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Category Archives: War

The Freedom Gun

Saturday, July 14, 2007

A rather odd video report on New York Times today highlighting the AK-47 machine gun as it turns 60 today. In the video, at what appears to be a celebratory conference honoring the AK-47, the Defence Attache to Zimbabwe and Vietnam are giving speeches that pay tribute to the gun in which they “see Freedom.” [...]

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Vice Trails Metal Band in Baghdad

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Episode 1 of The Black Scorpion of Baghdad, a 7 part documentary that follows a heavy metal band Acrassicauda (l. black scorpion) in Baghdad after the US invasion with footage of concerts in and around war torn Baghdad. It amazes me how simple it was for Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti to enter Iraq without [...]

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Flash Back, Words by Paul Chan

Friday, December 29, 2006

I bought this painting in a decrepit stairway just outside what is now know as the ‘green zone’ in Baghdad. I find dreamy women (and men) incredibly attractive. Yasser, the painter agreed. He also assured me that the man on the upper left corner was not Lenin. I bought it anyway. There were many painters [...]

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Prêt-Á-Guerre

Friday, November 18, 2005

What do people wear during war-time? An Exhibit at Bard.

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