Friday, 2 October 2009

Islands of Solitude: encountering Hala Al Faysal , Dana Omari Berg

On 9 August 2005, Hala Al Faysal, a Syrian artist, walks into Washington Square Park, New York, to make a solo protest against the continuation of the American war in Iraq and the worsening conditions of life for Palestinians in Gaza.

Dana...

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A dissident in the USSR, a dissident in Putin's Russia, Leonid Keselman

Until recently, the restaurant on Leningradsky Prospect, opposite the monumental Sovyetskaya hotel was called 'Antisovyetskaya'. Portraits of famous Soviet cultural figures, known for their dissident ideas, decorate its walls. In the Moscow...

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