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Christopher Hitchens, esteemed essayist, author and journalist.
1949 – 2011
“One thing that grave illness does is to make you examine familiar principles and seemingly reliable sayings. And there’s one that I find I am not saying with quite the same conviction as I once used to: In particular, I have slightly stopped issuing the announcement that ‘Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”
Canadian artist Peter Lewis turns Ove Arup’s Kingsgate footbridge into a waterfall for Lumiere 2011, Durham.
Guerrilla Dances is of a repertoire of 23 short, sharp dance pieces By Liz Aggiss. Reconstructing archive choreography, mixing up the past, the present, fact and fiction, Guerrilla Dances builds into a coherent sequence of astonishing monochrome vignettes.
Liz Aggiss has many bees in her dancing bonnet and mercifully none of them take very long.
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish captured hearts and headlines around the world in the aftermath of horrific tragedy: on January 16, 2009, Israeli shells hit his home in the Gaza Strip, killing three of his daughters and a niece.
Born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Abuelaish has overcome many personal hardships to become one of the most outspoken, prominent and beloved researchers, educators and public speakers on peace and development in the Middle East.
