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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran denounces Oxford scholarship

So, as I said, I have been feeling guilty about not posting about the goings on Iran of late, and I am beginning to formulate some posts I’d like to write, but this news article caught my eye. No matter how much I might disagree with and oppose the ...

From RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN, Alas, a blog,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: BBC

Richard Jeffrey Newman on The Power of Poetry

Marcia is a perceptive reader and wonderful interviewer and her questions led me to see things in my poetry that I hadn’t seen before. My favorite part of the conversation was about the poem called “Working The Dotted Line,” which tells the story of ...

From RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN, Alas, a blog,  8 Nov 2009

Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question - from The New York Times

The Supreme Court in England is set to rule by the end of this year on a case involving a question that has vexed Jewish communities throughout the world for centuries: Who is a Jew? The case began because a 12-year-old boy whose father was born Jewish ...

From RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN, Alas, a blog,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company

Writing and Pain; Community and Hope

I haven’t been writing and it hurts; it’s a tightness in my chest and a twist in my gut, and there is a part of me that wants to scream. Well, maybe not scream, but at least to grunt, let out some exclamation of frustration that I have not been making ...

From RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN, Alas, a blog,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sultan

I Know I’ve Had Orgasms That Changed Me

A friend of mine who does not like jazz–especially anything that has a saxophone in it–told me once about a conversation she and her ex-husband, a serious jazz-lover, had over dinner with a couple, the male half of which also loved jazz, while the ...

From RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN, Alas, a blog,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Keith Jarrett,  Langer Inc.

Thinking About The Relationship Between Teaching, Grading and Learning, or “You Don’t Want To Sound Like A Black Girl From The Suburbs”

Three students from my technical writing class came to see me during my office hours a couple of weeks ago because they were unhappy with the grades they received on their first assignment of the semester and they wanted my help in rewriting it for a ...

From RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN, Alas, a blog,  27 Oct 2009

“Zahhak: We’d Need To Hear The Mother’s Story” published on Ekleksographia

If your submitted comment fails to appear, without even an error or "waiting for moderation" message, then our spam-blocking software may have blocked your comment. Please contact the moderators immediately so we can rescue your comment. If this ...

From RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN, Alas, a blog,  24 Oct 2009

Reading Suheir Hammad’s ZaatarDiva and Kazim Ali’s The Far Mosque

This review was originally posted on a literary blog that no longer exists called The Great American Pinup. My understanding is that the blog was hacked and that attempts by the people who ran the blog to resolve things using Google’s help screens were ...

From RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN, Alas, a blog,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Baruch Goldstein,  Google Inc.,  Nassau Community College

I am on this Panel: Persian Poetry: Origins, Translations, and Influences

This panel should be very interesting and, given what’s been going on in Iran and the new protests that took place there yesterday, I think it’s a good time to learn more about Iranian culture. If you’re in NY, I hope you’ll come. This event is free ...

From RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN, Alas, a blog,  19 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Rumi (musician),  City University of New York,  Nassau Community College

Reading “The Man In The White Sharkskin Suit,” by Lucette Lagnado

I just finished reading The Man in the White Sharksin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World, by Lucette Lagnado, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal whom we have invited to read as part of Nassau Community College’s Literature, ...

From RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN, Alas, a blog,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  Nassau Community College

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