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  • 1 week ago | thenation.com | Kaveh Akbar

    Activism / June 18, 2025 At Least We Are Many: Resisting the Drums of WarIsrael’s assaults on Iran are attacks from an actively genocidal nuclear state on an already-oppressed people. We must oppose US involvement and calls for craven acquiescence. Edit Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in The Hague to protest Israel’s war on Palestinians. (Kaveh Akbar) The Hague—On June 15, I marched with 150,000 other people in The Hague against Israel’s war in Gaza.

  • 1 week ago | poets.org | Kaveh Akbar |Diane Seuss |Wayne Miller |Max Ritvo

    Find and share the perfect poems. There is a tumor in my sacroiliac joint  and snowflakes in my coffee. I’m in Iowa with the cats and you’re in Pompeii. You send a video: lizards rushing into limestone which remind you of being a kid in Florida. In Florida we memorized sonnets while leaping around green anoles. I’ve forgotten the poems. Your black tights, even in that heat. Mostly that’s what I remember. It’s okay to say it straight.

  • 1 month ago | criterion.com | Kaveh Akbar

    Essays— May 13, 2025 Some filmmakers might stage an opus about good and evil with radiant angels and blaring trumpets. But in The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), a masterpiece of lived-in ethical complexity and high spiritual stakes, Abbas Kiarostami deploys no fireworks, special effects, or CGI. There’s barely even electricity. The great Iranian auteur sets the film in a deeply rural location that has been largely untouched by twentieth-century modernity.

  • 2 months ago | elpais.com | Kaveh Akbar |Adam Gray

    Esta noche he abierto Instagram en mi iPhone y lo primero que he visto ha sido un vídeo de Rumeysa Ozturk, una alumna turca de doctorado de la Universidad de Tufts (Massachusetts), detenida por el ICE, el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos.

  • Mar 28, 2025 | thenation.com | Kaveh Akbar |Laura Jedeed |Sasha Abramsky |Tanvi Misra

    Activism / March 28, 2025 What Will You Do? What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list? Ad Policy Rumeysa Ozturk being arrested byICE.(CBS News)Tonight I opened Instagram on my iPhone and the very first thing it showed me was a video of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, being arrested by ICE.

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