A Tenuous Peace
This all started with the desire to better understand what happens to a place once 21 years of civil war slips into the past with the signing of a peace agreement.
Archive of September, 2009
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widge
September 24, 2009
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 18°C] When I heard that Stefan Christoff was preparing for his second photo exhibit, I knew I had to go. His first one displayed photos from a trip he made to Lebanon. I bought one of the photographs in the exhibit of an image of Yasser Arafat stencilled onto a decaying wall [...]
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widge
September 23, 2009
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 22°C] Yesterday, a very good friend lead me to the article, Why I Love Al Jazeera by Robert D. Kaplan. The title reminded me of why I, too, loved the English-language edition of the Qatar-based Arab TV channel. I first started watching it every evening while staying with friends in Juba, Southern [...]
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widge
September 17, 2009
This is Rose Achan Beryl’s story.
During a 7-week visit to Southern Sudan, I interviewed about a dozen Southern Sudanese men and women. Each one offers an intimate view of their lives during the 21-year civil war and since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005. We get a glimpse into their family lives [...]
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widge
September 14, 2009
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 18°C] The upcoming 2010 elections in Sudan and the 2011 self-determination referendum for Southern Sudan, are fraught with many important challenges for everyone involved. But the challenges are probably greatest for women, both in the voting process and for representation in the respective legislatures.
According to a recent Inter Press Service (IPS) article, [...]
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widge
September 5, 2009
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 17°C] It’s been one and a half years since I decided to close the books of Cumulus Press and begin anew with mobile journalism and documentary filmmaking. But the love of books has never really dissipated and every so often I come across the printed page in all of its creative spleandour [...]
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