He tells me that the government came to decontaminate his house simply by washing the walls and the roof.
Forced Nomads
Volume 29 Issue 1
Art of Roberto Godoy (aka El PoPy)
Born in Guatemala in Central America in 1950, Roberto Godoy has been living in Montréal since […]

Dheepan
Dheepan is a Tamil-language film directed by French director Jacques Audiard, featuring Jesuthasan Anthonythasan as Dheepan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan as his […]

Forced Nomads
Following the rhythm of the seasons suggests an ebb and flow: a life in harmony.
Throat-singing (katajjaq) workshop opens hearts
Generous Inuit throat singer, Nina Segalowitz, offers Montrealers an unforgettable experience: the joy of playing – using […]
Farida – a book review
Farida by Naïm Kattan, translated by Norman Cornett and Antonio D’Alfonso, Guernica Editions, 252 pp. Canadian novelist, essayist and critic, […]

Refugees Welcome, Refugees Go Back
For six days, Imraan and his fellow passengers talked about games and films, keeping themselves distracted from thoughts of their families and the war they had left behind.

Island in the Sun – Migrant Experiences in Cyprus
The desires for freedom, safety and self-determination move people across the globe, away from familiar landscapes and across geographic […]
Whose side are you on?
Spoiler alert: If you are a devoted believer that putting Canadian “boots on the ground” in Syria will […]
Braver Than Anyone
The eyes of the taxi driver regard me in the mirror. “Why are you going out in this storm?” […]

Syria: the sexed-up Libya Plan that derailed NATO
But the Empire is wracked with growing contradictions.

Forced Nomads
Rampant globalization, senseless war, anthropogenic climate change, unbridled technological innovation and even (why not?) old-fashioned greed are the ingredients that lead to massive destabilization of human populations.

Notes on Syria and the Great Refugee Crisis
What we are seeing is a return of chaos whenever there is a unilateral decision to close borders

Urban (and a few other) Current Forced Nomads
Together, perhaps we can recover our common spaces and our interdependent communities

“Building relationships across language, culture, geography, religion and race…” An Interview with Robin Pacific
Here I was, a seventy-year old Canadian artist, and yet I found the garment workers in Bangladesh eager to participate and to be part of something.

Emergence of a Stateless Population: Fleeing Rohingyas of Myanmar
The Rohingyas become a stateless population in 1982

FIFA 2016
Hu has a lithe and beautiful body which he struts throughout the film in a fluid graceful calligraphy