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Category: Columns

28 February, 2021 • Mara Ahmed

Decolonizing Art for Art’s Sake

Culture critic and filmmaker Mara Ahmed deconstructs three versions of an opéra-ballet to get at the heart of western racism in mainstream dance performance.

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24 February, 2021 • Ammiel Alcalay

To the Light—Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 1919-2021

Ammiel Alcalay remembers an American original, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who was also the publisher and doyen of City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco.

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14 January, 2021 • Francisco Letelier

On Desert Planets, Meditations on “Dune”

Francisco Letelier on the lingering memories of Dune as a metaphor for a struggling planet.

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14 January, 2021 • I. Rida Mahmood

On American Democracy and Empire, a Corrective

The MAGA movement is not a cause but a consequence of GOP policies, and its instantaneous vanishing with Trump's political demise is unlikely.

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10 January, 2021 • Iason Athanasiadis

Remember 2020 Not for Covid-19 or Trump Chaos, But Climate Change

Columnist Iason Athanasiadis remembers 2020 not so much for the pandemic or the chaos of Trump but what humankind has wrought on nature.

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26 October, 2020 • Jordan Elgrably

A Beheading for the Prophet and a Reckoning for France

Jordan Elgrably on rising tensions in France and in the Arab/Muslim world follow Samuel Paty's beheading at the hands of a young Islamic radical who was shot dead by police.

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3 December, 2018 • Tony Litwinko

The Dream of Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim

An Angeleno assesses The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.

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1 October, 2018 • Jordan Elgrably

A Humanitarian Catastrophe: Understanding the War in Yemen

Why is it that Americans know so little about Yemen, why has the country seemed so off the radar to us?

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