Category: Top Stories of Year 2021
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Part 1: Introduction to Poetic Traditions of Compassion and Creative Maladjustment
Consider that members of various “demographic groups” in different nations have begun to assert claims to political power at the same time that unavoidable historical population shifts are already in progress. Nearly everyone recognizes the need for greater social harmony as these shifts progress, yet many insist on touting reactionary…
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Reading Rumi after 9/11 and again at the end of the War in Afghanistan (part 1)
Can Poetry and the Taliban Coexist? Aside from being a country plagued by a succession of wars and economic woes, Afghanistan is also the birthplace of one of the great figures of world literature: Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Rumi. ..
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