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I spent memorable hours yarning with Father Bob and I accompanied the Father Bob McGuire Foundation food van on some of its nightly forays to parts of the city to provide sustenance to those in need. Invariably Father Bob would turn up at some point in the evening to lend his inimitable presence to the show. By Arnold Zable

As Holocaust denial and falsehoods spread on social media, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, a heroic act of resistance against oppression, with a sense of urgency. By Arnold Zable

Jack Charles triumphed over institutional racism, the legacy of colonialism, and the immense suffering, fragmentation, and trauma it left in its wake to become a brilliant storyteller, actor, artist, potter, musician and tireless worker for Aboriginal justice and rights. By Arnold Zable

Election day. Mid-afternoon. 21 May 2022. I make my way to Canning Street, Carlton North. Stop by my childhood home, a single-fronted terrace, the neighbourhood of my youth. In the 1950s election day was a happy day in that rented house, conveniently close to the factories of Brunswick, and the Victoria Market where my father was a stallholder.  My parents loved the three-block walk to the polling booths, located in Lee Street, our local primary school. They were elated at having the right to v...

Aamir Khan is celebrating his 57th birthday today. The actor revealed that his daughter Ira Khan and sons Junaid Khan and Azad Rao Khan were the first ones to wish him today. The Dangal actor celebrated his birthday with the mediapersons...

(MENAFN - Emirates News Agency (WAM)) ABU DHABI, 14th February, 2021 (WAM) -- The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) at the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, held the first event of its 2021 cultural programme, a collaboration with New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) titled ‘Stories We Continue to Tell: The Many Returns of One Thousand and One Nights. Hosted by the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), the virtual seminar focussed on why this collection of Middle East...