Montreal Serai

December, 2006

Prose

01-12-06

Busted by love Anna Fuerstenberg

It was the craziest thing. I was just going home from rehearsal, and I was so caught up that I  Read more…

Commentary

01-12-06

West bank landscaping Mary-Ellen Davis

(In the heart of the West Bank, checkpoints separate Palestinian youth and instructors from their classrooms ; by September the  Read more…

Photo Essay

01-12-06

Bombing montreal Susan Dubrofsky & Maya Khankhoje

Montreal has the distinction of being the most “bombed-out” graffiti capital. “Bombing” in the graffiti world refers to the act  Read more…

Commentary

01-12-06

Everyone should be Palestinians or Jews Miles Weinstein

Lately, opinion writers have taken to labeling everyone who supports the Palestinians, as “Palestinians”. For instance, Canada’s changing UN votes  Read more…

Music

01-12-06

A Voice of the People Tania Nesterovski

I was born in Barquisimeto, known as the musical capital of Venezuela. As a child I discovered that my voice  Read more…

Art

01-12-06

Art/Artists Ellen Gabriel

{Montreal Native Canadian artist and Mohawk activist, Ellen Gabriel, through her paintings and drawings, takes part in deconstructing the negative  Read more…

Commentary

01-12-06

the u.s. is at war Eduardo Galeano

By Eduardo Galeano. Writer, Uruguay Translation. coorditrad@attac.org volunteer translators (*) Times of fear. The world is living in a state  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-06

bhopal, 1984 Jaspreet Singh

Bhopal , 1984 Night shift: He separates smells with ease Dust of pesticide enfolds him like ivories Entangled in Carbide’s  Read more…

Art

01-12-06

FEATURED ARTIST: LORRAINE SIMMS Lorraine Simms

URGENCE Lorraine Simms has been painting professionally since 1991. Her work is represented in many private and public collections, including  Read more…

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01-12-06

Inside Me Peter Fourie

I lose people. They die in ways that are incomprehensible to me. Making their entry in an almost gentle and  Read more…

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01-12-06

The Call: A Short Story Rawi Hage

[Rawi Hage is a Montreal writer. Born in Lebanon, he immigrated to Canada in 1992. His work has appeared in  Read more…

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01-12-06

WHEN CULTURE MEETS SCIENCE Mark Kingwell

[Mark Kingwell is the author of several book including In Pursuit of Happiness. His essays have appeared in Harper's, Utne  Read more…

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01-12-06

ECONOMIC TERRORISM Michel Chuossudovsky

[Michel Chossudovsky is Professor of Economics at University of Ottawa] In Yugoslavia, the IMF has become the steadfast financial bureaucracy  Read more…

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01-12-06

NOAM CHOMSKY: ON HUMANISM AND MORALITY Tor Wennerberg

[NOAM CHOMSKY is one of America's most prominent political dissidents. A renowned professor of linguistics at MIT, he has authored  Read more…

Editorial

01-12-06

“AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD”

[The editorial below confines itself to the task of establishing a set of principles that will determine, in advance of  Read more…

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01-12-06

AFTER THE AUDIT Ian McDonald

History never confesses. “Guyana cannot be allowed to slip into a state of ethnic division or social polarization. Every leader,  Read more…

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01-12-06

THE NATO IMPERATIVE Jooneed Khan

It’s Day Forty-seven, the bombings continue and “tragic mistakes” and “regretful errors” too and ruined life hourly trickles out of  Read more…

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01-12-06

RETROUVAILLES Terrie Shauer

I think I went looking for Julie because I was tired and hungry. It was miserable Wednesday night — dark,  Read more…

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01-12-06

tempus fugit maya khankhoje

Tempus Fugit Yes. It was true. There was no doubt about it. The telltale signs on the grass and leaves  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-06

serai sands nilambri ghai

Serai Sands A decade slips by A millennium approaches And we return To search for new Serais For blinded and  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-06

invisible bombays Jaspreet Singh

INVISIBLE BOMBAYS We left somewhere a life we never found, Customs and gods that are not born again… –Dereck Walcott.  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-06

icons of a well-weathered life maya khankhoje

Icons of a well-weathered life I have taken to brushing my cheek Against the silky smoothness My babies! Of your  Read more…

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01-12-06

madeleine parent speaks Nilambri Ghai

CUTTING THROUGH THE CONSTITUTIONAL SMOKESCREEN Serai: Madame Parent, since you have seen so much and participated in so much that  Read more…

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01-12-06

a letter to the CBC basil papadimos

To: Ken Chubb CBC Television Re: Television Drama Series Writing Workshop for Professional writers with experience in another medium, Mr.  Read more…

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01-12-06

death in the desert abouali farmanfarmian

As I sit to contemplate a count-down to war (D-38) I can’t help but be fragmented. Not in my persuasions  Read more…

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01-12-06

sign of the times s. ramgoolam

Discovering a New Word After being punched up, bruised and bloodied, South Shore black businessman Francis Ojo was thrown into  Read more…

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01-12-06

Shakuntala Nowry – trailblazer Nilambri Ghai

Dr. Rita Shakuntala Nowry, a family physician in obstetrics has been in Montreal since 1967. One of the pioneer women  Read more…

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01-12-06

serai images from the past Vanessa Chio, Mehdi Naimi, & George Beriault

As Serai started out originally in hard copy, below we have collected a few of the many covers and cartoons  Read more…

Editorial

01-12-06

twenty years on from november 11th, 1986 Rana Bose

This e-zine’s been around for as long as there have been e-zine’s on the web…or so it seems. Since 1995,  Read more…

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01-12-06

APRIL 30TH SHOULD BE A NATIONAL HOLIDAY Michael Moore

[MICHAEL MOORE, along with free-thinkers like Noam Chomsky, is the conscience of America. He directed the film Roger and Me,  Read more…

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