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Prophecy: The Human Cost of War
June 11, 2010We spoke this week about the actual cost of war as well as the toll it takes on those who participate in it. Now a new play at the East Fourth Street Theater in New York is focusing on the human toll that war takes, not just on those who fight it, but those back at home. Starring Kathleen Chalfant and Najla Said, Prophecy is written and directed by Karen Malpede, and explores the themes of transgression and forgiveness.Mariam Said: A World I Loved, The Story of an Arab Woman
July 7, 2009An interview with Mariam Said, whose mother, Wadad Makdisi Cortas’s memoir has just been published by Nation books. A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman, is a meditation on Arab identity in the twentieth century and of Cortas’s life in Lebanon as a woman, educator, and activist.Is the Occupation Over?, Mariam Said's Story of a Lost World, and The Battle for Power in Honduras
July 6, 2009The US media have reported on the withdrawal of American troops from Iraqi cities. But what's the real story? Journalists Patrick Cockburn and Jeremy Scahill and Kristele Younes of Refugees International on what the withdrawal means. Mariam Said discusses her mother's memoir and life in Beirut, A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman. And The Real News Network on the coup in Honduras.Our Inaugural
February 10, 2009On the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration, GRITtv broadcast live from Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC. The progressive movement for the last eight years has had to fight from the very edge of mainstream politics. Now that Barack Obama, a man who, John Nichols reminds us, has read Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, and dined with Edward Said is in the White House the balance of power has shifted.
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