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In Fiesta!, Foreign Policy In Focus looks at the intersection of culture and foreign policy.
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The Church says: The body is a sin.
Science says: The body is a machine.
Advertising says: The body is a business.
The body says: I am a fiesta.
Eduardo Galeano, excerpt from "Window on the Body"
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The peace sign turns 50 this year. Barry Miles describes the origins of what has become a nearly universal symbol.
E. Ethelbert Miller talks with R. Victoria Arana about new black literature in Britain and its take on empire.
In the poem Possibility, Frances Payne Adler reflects on life after the closure of a military base.
John Feffer talks about efforts to build a monument to the
Iraqi civilians who have died.
A recent exhibition shows that the illustrator's pen is mightier than the sword, writes Mark Vallen in Illustrating
War.
From March 20 to 23, poets from around the country will gather in Washinton, DC for the Split This Rock poetry festival. This historic event calls poets to a greater role in public life and will bring the vital, important, challenging poetry of witness that is being written by American poets today to a larger and more diverse audience.
As part of FPIF's ongoing coverage of this important event, Sarah Browning in Hear
This Hammer Ring explains how poets are coming to Washington to hammer home a message and hammer out a new poetic vision for America in the world.
Poems
In vigil (2): Lee Sharkey describes a tense exchange at a silent peace gathering.
American Ghazals: Susan Tichy reflects on what we think about when we think about war.
Sublime: Christi Kramer compares the lives of one who leaves and one who stays behind.
2008 was a breakthrough year for musicians fighting the good fight. Check out the following 10 albums, which Foreign Policy In Focus recommends for your end-of-the-year celebrations.
With words and pictures, artist Ellen O'Grady tells a
story from the Occupied Territories.
Carmela Cruz talks with acclaimed war photographer Philip
Jones Griffith about photography, Vietnam, and the relationship between art and media.
E. Ethelbert Miller talks with Edwidge Danticat about
her new memoir, U.S. immigration law, and U.S.-Haitian relations.
Distance once increased the value of food. John Feffer asks whether the local
food movement has changed all that.
At the Istanbul Biennale, antiwar artists shock and
awe, but why is their work so alluring?
E. Ethelbert Miller talks to novelist Anya Achtenberg about
Cambodia, memory, and the lives of others.
Novels about Burma are all the rage. Kyi May Kaung discusses
the Burmese novels that you haven't read yet.
The Japanese American writer David Mura talks with
E. Ethelbert Miller about Asia, racism, and
the foreign policy of Minnesota.
Do North Korean films ultimately reveal or conceal
the reality of the famously closed society?
Iranian poet Farideh Hassanzadeh talks about war,
loss, and the politics of poetry.
"Isn't It Enough?" A poem by Farideh Hassanzadeh.
Poet and educator Kalamu ya Salaam talks with E.
Ethelbert
Miller about Hurricane Katrina, war, and geopolitics.
Bruce Springsteen belts out an old peace movement standard.
Aaron Hughes, Iraq War Veteran and artist, shares his work, a "tourist
photograph from Iraq."
E. Ethelbert Miller talks with poet Martin Espada about
the rainforest of Puerto Rico, the shantytowns of Nicaragua, and the poetry of Pablo Neruda.
"Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits," A poem by Martin
Espada.
E. Ethelbert Miller talks to poet Melissa Tuckey about
the Iraq War and the poetics of demonstrations.
Full Snow Moon, a poem by Melissa Tuckey.
The American Portrait Gallery's exploration of the presidency and
the Cold War reveals a deep longing for a man with a plan.
The Spy Museum's message: we needed spooks during
the Cold War and we need them now more than ever. But what's missing from the exhibits?
Iran recently held a cartoon contest on the Holocaust.
The winning entry was a graphic surprise.
A heavy metal band uses music to educate about a
genocide from the beginning of the last century.
E. Ethelbert Miller talks to Anan Ameri about Jimmy
Carter and Arab American art.
Ian Williams explains why rum is the true global
spirit, with its warm beating heart in the Caribbean.
Despite the admirable efforts of its director and the enthusiastic response of crowds, the new and
controversial musical Yoduk Story is not likely to
be the next Broadway hit.
The world's cup vast repository of cultural brewing capital is under attack by global
corporations.
The First World War brought on a new and revolutionary kind of art. The Dada
aesthetic rose out of the depths of a world lost in madness and murder. Now, disgust with the
war in Iraq has sparked another revival of the Dada aesthetic.
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