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To a Journalist in Prison
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Hope
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Lonely Nowruz
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Israel’s retaliation against Iran would cause ‘major war’ | Jonathan Panikoff
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How stolen socks and a ladies’ handbag led to a British Diplomat's kidnap in Iran | BBC Newsnight
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“I’m Jewish, and I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”: Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza
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from Ali Sadr:
Ba salaam va arz e eradat. Hope all is well. Thank you for your beautiful poem. In the upcoming issue of our Peyk magazine, we have four poems by you "Chashmhayam" Thank you.
from Beau:
The poem you sent today, The George Habash Sandwich, is a fine example of you working with politics, history, and memory within an everyday situation. I admire much how you find things within other things. You are a really good poet! In Solidarity.
from Mike Simms the editor of Vox Populi:
Good poem, Majid. I’ve posted it to appear later.
from Nora:
Exquisite and well crafted! Life in a poem! Thanks Majid Jaan!
from Mehdi:
In this poem, in the surface, we read the story of an encounter in a sandwich shop, but deep inside, we face the philosophical issue of past and present in social struggle and the weight of our dead comrades on our shoulders. Hence the cannibalism and the image of a casket-sandwich. The following passage from “18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte” written by Karl Marx in 1852 may help to see this deep layer of the poem: “The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped away all superstition about the past. The former revolutions required recollections of past world history in order to smother their own content. The revolution of the nineteenth century must let the dead bury their dead in order to arrive at its own content. There the phrase went beyond the content – here the content goes beyond the phrase.
from Shayda:
It is beautiful, powerful and tasty.