Montreal Serai

March, 2010

Editorial

31-03-10

Women Changing the World Maya Khankhoje

              It was exactly  a hundred years ago that Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social  Read more…

Music

31-03-10

Catherine Potter-Duniya Project Rana Bose

  Montreal Serai Editor Rana Bose interviewed Catherine Potter, leader of the Catherine Potter-Duniya Project, after her show at the  Read more…

Interview

31-03-10

A Woman Changing Women’s Health. Interview with Shree Mulay Maya Khankhoje

    Dr. Shree Mulay , Professor Emerita of the Department of Medicine of McGill University in Montreal, is currently  Read more…

Art

31-03-10

Lives Painted Over Vithal Rajan

  Edited by Susan Dubrofsky Has the work of artists who are women been attributed incorrectly more frequently than that  Read more…

Interview

31-03-10

Triple Trouble Bernard Miller

  Think old people can be troublesome? You don’t know the half of it! Why didn’t my mother warn me?  Read more…

Film Review

31-03-10

Taking Root Maya Khankhoje

        Taking Root. The vision of Wangari Maathai. Documentary. DVD 2008, Mongrel Media.             Taking Root is  Read more…

Commentary

31-03-10

Sodi Sambo: The Woman Who Cannot Be Forgotten Priyanka Borpujari

  Why would one state government spend sleepless nights trying to provide maximum security to someone whose mere existence is  Read more…

Commentary

31-03-10

George Sand : une femme remarquable / A remarkable woman Irène Johnson

English version below. An extract from the documentary George Sand: The Story of Her Life produced by CNDP 2004, Montreal (Quebec)  Read more…

Performance Prose

31-03-10

Woman in a line up Anna Fuerstenberg

  To listen to this text click here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Oh excuse me, I just got pushed  Read more…

Short Story

31-03-10

Bike Story Son Mother Maria Worton

  …I don’t know why I’ve agreed to this… but here I am… here we are… he briskly raps the  Read more…

Short Story

31-03-10

Round and Round Susan Dubrofsky

            In grade seven, I had a crush on Eric.  Tall, lean, gorgeous Eric.  He was in the same year  Read more…

Commentary

31-03-10

Doting daughters. You haven’t come a long way, baby! Mirella Bontempo

  After years of denouncing Mother Country’s contempt for its emigrants stuck in the 1950s, I am airing the dirty  Read more…

Prose

30-03-10

The Imam’s Daughter Loren Edizel

  I was a teenager the last time I saw Fatma. I had just returned home for my summer vacation  Read more…

Book Review

30-03-10

A Woman Among Warlords – by Malalai Joya Maria Worton

  Reading A Woman Among Warlords you may find yourself forgetting on occasion that this is, in fact, a work  Read more…

Book Review

30-03-10

Perfect Hostage Maya Khankhoje

    PERFECT HOSTAGE. Aun San Suu Kyi, Burma and the Generals. By Justin Wintle.  Arrow, 2007. In Burma there  Read more…

Book Review

30-03-10

The Heart Does Break Anne Cimon

  The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning, edited by George Bowering and Jean Baird, Random House  Read more…

Commentary

30-03-10

My First Time with Salman Rushdie Sana Saeed

  Amongst the most memorable names  that I heard as a child, growing up in a South Asian Muslim household,  Read more…

Poetry

30-03-10

Stiletto, Heels and a Pork Pie Hat – a collection of poetry Luigi Monteferrante

  The following poems are taken from Luigi Moneferrante’s new collection entitled:   Stiletto Heels And a Pork Pie Hat On  Read more…

Music

30-03-10

The Housewife’s Lament Anne Dubrofsky

  The Housewife’s Lament was written as a protest song, out of the experience of women in the not too  Read more…

Poetry Review

30-03-10

Review of Stephen Morrissey’s Girouard Avenue Jody Freeman

  Girouard Avenue, copyright Stephen Morrissey 2009, Coracle Press (Montreal), 80 pages. The Girouard Avenue that Stephen Morrissey offers us  Read more…

Poetry Review

30-03-10

Review of Ilona Martonfi’s Blue Poppy Jody Freeman

  Blue Poppy, copyright Ilona Martonfi 2009, Coracle Press, 72 pages In Ilona Martonfi’s new book of poetry, the title  Read more…

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