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It is premature to suggest that the Academy has finally decided to break away from its ethnocentric past and genuinely embrace the incredible literature constantly originating from the Global South.
The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is historically known for lacking in diversity, as if int...
NZ researcher elected to prestigious academy Professor Linda Tuhiwai Te Rina Smith. Supplied photo. '); } else { // } A well-known indigenous studies Maori researcher and academic from the University of Waikato, has been elected as an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It is a rare honour, and believed to be the first time a Māori academic has been elected to join the Academy. Professor Linda Tuhiwai Te Rina Smith (Ngati Awa, Ngati Porou, Tuhourangi), author of seminal indigenous studies text Decolonizing Methodologies: Re...
Jenin Jenin by Ramzy Baroud / January 19th, 2021 On January 11, the Israeli Lod District Court ruled against a Palestinian film-maker, Mahmoud Bakri, ordering him to pay hefty compensation to an Israeli soldier who was accused, along with the Israeli military, of carrying out war crimes in April 2002, in the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp located in the northern occupied West Bank. The case, as presented by Israeli and other media, seemed to deal with typical legal matters such as defamation of character and so on. To those familiar with the massive clash of narratives which emanated from tha...