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Hong Kong people consecrate it as a collective, communal memory of a struggle for liberty soaked in blood. But in the end, the nation’s economic reforms offer far greater personal freedoms, and freedom from want, to far greater numbers of Chinese than anything that could have been achieved by the students and workers in 1989

El colectivo uruguayo realizó una nueva campaña de visibilización a través de las redes, en el marco de la 26 Marcha del Silencio

In 2016, Diana García had just started her Ph.D. in childhood studies at Rutgers University–Camden when news came from her native Colombia: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos had signed an historic peace accord, ending years of a bloody narcotics trafficking war that engulfed the country. A mural that reads “Memory of dreams and hopes” in San Carlos. Photo: Diana Diana García The childhood studies scholar watched curiously how, in this ...

Families of Flight 93’s passengers and crew members, who died while fighting back against hijackers, are looking to honor a hero to raise awareness about Sept. 11.

NOW Magazine Outdoor art installations to light up Queen East The eight light installations are part of the month-long outdoor art exhibition Luminosity By Julia Mastroianni Courtesy of The Beach Village BIA Beacon Silo, one of eight installations included in the exhibition, acts as both a lighthouse and disco ball. Queen East will be home to eight new light installations as part of the Luminosity outdoor art exhibition opening on Saturday, March 13. The installations are spread out a...

Brief Analysis Three Lebanese experts explore Beirut’s precarious politics, Hezbollah’s continued ability to evade accountability, and the Biden administration’s options. On March 3, The Washington Institute held a virtual Policy Forum with Makram Rabah, Ali al-Amin, and Alia Mansour. Rabah is a lecturer of history with the American University of Beirut and author of the book Conflict on Mount Lebanon: The Druze, the Maronites and Collective Memory . Amin is a columnist and editor-in-chie...

© Jim Stephenson The new, sustainable building has been carefully crafted to sit in concert with the neighbouring buildings and succeeds in turning what was once a featureless car park into an animated civic square. Horris Hill is a day and boarding preparatory school for boys aged between 4 and 13, set within a rural campus in Berkshire. It is located on 85 acres containing woods, sports pitches, and a kitchen garden. Outdoor education and extracurricular activity are fundamental parts of the...

Maine groups partner to highlight New England’s Black heritage through series of virtual events Share In January and February 2021, Atlantic Black Box and the Indigo Arts Alliance will convene two public conversations related to memory, art, place, and race supported by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council. This pair of events will feature panelists from around New England who have developed site-specific projects aimed at making Black history and heritage visible in the built environmen...

Palestinians pray over the bodies of eight members of the Al Haj family, who were killed in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza’s Khan Younis refugee camp, July 10, 2014. Israel said it was targeting Hamas militants. Photo by Eyad Al Baba, APA Images. In his voluminous book “Rise and Kill First” (2019), Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman opens with the blunt statement that ‘…since World War II, Israel has assassinated more people than any other country in the Western world.’ This...

The rivalry that completely transformed the Middle East In "Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the rivalry that unraveled the Middle East", Dutch Lebanese journalist Kim Ghattas describes the past 40 years in the Middle East and North Africa as a struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Throughout the book, she focuses above all on the societal dimension of this rivalry. Daniel Walter read the book Peshawar in the early 1980s. After the Soviet invasion of neighbouring Afghanistan, t...