Given the imminent recognition of Palestine as a state by more and more Western powers, this really rings true. We should ensure that is followed up and not end up as empty words.
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Michel L. rated Hostage Tower: 3 stars
Hostage Tower by John Denis, Alistair MacLean
Introducing UNACO – the United Nations Anti Crime Organisation – an elite team of agents who battle the world’s deadliest …
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Hostage Tower by John Denis, Alistair MacLean
Introducing UNACO – the United Nations Anti Crime Organisation – an elite team of agents who battle the world’s deadliest …
Michel L. rated Cosmopolites: 4 stars
Cosmopolites by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
The buying and selling of citizenship has become a legitimate, thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs are renouncing …
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Cosmopolites by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
The buying and selling of citizenship has become a legitimate, thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs are renouncing …
Michel L. started reading Hitler's American Model by James Q. Whitman
Hitler's American Model by James Q. Whitman
How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany. Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim …
Michel L. started reading Hostage Tower by John Denis
Hostage Tower by John Denis, Alistair MacLean
Introducing UNACO – the United Nations Anti Crime Organisation – an elite team of agents who battle the world’s deadliest …
Michel L. rated Recognizing the Stranger: 5 stars
Recognizing the Stranger by Isabella Hammad
Nine days before October 7, 2023, award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. …
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Recognizing the Stranger by Isabella Hammad
Nine days before October 7, 2023, award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. …
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Nine days before October 7, 2023, award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said …
In the language of both law and literaryform, then, recognition is a kind of knowing that should incur the responsibility to act for it to have any value beyond personal epiphanies, or appeasing the critics of the one doing the recognizing. Great effort is required to ensure that such a moment marks the middle of the story, and not the finale. Another act must follow.
— Recognizing the Stranger by Isabella Hammad (Page 50)
Michel L. started reading Cosmopolites by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Cosmopolites by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
The buying and selling of citizenship has become a legitimate, thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs are renouncing …
Michel L. started reading Recognizing the Stranger by Isabella Hammad
Recognizing the Stranger by Isabella Hammad
Nine days before October 7, 2023, award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. …
Michel L. started reading How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine
How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses …
Brotopia
For women in tech, Silicon Valley is a 'Brotopia' where men hold all the cards and make all the rules. …
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
Timequake is a 1997 semi-autobiographical work by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Marketed as a novel, the book was described as a …