Category: World Affairs
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They are coming…by G. Mramor
The tranquil flow of the village is no more.
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Cosmic Samba: Styles of Life Unified by M. Pitter
The people of this world– living in different societies abroad, societies built on continents each continent shaped its own way, near seas and containing rivers filled with trees and bush indigenous only to that very place — seem foreign to each other. Coming into contact with foreign peoples could be an experience that renders any…
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Samma…by G. Mramor
‘You can’t do this Peter.’ ‘Hand me that will you.’ He points to the white robe. ‘Peter, look at me.’ He grabs his friend. He looks at him. ‘I’m ready Matt.’ ‘I don’t believe you man. What about Emma? What about your mom?’ His friend smiles. He lets go. ‘I’m ready Matt.’ He passes him…
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Social Science by M. Pitter
Social Science as we know it today (in our corner of the world) consists of a collection of observation-based theories that give ‘reason’ and organization to the ways in which human beings interact with other human beings in the stratified ‘cosm that we call ‘society’. Suppose we apply the ‘hard’ sciences to our daily lives,…
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WIN: A copy of IP Issue 3 (JAN 2013)
I’d like to invite all of you to join the Winter 2013 IP Giveaway where we will be giving out a FREE COPY of the latest issue of In Parentheses to TWO (2) lucky winners! You can get multiple chances to win by ‘Liking’ us on Facebook, and ‘Following’ us on Twitter! The form is available…
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Meet Sa’ide by M. Pitter
Meet Sa’ide (Sigh-Yee-Duh). She lives here in Hebron with her family: her aunts and uncles and grandparents. She arrived here three days ago after sneaking out of Gaza and onto the canvas covered flat bed of a pick-up truck due east for Jerusalem. Through the elaborate networks of Israeli Defense Force checkpoints and the sharp…
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Points of Paradisimo by M. Pitter
Various parts of our planet have been popularly dubbed beautiful, considered to be paradise, Shangri-La, the vestibules of nirvana. Narrowing our scope to the radiant oceanic scenes, we see that these places can often take mastery over a person’s pleasure principle or, at least, pull a person into a trance; and she sinks into a…
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New Jerusalem Rising – poem submission by E Sade
Eboni Sade’ is a Jersey City, NJ native with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Howard University. She has been published in This Old House Magazine, St. Maarten’s Guide to Writing Handbook, The Amistad Journal, ImageOutWrite and Blackberry: a magazine. She is also the author of Skin to Skin. New Jerusalem Rising Mercury…
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Alleen Maar Nette Mensen: The Netherlands and the continued dehumanization of black people – a Film Review by Q. Gario
Quinsy Gario is a film and television scholar, focusing on gender, race and culture. He’s also a poet, award winning theater-maker and the performance artist behind the Zwarte Piet Is Racism art project for which he was arrested in November 2011. You can find more of his work on www.nonemployees.com or look him up on…
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The Black Lips Bring Rock and Roll to Mesopotamia by J. Levkowitz
On Saturday, September 29th, the Black Lips walked onto the stage of a small college in Erbil, Iraq. This show was a detour from their greater Middle East tour in Cairo, Amman, Dubai, and Lebanon. Had the band members not already purchased tickets to northern Iraq during the summer, the show might not have happened…
