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PEN’s current newsletter has two interesting pieces cocnerning recent problems that have befallen Arab wrters, on here (the refusal of a visa for Tariq Ramadan) and one in Algeria (re the jailed journalist Mohammed...

You would have turned eighty today!

signandsight has yet again done an excellent job in gathering and summing up the various reports on the recently awarded Ingeborg Bachmann prize. Below there summary in English with a range of links to...

Originally published in the German paper Der Standard, here are the opening paragraphs of French nouveau philosophe Andre Glucksmann’s essay Englished for us by the good people at signandsight. You can read the whole...

El Kasri (L) accompanied by a Gnaoua group from Essaouira Wish I was there! This from the Maghrebia site: Essaouira to host 9th Gnaoua World Music Festival The increasingly popular Gnaoua World Music Festival...

Jerome Rothenberg posted the following announcement on the Buffalo Poetics list — & I think it is worthwhile repeating here on Nomadics: As a kind of followup to the Dada show in New York,...

Via signandsight’s weekly roundup of the weeklies, here are a few worthwhile reads: In his “Notebook” column in Le point, 16.06.2006 (France), Bernard-Henri Levy recalls his visit to Guantanamo last year and demands –...

Well, the Dada occasion was a lot of fun. Bob Holman is Mr. Natural Dadaman in a question/able jacket and Latasha Diggs made me wonder what the dadaists would have produced had they had...

Off to NYC early this morning for the Dada Reading & Show at MOMA tonight. For those in the area and interested, here are the details again: Thought is Made in the Mouth: Dada...

A few interesting pieces in recent on-line zines & newspapers on the wikipedia phenomenon. Most fascinating (and, ultimately, irritating) piece is Jaron Lanier’s essay on Edge, with its claims that wikipedia is something like...