The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday August 23rd, 2022
On the night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Saint Domingue, today the Republic of Haiti, saw the beginning of the uprising that would play a crucial role in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. This International Day is intended to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade in the memory of all peoples. In accordance with the goals of the intercultural project “The Routes of Enslaved Peoples”, it should offer an opportunity for collective consideration of the historic causes, the methods and the consequences of this tragedy, and for an analysis of the interactions to which it has given rise between Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean.
The Maybe Mob and the Rushdie Attack by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
He has survived death threats and attempts on his life since February 1989. But Salman Rushdie’s luck just about ran out at the Chautauqua Institution, southwest of Buffalo in New York State. On August 12, at a venue historically celebrated for bringing education to all, the writer was stabbed incessantly by a fanatic who felt little sense of guilt or remorse.Hadi Matar only had eyes for Rushdie’s neck and abdomen. As a result of the attack, the author islikely to lose sight of one eye and possibly the use of an arm.
It was a chilling reminder that the fatwa condemning him to death never risked going stale, even if it might have been put into a form of archived cold storage.Declared by the Iran’s sickly spiritual ruler, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Rushdie’s remarkable crime was to have blasphemed against the Prophet Muhammad in the novel The Satanic Verses. The supreme leader, having hardly distinguished himself in a bloody war against Iraq, needed a supreme distraction.
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Reclining moon #poem by Amir Khatib
“The sun brakes the lights,
shyly and seductively vomiting rays.
It regains its breath … it gasps for the fastest arrival, roses flirt here.
To give everything.
The trees defiantly give me the right to stay and I will stay.”
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Tang & Ram #043 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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