My father, Roger Boase, who has died aged 77, was a scholar of Spanish 15th- century cancionero poetry and history.
Roger’s magnum opus, published in 2017, was Secrets of Pinar’s Game, analysing across two volumes a single Iberian poem from 1496 and all the literary, historical, botanical and heraldic references therein.
Continue reading...Shymaa, her husband Muhammad and baby Abd al-Rahman were killed in an airstrike.
Mass graves uncovered at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, accelerated Israeli settler and army violence in West Bank.
Muslim organisations say they were not consulted before counter-terrorism raids that resulted in arrests relating to a church stabbing in Sydney
Representatives of the Australian Muslim community have called out what they called “questionable law enforcement tactics” after seven minors were arrested and six of them charged with counter-terrorism-related offences this week.
Three major bodies, the Australian National Imams Council, the Alliance of Australian Muslims and the Australian Muslim Advocacy Network, have also demanded the government revise Australia’scounter-terrorism laws, saying they “target specific communities”.
Continue reading...Ryan Grim’s The Squad lays bare the Israel lobby’s outsized influence on US politics.
News report (01:18); Abubaker Abed live from Deir al-Balah, Gaza (19:46); Professor Mohamed Abdou on Columbia University and expanding protests across US campuses (45:28); Jon Elmer shows latest videos from the resistance in Gaza and the West Bank as well as a series of operations from southern Lebanon by Hizballah (01:27:06); and a group discussion (02:11:25).
AI project approved before Israel’s war against Gaza.
Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls
Harrowing first-hand accounts of women being dragged from the streets of Iran and detained by security services have emerged as human rights groups say country’s hijab rules have been brutally enforced since the country’s drone strikes on Israel on 13 April.
A new campaign, called Noor (“light” in Persian), was announced the same day the Iranian regime launched drone attacks against Israel, to crack down on “violations” of the country’s draconian hijab rules, which dictate that all women must cover their heads in public.
Continue reading...We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.
This week, from 2020: For seven decades, India has been held together by its constitution, which promises equality to all. But Narendra Modi’s BJP is remaking the nation into one where some people count as more Indian than others. By Samanth Subramanian
Continue reading...Israel rampages through Nur Shams refugee camp.
