Robert Azzi

1 week ago | robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi

Good morning Family, Friends, and ColleaguesSome days it’s a good idea to stand aside, to embrace the words and passions of others as you will read below this is one of those days. Stay well, stand in solidarity, draw your keffiyehs close, and love each other. Salamaat,RobertRobert Azzi / The Other is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

2 weeks ago | robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi

Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues,I got up early this morning and tried to watch the Pope’s funeral … I really tried … but the commentators weren’t saying much that I didn’t already know … and not much about what I cared about…My own thoughts follow below the photograph…RobertPope Francis was buried today.

3 weeks ago | robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi

Family, Friends, Colleagues, and Fellow Resisters,I have seen No Other Land, an extraordinarily courageous and provocative Academy Award-winning movie chosen just weeks ago as Best Documentary Feature at the 97th Academy Awards. It had a short run in Epping NH and I took an afternoon off to watch it. In spite of its compelling narrative, international and domestic awards, and critical acclaim - and Oscars - it has yet to acquire a national distributor, so one has to make an effort to see it.

1 month ago | robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi

Good Morning Family, Friends, Colleagues, It's Palm Sunday. The most beautiful Christian service I ever witnessed was, years ago, in Cambridge, MA within the walls of The Society of Saint John the Evangelist, a small Episcopal monastery astride the banks of the Charles River. It was there I was welcomed into the service of Tenebrae, a Service of Shadows, which happens once a year during the final part of Christian Holy Week.

1 month ago | robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi

Family, Friends, and Colleagues,Eid Mubarak!I wish everyone who is able to celebrate this blessed holiday of Eid al-Fitr a Happy Eid Mubarak! As we together celebrate this blessed time let us not forget or neglect those for whom no such celebration is possible, such as those enduring genocide, ethnic cleansing, and forced starvation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in all other places of oppression and dispossession - including here in the United States.