Amour

Amour (Love) a new film by Michael Haneke about the meaning of love and death with Jean-Louis Trintignant , Emmanuelle Riva. It's great to see Riva after her masterpiece Hiroshima Mon Amour...This film has won Goldene Palme award at Cannes Film Festival 2012.

Mother to Son

Thank you Belle of Writes
Mother to Son
By  Langston Hughes

Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor --
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turning corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
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And...Read: Poetry is Rebellion... 

Perhaps the duties of the poet have been the same throughout history...poetry is rebellion...we poets hate hatred and make war on war.

Pablo Neruda

The Jewish Wife

The Jewish Wife a short play from Fear and Misery of the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht part 1 and Part 2
A video on Brecht...
Another  video on Brecht...

An Interview

The Wrighter's blog featured Kaveh Adel, the artist and political cartoonist. Above is Adel's reinterpretation of "The Scream" by Edvard Munch

Kiss your loved ones!

Kiss your loved ones!
Dr. Kaveh N. Adel from Naperville Family Dental care talks about Soda Pop and Soft Drink facts..... how much is consumed and the effects on teeth and gums.

Merci, Monsieur Badiou

A Frantz Fanonian perspective:
 
Merci, Monsieur Badiou 
By  Hamid Dabashi

"The malady that Alain Badiou has diagnosed is not limited to the French, or even to Europeans. It is crucial to keep in mind that there are those among the expatriate Iranian, Arab or South Asian intellectuals in Europe who are identical in their Islamophobic racism against Muslims. A significant segment of these expat intellectuals, clumsily wearing white masks over their brown skin, are integral and definitive to secular fundamentalists' disdain for Islam and Muslims.

The current Islamophobia in Europe is a disease - a slightly updated gestation of old-fashioned European anti-Semitism. The disease is widely spread in North America too. In the US, the selfsame disease is now evident in the fact that US military officers have for years been indoctrinated by a viciously anti-Muslim pedagogy that teaches US military personnel that Muslims "hate everything you stand for and will never coexist with you, unless you submit"."
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Writing at SNL

Introducing my work at Writing at SNL (School for New Learning- DePaul University)