Monthly Archives: October 2011

COLONEL MUAMMAR GADDAFI: Sodomy and murder as spectacle

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By rahnuma ahmed On hearing news of the Libyan leader colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s death, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton gleefully proclaimed — while paraphrasing the words of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar, Vini, vidi, vici, `I … Continue reading

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PopTech 2011 Interview:

Subscribe to ShahidulNews PopTech 2011 Interview: Shahidul Alam on photography for change Lindsay Borthwick ( BIO /   POSTS )  |  Friday, October 21, 2011 UTC  Shahidul Alam walked on stage on Thursday wearing a marigold-colored salwar kameez, a camera over his left shoulder, … Continue reading

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Be-heading `parched souls’ in modern Saudi Arabia

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By rahnuma ahmed Ma, my soul feels parched. It quivers like a kite. (`ma, amar attay pani nai, atta ghuddir moto khali orey’) — Masud Hossain of Purbashinda village, Tangail, one among eight be-headed in Saudia Arabia … Continue reading

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The light we failed to see

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Rashid Talukder 1939 – 2011 ‘Daktaaar’. The loud call would be promptly followed by a big grin and a bigger bear hug. He insisted on calling me by that title and always referred to it, when addressing … Continue reading

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Letter of solidarity to Occupy Wall Street, from Tahrir

Subscribe to ShahidulNews To all those in the United States currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity. Having received so much advice from you about transitioning to democracy, we thought it’s … Continue reading

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Britain puts out an unwelcome mat

Subscribe to ShahidulNews For Artists and Performers, Britain Puts Out an Unwelcome Mat (New York Times) From left: John Ewing, Korine Fujiwara, Charles Wetherbee and Kristin Ostling of the Carpe Diem Quartet. Photo: Karina Wetherbee By SARAH LYALL Published: October … Continue reading

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Dead men tell no tales

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Vijay Prashad 21 October 2011 — The Greanville Post – Qaddafi, From Beginning to End NATO’s Agenda for Libya On the dusty reaches out of Sirte, a convoy flees a battlefield. A NATO aircraft fires and strikes the … Continue reading

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Pop Tech

Subscribe to ShahidulNews PopTech 2011 Speakers & Performers We live in an era in which humanity’s capabilities—and our challenges—are progressing faster than most of us can comprehend. As we confront the major issues of our century, we’ve never had better … Continue reading

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From the Lions Point Of View

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Peter Marshall From the blog >Re Photo “Isn’t it a thrill to have him here in London” said the woman behind me to a friend as we we all waited, hardly an empty seat in the … Continue reading

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