, always passionate, and elegant―and never anything less than free―what he would dream for all his people.”―Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Fuel

About the Author

Mahmoud Darwish (1941 – 2008) was the author of over thirty books of poems, including Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (California, 1995), The Adam of Two Edens (2001), and Psalms (1994). He received the 2001 Prize for Cultural Freedom from the Lannan Foundation.

Munir Akash is a founding editor of Jusoor, The Arab American Journal of Cultural Exchange, and coeditor of The Adam of Two Edens (2001) and Post Gibran: Anthropology of New Arab American Writing (2000). Carolyn Forché is Professor of English at George Mason University and author of The Angel of History (1994). Sinan Antoon is coeditor of Arab Studies Journal. Amira El-Zein is the author of Bedouin of Hell (1992) and The Book of Palm Trees (1973).

Fady Joudah is a prize-winning poet, translator, and physician. He is the author of The Earth in the Attic (2008) and Alight (2013), and the translator of two volumes of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry, The Butterfly’s Burden (2007) and If I Were Another (2009).

• Publisher‏ : ‎ University of California Press; First edition (April 15, 2013)
• Language‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback‏ : ‎ 224 pages
• ISBN-10‏ : ‎ 0520273036
• ISBN-13‏ : ‎ 978-0520273030
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
• Dimensions‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.7 x 8 inches