www.worldliteraturetoday.org
“Through a sort of grating irony,” writes Charif Majdalani, Lebanon “remains a sort of model but in the negative sense of the term, because it concentrates in itself all the problems of the contemporary world.” Will it someday regain its role as a positive model?
Amid Israel's deluge of fire, seemingly redrawing the contours of a new Middle East, their absence might almost have gone unnoticed. Yet, it's a significant moment for the families of the...
Police detain anti-nuclear activists, prevent protests during run-up to the vote.
A history of discrimination and violence in Lebanon makes Syrian refugees especially vulnerable, but returning home is not a safe option.
A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to prison for royal defamation over a 2021 post on X (formerly Twitter) about King Vajiralongkorn. He was later given a one-year suspended sentence on the grounds that he had never participated in any political protests.
news.mongabay.com
MAKASSAR, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities have arrested a 72-year-old South Korean national for allegedly running a sand quarrying operation in a protected forest area in West Sulawesi province. The incident marks a rare instance of a foreign citizen charged with environmental crimes in the world’s largest archipelagic country.
Since last Monday, heavy Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed at least 700 people, according to the latest numbers compiled by the Ministry of Health, following the launch that day of the Israeli...
www.thedial.world
France knew the pesticide chlordecone could cause cancer and destroy the environment. It allowed banana plantations in Martinique and Guadeloupe to use it anyway.
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this article features links to three poetry films by ghayath al-madhoun:
(1) the city (2) your memory is my freedom (3) the celebration
arablit.org
Syria-born Palestinian poet Ghayath al-Madhoun is one of the few poets who write in Arabic to have achieved international acclaim in the art of poetry filmmaking.
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any guess why visibility on lemmy has been heavily affected, whereas from microfedi things looked normal?
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no, you are not banned :)
modlog can confirm ;)
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fedia.io has federation problems in general at the moment > see https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/1226511
before i posted this thread, i had also checked the lemmy.world modlog to see whether i got banned etc - not at all
for two days, threads posted on fedia.io magazines apparently do not show up on lemmy > this does not only affect the poetry magazine, but also https://fedia.io/m/FloatingIsFun - i guess the same applies to other fedia.io magazines > i have already checked both lemmy.world and infosec.pub: no new threads show up
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from the article:
An Istanbul court on Sept. 18 held the first hearing of author Yavuz Ekinci on "terrorism propaganda" charges for his novel Dreams Divided (Rüyası Bölünenler) published in 2014.
The trial began with the attendance of many authors and civil society representatives.
In his defense, Ekinci rejected all charges and drew attention to the conditions leading to the banning of his book.
"Dreams Divided is the story of my home, my people, my village, my country. It is the story of those who wait endlessly by the window, in front of the TV, for news of their sons, daughters, or fathers. Whether you call them Saturday Mothers or Diyarbakır Families, Dreams Divided tells the story of this land,” he explained.
Ekinci continued, “What troubles me the most in this case, and what I’ve tried to understand since I first heard about it, is the mindset of the person who reported my novel to the Presidential communication system CİMER on the night of the second day of the massive Feb. 6 earthquake.”
“Amidst this horror, on the night of Feb. 7, someone took the time to report my novel to CİMER, accusing me of terror propaganda. While I felt ashamed even to sit, eat, or talk during those days, someone reported my book, thinking they were being patriotic,” the author said.
Ekinci held that his novel was a work of fiction. “The fact that the fictional world I created seems real to the court speaks to the power of my literature and the court’s approach to fiction. Suing a fictional universe is abstract. Judging, banning, and seizing it in today’s courts is political. To judge an artist based on characters and their words is an insult to art,” he contended.
The court decided to inquire with the Istanbul Security Branch Directorate about the publication date of Ekinci’s Dreams Divided and referred the case to the prosecution for an opinion on the merits. The trial was adjourned to Dec. 9.
Following the hearing, Ekinci made a statement in front of the courthouse. “This is not just a case against me, but a warning to all authors. No one can tell a writer what to write or how to write. We want literature to be discussed through new styles, not lawsuits,” he said.
What happened?
Following a complaint to CİMER on Feb. 7, 2023, one day after the Feb. 6 earthquakes, an investigation was launched into Yavuz Ekinci’s novel Dreams Divided, published by Doğan Kitap in 2014.
On March 14, 2023, Istanbul’s 7th Criminal Court of Peace issued a decision to seize the books. Following this, the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office also initiated an investigation.
(English version by Ayşenaz Toptaş)
www.duvarenglish.com
Author Yavuz Ekinci appeared in court on Sept. 18, facing charges of "terror propaganda" related to his novel *Rüyası Bölünenler* (Dreams Divided), which was published ten years ago and seized following a complaint made to the presidential complaint system *CİMER* on Feb. 7, 2023.
news.mongabay.com
Just 0.7% of the world’s land surface is home to one-third of the world’s most threatened and unique four-legged animals, a recent study has found. In the vast evolutionary tree of life, some animals, like rats, have many closely related species that are at no immediate risk of extinction. But others, like the red panda […]
news.mongabay.com
In 2022, the government of Tanzania began forcibly evicting thousands of Indigenous Maasai from 1,500 square kilometers, nearly 600 square miles, of their ancestral land to make way for elite tourism in the renowned Ngorongoro Conservation Area. A large group of Maasai recently blocked the road leading to Ngorongoro, protesting the evictions and denial of […]
The Buzuruna Juzuruna agroecology association travels around Lebanon in September to screen documentaries that poetically demonstrate the need for the Lebanese to preserve their environment.
www.eastmojo.com
The ongoing discourse surrounding the repatriation of Naga ancestral human remains from the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, UK, has sparked critical reflections among the Naga community.
www.rnz.co.nz
Some 56 nations from around the world will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa next month.
thediplomat.com
The Maung Shwe Lay Navy Base is the first major Myanmar Navy facility to fall to resistance forces.
www.eastmojo.com
On September 1, 2024, two teenage boys, aged 15 and 16, from Zokhawthar village in Mizoram, were abducted by the Chin Defense Force (CDF) in Myanmar.
dialogue.earth
The small Caribbean island is struggling to deal with environmental and economic damage from algae inundation
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there had been many other options than gigantism, and if the capital reaaaaaaally had to be moved, why not to lampung (not far away from jakarta, no shortage of water supplies, lower risks of floods etc)? instead, "nusantara" is a typical croonie program, with orang koruptor filling their pockets, and leaving damage to the rest, driving away indigenous population etc
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federation issues plague mbin to a point that surpasses kbin, time and again ... federation between kbin and friendica had always been troublefree ...
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the interconnections do not end at this point: peepal tree not only helped to establish peekash (run today by [bocas lit fest](https://www.bocaslitfest.com/ of trinidad and tobago), but peepal tree also recently integrated hoperoad publishing, yet another great uk indie dedicated to literature from the global south
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