Arab Spring

[bi_janus]

Some mornings I must set aside time to cry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/opinion/sunday/a-boy-to-be-sacrificed.html?_r=1&hp

[dude]

Thanks so much for posting this.

[bi_janus]

This remarkable young writer is so much more than a victim. I've attached a link to a podcast of a talk he gave at Columbia U in October 2010. His L'Armée du salut has been translated from the French and is available in America.

http://maisonfrancaise.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=225:abdellah-taia-moroccan-literature-in-french-october-22-2009&catid=10:video-and-audio-recordings&Itemid=52

[DesDownunder]

Outstanding. My thanks also for posting this. Sensitivity such as this is usually not permitted to survive.

[Bruin Fisher]

He's a remarkable young man. I hope that his work and the work of others can make things better for gay people in the middle East.

[Merkin]

An astonishingly heroic, deeply moving revelation.