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. A Palestinian woman carries her crying daughter after rainwater flooded their house that was damaged by Israeli shelling during the 50-day war in the summer of 2014, in Khan Younis in the southern...
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.Relatives of Uygar Coskun, who was killed in a twin blast in Ankara, mourn over his coffin during a funeral ceremony in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday. Mourners anxiously began to gather to commemorate the...
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.A Palestinian student from Hebron University sets himself on fire while throwing a Molotov cocktail towards Israeli soldiers and border police, Hebron: photo by Hazam Badera/AFP, 13 October...
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.Intimidation in Gaza. Israeli Defense Force soldiers interrogate a Palestinian youth in Gaza with a tear gas launcher. The Palestinians were being forced to open their shops, which were closed in...
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.Video footage showed the moment after an Israeli settler shot dead a Palestinian youth in Hebron: image via YouTube/ Al Jazeera, 17 October 2015Palestinians killed after alleged Hebron stabbings:...
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.Men play chess in front of a damaged building in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret al-Naaman town in Idlib province, Syria on Monday: photo by Khalil Ashawi/Reuters, 19 October 2015US wants to avoid...
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.Haftom Zarhum, a 29-year-old Eritrean migrant, was shot by a security guard and kicked by bystanders: photo by AP via Al jazeera, 20 October 2015Eritrean envoyto Israel calls for arrest of lynch mob:...
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.Pale light hangs in a pine forest during a rainy autumn morning: photo by Patrick Pleul/AFP, 15 October 2015In a timeless worldthe pale light beneath the pinesnever changesIn a timeless worldmoonlight...
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.Lorries cross a bridge shrouded in haze in Klang, Malaysia, on Wednesday. The thick so-called “haze,” caused by slash-and-burn clearances on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, has pushed air quality...
View ArticleHsieh T'iao: Viewing the Three Lakes
. island in Lake Vuoksa, on the Karelian Isthmus separating Russia and Finland: photo by Dmitry A. Mottl, 2009Red clouds mirrored where the waters meet.From the red terrace -- birds returning,the...
View ArticleGuarding the Endeared Homelandscape: Wallace Stevens: Late Hymn from the...
.THE RUNAWAY BLIMP NEAR MUNCY PA...: image by Carl McDaniel, 29 October 2014Unsnack your snood, madonna, for the starsAre shining on all brows of Neversink.Already the green bird of summer has...
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. Douma: image via Orient @OrientNews, 31 October 2015Joseph Ceravolo: Street Wise Romantic......................December 7, 1984The streets are empty and still, between the red time, then start...
View ArticleEzra Pound: Canto CXIII: preparation for sky burial
Vultures flock overhead as ethnic Tibetans gather for a sky burial near the Larung valley, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province. Relatives and onlookers gather for sky burials in which...
View ArticleAfter Sidney (cloud tsunami)
First #tornados in Melbourne, now cloud #tsunamis in Sydney. Australian weather: you are terrifying! #sydneystorm: image by Robbi Bishop-Taylor @robbibt, 6 November 2015the cold peach smudge sunsetno...
View ArticleIn a time of poisoned horses: Thomas Wyatt: If waker care, if sodayne pale...
.Horses struggle in the mud in the small town of Bento Rodrigues after an iron mine tailings dam burst in Minas Gerais state, in southeastern Brazil. Union officials representing workers at the mine...
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.The "Dry Arch" (bridge over the Shallogan River), Straboy, County Donegal: photo by Robert French, c. 1890s (The Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland)"It was a subject of regret...
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.Palestinian hospital security guard checks the room where Israeli special forces killed 27 year old Abdallah Shalaldeh and arrested his cousin at the Al-Ahli hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron....
View ArticleMario Vargas Llosa: The horror that is called Hebron / Hashem Azzeh: Holdout...
."Gas the Arabs" painted on the gate outside a Palestinian home in Hebron by Israeli settlers. It is signed "JDL" (Jewish Defence League): photo by Magne Hagesaeter, 29 June 2008Hebron is the image of...
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