May 1, 2008

Reading: Nasrin Alavi - We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs

nasrin alavi - we are iran

March 21, 2008

Reading: Daniel Ladinski Trans. - The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, The Great Sufi Master

hafiz - the gift. trans. daniel ladinsky

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March 6, 2008

Reading: Afghanistan - Louis Dupree

afghanistan - louis dupree

February 25, 2008

Reading: Rosanne Klass - Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Going Was Good

rosanne klass - land of the high flags

January 27, 2008

more feeds and things … and blogrolls

A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs...

January 26, 2008

Reading: Charles Stross – The Atrocity Archives

charles stross - the atrocity archives

November 17, 2007

reading: terry pratchett…

terry pratchett - mort terry pratchett - the colour of magic terry pratchett - equal rites terry pratchett...

April 6, 2007

friday atheist re-blogging

Being the day when a carpenter who has fantastically scant evidence for ever having existed in the first place was...

April 1, 2007

sunday morning avoiding-work blogging

More stuff I've read in the past two weeks for your amazement and occasional pleasure, though because everyone's taste is...

December 12, 2006

iranian typography now

Japan design magazine PingMag has a long feature yesterday, Iranian Typography Now. It is one of the most sublime features...

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December 2, 2006

some stuff i read this week

Lazy Saturday afternoon post-dragging myself out of bed and thinking of going climbing pretty soon, but first a random trawl...

October 30, 2006

some new blogs

About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting "contemporary dance" Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I...

October 26, 2006

i shit on ya - sheik taj aldin

Someone recently said about a United States school kid who got hauled up by the FBI for sedition over a...

October 21, 2006

what i've been reading today

Another list of completely unrelated stuff that circulated through my news feeds in the last couple of days and makes...

October 3, 2006

we are no longer human

I really, really urge you all to read this article that appeared in Rolling Stone, The Unending Torture of Omar...

September 29, 2006

torture is evil unless we're doing it

It was a unique moment today, killing time between rehearsals and reading the latest issue of Dance Australia while dozing...

August 21, 2006

I know that I AM

Today was emotionally really shitty, the kind of day I want to finish by getting wasted, all teen-punk angst. Lucky...

April 17, 2006

supernaut is lazy (but can read...)

I'd probably be better using del.icio.us for all the stuff I read, but I found on top of keeping supernaut...

December 11, 2005

a quarter of a billion - an addendum

I had some doubts this morning about posting the previous entry. And more doubts since reading R.J. Rummell's blog more...

December 10, 2005

a quarter of a billion

I'm taking a bit of a break from blogging, the return to Australia has left me with a disembodied sense...

December 5, 2005

don't bomb us - al jazeera goes blog

Somehow, I think through one of the feeds I subscribe to, I stumbled upon what is one of the best...

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November 4, 2005

nusra in karachi

I know I keep on saying Nusra Latif Qureshi is one of the most amazing artists in the world, but...

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September 8, 2005

exotic bodies heavenly products

Two artists who always give me a thrill when the invite for their latest show lands in my inbox are...

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August 23, 2005

women's social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy

I have pretty much steered clear saying anything about the great neo-colonial escapade in Iraq, despite keeping up with the...

May 24, 2005

nusra latif qureshi - intentions of memory

Nusra Latif Qureshi, who has long been one of my favourite artists in Melbourne and has been storming out stuff...

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March 22, 2005

UAE Sharjah International Biennale 7

The UAE Sharjah International Biennale 7 opens in a couple of weeks in Sharjah Art Museum and the nearby Heritage...

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March 16, 2005

sabeen raja talk

Pakistani minature artist Sabeen Raja is in Melbourne to exhibit her works at Axes Art Space and Gertrude Street Contemporary...

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February 23, 2005

nusra +naeem's new gallery

i've written about Nsra and Naeem a couple of times in the past. I met them both when I was...

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September 24, 2004

baghdad year zero

I haven't written about the war in Iraq, or the radical conservative politics and coming elections either in America or...

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September 8, 2004

cairo's modern dance festival

Walid Aouni, the founder of Cairo Opera's Modern Dance Theatre has just finished the fifth Festival of Modern Dance, which...

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July 7, 2004

nusra + naeem again

In June, I wrote about Nusra and Naeem's art, and their exhibition, at Counihan Gallery, which opened a couple of...

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May 23, 2004

Chinese Mountaineering Team on K2

The climbing season on K2 has kicked off, with 54 expeditions attempting to summit the mountain made famous by prominent...

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May 5, 2004

Nothing happened in Palestine

Yesterday, Melbourne's The Age ran a front page story on a work by two artists in a Flinders St gallery...

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April 27, 2004

The 'new' Silk Route

A new treaty has been signed by 23 nations at a UN meeting to create multiple landlinks between Khabarovsk and...

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April 20, 2004

AlJazeera on Time's Hot-100 list

The founders of the news channel everyone loves to hate has been voted one of Time Magazine's World's 100 most...

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