Book Review: The Honey Thief by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman
By Richard Marcus Whenever I’ve wanted to learn something about a culture I’d read the stories the people told each other. Not the stories others tell about them, or what’s been written about them in history books, but the ones which have been passed down from generation to generation. They could be anything from myths [...]
Hazara People Rights: We have started two new poetry projects dedicated to the Hazara people. Our projects are a chain poem and a poetry anthology. So far the following 59 poets from 35 countries have joined us: Luisa Vicioso Sánchez, Dominican Republic John Curl, USA K. SATCHIDANANDAN, India Alina Beatrice Chesca, Romania Angelee Deodhar, India [...]
Continue reading …World Poetry Day: 324 Poets from 93 Countries Unite to Stop Genocide of Hazara
March 21, 2013 No Comment
324 noted poets including Nobel, Pulitzer, continental and national literary prize winners as well as the presidents of the international poetry festivals, presidents of PEN clubs, and writers associations from 93 countries have chosen to release an open letter to world leaders, this March 21st . They have chosen to observe World Poetry Day by [...]
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270 noted poets including Nobel, Pulitzer, continental and national literary prize winners as well as presidents of international poetry festivals, presidents of PEN clubs, and writers associations from 88 countries have signed an open letter to world leaders, declaring their solidarity with the Hazara people. For more than a century, the Hazara people of [...]
Continue reading …An open letter from World-wide Poets addressed to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, and President of the United States, Barack Obama.
February 9, 2013 1 Comment
Dear Sirs, After more than a century of systematic crimes such as genocide, slavery, sexual abuse, war crimes, and discrimination, being a Hazara still appears to be a crime in Afghanistan and Pakistan. As recently as Thursday, January 10, 2013, more than one-hundred Hazara were killed in an organized terrorist attack on the city of [...]
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Ab’ul Hasan Yam?n ud-D?n Khusrow, originally a member of Lachin branch of the Hazara people was born in Patiyali in Uttar Pradesh. He was one of the most famous poets in 13 and 14 centuries. Here are some of his literary works: Tuhfa-tus-Sighr (Offering of a Minor) his first divan, contains poems composed between the age of [...]
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Great Hazara poet and philosopher Mawlana Jalal-ud-Din Balkhi-Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) Photo © UNESCO/D. Bijeljac
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by Asef Ali Mohammad Sony World Photography awards Student Focus winner Asef Ali Mohammad shares his hopes and fears as he starts his career in photography Source Guardian UK It’s often said that now is the hardest time to be a photographer – the challenge of being commercially successful is greater than ever and the [...]
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Book Description A New Generation of Poets from Afghanistan : This collection of contemporary poems is by noted Hazara writer and journalist, Kamran Mir Hazar. Kamran voices the Hazara experience of the harassed refugee who longs to pursue his art, but is gagged by corrupt authorities at nearly every turn. Though he suffered stifling prejudice, [...]
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