Yara Rodrigues Fowler on material as a part of reading, the making of zines, and writing there are more things.
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How to Quarantine a Revolution
Lebanese writer and actress Dima Mikhayel Matta writes on quarantine, revolution, and being queer in Beirut.
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Being both – a very personal revolution
In February, my Irish passport finally arrived. I opened it, read my name and beneath it, my nationality, or rather náisiúntacht. I was an Irish citizen now. I sat down on the stairs and cried.
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A new life
I became a mother when I was eighteen years old, and now I am twenty-one. I still feel like a child, one trapped in a strange and contradictory existence. I who can barely take care of myself – how could I have given birth to another life?
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Blood on its hands: a conversation with Robert Menasse
I don’t want anyone to think that I’m an artist one day and an activist the next. When I get politically involved, I do so as an artist. That is important to me.
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No time for arrogance: a conversation with Ece Temelkuran
It has become the motto of our age to say, ‘Oh I hate politics’ – without realising that that is the most political statement you can come up with.
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Editorial: revolution
As the UK makes its way through the interminable Brexit process, it’s time for an issue on the radical political and personal changes that we see going on around us, and within us.
Read MoreTranslation, Revolution, and Pedagogy
Following her appearance at the Literary Translation Centre for London Book Fair 2013, Samia Mehrez writes about working collaboratively on the book Translating Egypt’s Revolution: The Language of Tahrir, which uses multiple perspectives to translate the linguistic and cultural meanings of the momentous events in her country
Read MorePast Events Disperse like Smoke
Gregor Benton looks at revolution, resistance and the Beijing University literature class that harboured three of China’s best-known intellectual and political adversaries
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