SILVIA PIO (edited by) From The Emperor’s way to Constantinople (August 1990) The last Byzantine emperor was crowned at Mystras in Greece. He then travelled south by land to the great port of Monemvássia. From there he embarked for the…
JOKHA AL HARTHI Nassir al-Abd does not understand anymore; he used to conceptualize life as something stable. He used to touch the stability of life, but he knew, in a mysterious way, that it is not as stable as it…
ROBERTA FERRARIS The Occitan variant spoken in the Èllero valley indicates as «Quié (Kyé)» the 1st singular person subjective pronoun «I». Only in 1969, the linguist Corrado Grassi included this dialect spoken in some villages of the Monregalese valleys in…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) DISCOMFORTS Of course I feel miserable, now and then. Sick as a dog. Of course, now and then, everything hurts, or even worse- it is one or the other. Of course I should take some of…
NAZ OKE The Syrian sculptor Nizar Ali Badr is a discrete man. Words aren’t what make him tick. Stones make him tick. I know nothing about him, where exactly he comes from, nor where he is at the moment. I…
SILVIA PIO (edited by) Worldwide Reading in support of Ashraf Fayadh, organized by Literaturfestival Berlin it was said: settle there. but some of you are enemies for all so leave it now look up to yourselves from the bottom of…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE Tomorrow is Martedi Grasso (Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday), and the last day of Carnevale. Here in Mondovi` we have been celebrating since 24 January with processions, presentations, ceremonies and formal dinners, dancing and general revelry most every night…
