tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post7830985410048566225..comments2024-03-01T08:19:54.547+00:00Comments on BobFromBrockley: The revolution of flowers: to thaw in dancing jasminesbobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-53549113073297716902011-03-10T17:25:20.289+00:002011-03-10T17:25:20.289+00:00One of the bloggers you link to (Mahmoud Jabari do...One of the bloggers you link to (Mahmoud Jabari doing a guest post on Harry's Place) was arrested a few days ago by the IDF when he was reporting on events in Hebron - he's a young photojournalist and peace activist. Happily he has now been released. <br /><br />http://www.freemedia.at/singleview/5377/Sarah ABhttp://www.adjb.net/sab/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-75083435144427378192011-02-10T07:52:37.494+00:002011-02-10T07:52:37.494+00:00And back to flowers... I just found this poem, &qu...And back to flowers... I just found this poem, "August 1952," by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (whose birth centennial is next Sunday):<br /><br />It's still distant, but there are hints of springtime:<br />some flowers, aching to bloom, have torn open their collars.<br /><br />In this era of autumn, almost winter, leaves can still be heard:<br />their dry orchestras play, hidden in corners of the garden.<br /><br />Night is still where it was, but colors at times take flight,<br />leaving red feathers of dawn on the sky.<br /><br />Don't regret our breath's use as air, our blood's as oil --<br />some lamps at last are burning in the night.<br /><br />Tilt your cup, don't hesitate! Having given up all,<br />we don't need wine. We've freed ourselves, made Time irrelevant.<br /><br />When imprisoned man opens his eyes, cages will dissolve: <br /><br />air, fire, water, earth -- all have pledged such dawns, such gardens to him.<br /><br />Your feet bleed, Faiz, something surely will bloom<br />as you water the desert simply by walking through itRichard S.htp://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-41479709515033242942011-02-08T11:46:40.775+00:002011-02-08T11:46:40.775+00:00Poetically put!
There is also this: http://en.wik...Poetically put!<br /><br />There is also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakhtin<br /><br />Some people claim to see Bakhtin's 'Carnival' in these moments.<br /><br />Tunisia gives a lot of hope.<br /><br />But Egypt - I'm not at all sure about what is coming, and anyone who is has become swept up in the 'Carnivalesque'. <br /><br />But there is always the day-after...Andrew Coateshttp://www.tendancecoatesy.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-34265934695812524282011-02-07T23:29:14.968+00:002011-02-07T23:29:14.968+00:00Old powers=army. From Foreign Affairs magazine, Eg...Old powers=army. From Foreign Affairs magazine, <a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67351/joshua-stacher/egypts-democratic-mirage?page=show" rel="nofollow">Egypt's Democratic Mirage</a>, How Cairo’s Authoritarian Regime Is Adapting to Preserve Itself, by Joshua Stacher, via <a href="http://www.arabist.net/blog/2011/2/7/stacher-its-already-over.html" rel="nofollow">The Arabist</a>.<br /><br />It makes sense to me that whatever change occurs will be managed by the army, and to the question is the army on the side of the people or on the side of the regime, the answer has to be the army is on the side of the army.<br /><br />The question then is where does the army see its interests. They're not dependent on Mubarak personally. The army lives within the national culture, and can't exist separate from it, so if the national culture is profoundly changed by the uprising, that affects the army, but to what degree? And as for the army's financial well-being, and its sense of pride, here US public opinion is important. Support for the protesters is wide in the US, but how deep is it?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/middleeast/06military.html" rel="nofollow">Here's a piece on the army from the NY Times</a> concerning differences in perception between leadership and the lower ranks here.kelliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03503738414917449549noreply@blogger.com