Tag: Barbara Nimri Aziz
Where Should Palestinians Search for Justice? By B Nimri Aziz
A London hospital removes Palestinian children’s art because it upset some patients. Meanwhile, seemingly unassociated, far away in The West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians men, women and children are being ‘removed’ from their homes through a daily sustained process of genocidal cleansing. So abundant are the grievances of Palestinians, so relentless the attacks on their ...
Syria Held Hostage by U.S.A. and its Allies. By BNimri Aziz 02/12/23
Perhaps the most agonizing experience for a family, for any bystander, even for humanitarian professionals, is a double tragedy—a death or calamity where they are refused access, where they are forced to helplessly witness suffering, unable to offer succor. This is surely what faces millions of able-bodied Syrians today. It affects Syrians within the stricken ...
Menacing Winter Wonder–from my window
Menacing Winter Wonder. February 6, 2023 by BNimri Aziz Those images from the December blizzard engulfing Buffalo in upstate New York were shocking. Hard to grasp the reality. That ghostliness was not only from the icy, white shroud covering everything. There were also the deaths of citizens who ventured outside, or who simply couldn’t get ...
What Was That Biden Said About Ending the War? By B Nimri Aziz, Jan 30, 2023
Commentators are busy speculating how the American president’s promise – endorsed by the country as enthusiastically as Zelensky himself– of M1 Abram tanks to Ukraine will affect the war that grinds on in Ukraine. Many assume that gifts of fighter jets will follow shortly. What disturbs me is the semantics of Biden’s announcement of the ...
Treachery to Some; Opportunism to Others—Horse-trading in the U.S. Congress. by B Nimri Aziz 01.15.23
Jacobin author Neal Meyer has pointed out what I too was thinking. The Left, indeed all of today’s Democrats, would do well to view as a lesson in politics, the successful far-right GOP strategy to bend House-Speaker-in-waiting McCarthy to their will. Liberal commentators watching the horse-trading on the House floor earlier this month, suggested their ...
Will BritRoyal Problems Persist through 2023 and Beyond?
Do Meghan and Harry Really Believe They Control the Narrative? by BNAziz Jan 6/2023 My sister in Canada once had an ardent although not excessive interest in British royalty. She's followed successive generations of The Windsors from the 1940s into the 21st Century. Now, she says, that’s over. First she refused to indulge the latest ...
Liberty for Julian Assange–Join Me in My 2023 New Year Resolution
from BNimri Aziz-- New Year wishes to my friends-- my new book is in press, so I can resume short commentaries, starting with my personal invitation for you to join Julian Assange's supporters. More work is needed. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s vindication seems-- maybe, perhaps, imaginably—achievable. It’s enough for me to publish my singular New ...
Nepal: it’s place in a future US-China crisis ?
The formidable peaks stretching across the north of Nepal (or Tibet in the south of China depending on your perspective) have up to now provided sufficient deterrence to military confrontation. With new technology that can easily surpass geographic barriers and with the growing threat of China beyond India to include the USA, the Himalayas hold ...
One of Syria’s Nameless, Unaccounted for …
There Was A Young Man from Dara'a (Syria, 2011-.... ?) by BN Aziz 02/04/22 Dara’a, Syria was the hometown of Khalid. In the years leading up to 2011, he lived between there and Damascus. He was in his 3rd year studying sociology at Damascus University. He shared a sparely furnished apartment in a working-class neighborhood ...
Poet and Artist Etel Adnan: The Guggenheim Literary Celebration Is Flawed
Esteemed Poet and Artist Etel Adnan Might Well Inquire about Her Missing Arab Companions, as Her Outstanding New York Exhibition Draws to a Close. Jan 8/2022 by B Nimri Aziz There are perhaps five million Arabs who identify as Americans, our earliest ancestors having arrived here almost two centuries ago. Many more Arab immigrants reside ...
New Arab film reviews by Barbara
https://barbaranimri.com/2021/09/tunisian-films-new-and-noteworthy/ Noteworthy, New Tunisian Films. Sept 2/21 by BNimri Aziz “A Son” and “She Had a Dream”, both from Tunisia, are among new productions distributed in the U.S. this fall through Art Mattan’s African Diaspora International Film Festivals. The compelling plot of “A Son” opens with the Ben Youssef family picnicking among friends in the ...
“The next road is always ahead” Oprah Winfrey by B. Nimri Aziz
Stumbling onto clips of “Back Love’ produced by Oprah’s OWN network, then recalling those pre-2020 election town halls Oprah hosted, I have to say what her work reveals about our so-called-progressive media: it’s damn elitist!
BNAziz remembers Nawal El-Saadawi (1931-2021) R.I.P
https://barbaranimri.com/2021/03/nawal-el-saadawi-1931-2021-radical-feminist-writer-critic/ I often quote one highly memorable statement by Nawal El-Saadawi-- a bold and brilliant retort to a question put to her by an NPR radio host many years ago. A lesson for me, but for others too. I was accompanying the Egyptian writer to the Manhattan studio of the national radio network, and sat ...
It’s Only a Lawn Sign; Well, Perhaps Far More. by B. Nimri Aziz November 2/2020
RIP Robert Fisk-- an extraordinary, exemplary journalist; he demonstrated the power of really good writing It’s Only a Lawn Sign; Well, Perhaps Far More. by B. Nimri Aziz November 2/2020 With quarrels raging over disappearing campaign lawn signs, rattled American liberals may now appreciate how being ‘a minority’ feels. Desecration and theft of lawn signs ...
What Can Americans Learn from New York’s Shrewd Governor, Andrew Cuomo? By B. Nimri Aziz, 10/28, 2020
Day 240 of the Covid-19 pandemic in the US; anxious New Yorkers are again invited to hear about changing conditions in their state and what the governor’s doing to protect them. Monday’s press briefing must be his 150th review of the stubborn unsettling disease.
Mocking Birds in This 2020 Spring by B. Nimri Aziz May 20/2020
Our seas and rivers look cleaner; our air feels fresher, quieter; our streets and roadways are abandoned. Panic shopping for household supplies has passed, only to be replaced by lines of mothers and fathers at food banks while UberEats and Grubhub hand-deliver to others at any cost. In U.S. detention camps, miserable crowds are shamelessly ...
Have Nepal’s People Managed a Healthy Breakthrough in the Covid-19 Crisis? By B. Nimri Aziz 04/25/2020
“We’re all going to die!” This feeble appeal came in a Facebook phone call with B. Thapa from deep within Nepal’s eastern hills. Our conversation was in early March when news headlines from Italy and the U.S. began to alarm Nepalis. With no information about the spread of the disease in his country, this schoolteacher ...
Reconsider High-Risk Granpas and Sanctions-SurvivingImmigrants as Untapped Resources by BNAziz April 02, 2020
We have a natural impulse to extend protection to the very young and to the old first; we offer sympathy and succor to traumatized refugees too. That’s reasonable. Our seniors and our children require attention as the most vulnerable; immigrants need support in unfamiliar surroundings. Professors speaking about historical precedents for the COVID-19 emergency invoke ...
Kaia Rolle: handcuffed and Arrested in America by Barbara Nimri Aziz
Kaia Rolle, Handcuffed and Arrested at 6—How Many More, and for How Long is This America? I want to never forget this child, or the thousands of US law enforcement officers like those in this episode who daily commit crimes similar to that against Kaia. B. Nimri Aziz While fretting over refugee children in freezing ...
Being a Democrat—Ugh by B. Nimri Aziz
It’s a rough time to be a Democrat. Notwithstanding the impotent Senate Minority. Not those ill-fated bills championed as victories by House Democrats only to be spurned by the upper chamber; not smug, elitist party fundraisers; not funding strategists and millionaire celebrity donors; not even bumbling Iowa Democratic party officials. I mean this forlorn orphaned ...
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