Vacy vlazna biography books
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'Used to dying' — memoir tells brutal history of East Timor
The hardships endured by the East Timorese are detailed in a memoir by Dr Vacy Vlazna, both a story of courage and a political analysis. Dr Jude Conway reviews East Timor Reveille for Courage: Recollections of an Australian Human Rights Activist,
DR VACY VLAZNA’S paean to the unflinching courage of the East Timorese while gaining their freedom from the brutal occupation by the Indonesian military; and to the courage of Timor’s international friends and Vlazna herself, a Sydney activist, is an account of “history in the making”.
Many previous accounts of the Timorese struggle for independence, from the invasion in to the successful United Nations (UN) sponsored referendum for independence in , have focused on the leading political actors, whereas Vlazna opens a portal to the experiences of grassroots Timorese. A timely read in , the 25th anniversary of the referendum.
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Samah Sabawi is a Palestinian-Canadian-Australian writer, commentator and playwright. Her writings have been published in various media outlets and her poetry has been featured in several magazines and books. Samah is a policy advisor to the Palestinian policy network, AlShabaka, and a former public advocate for Australians for Palestine. Her roots in war torn besieged Gaza has shaped her identity and humanity.
Dr Ramzy Baroud was born in a refugee camp in Gaza. His first line of creative writing was the opening of a poem in Arabic, written late at night, with no electricity, during an Israeli military curfew. At 19, his first collection of Arabic poems was published in secret at a Gaza printing house in He is an internationally-syndicated columnist, a media consultant, an author, the founder/editor of the Palestine Chronicle and other media projects around the world. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter’s European Centre for Palestine Studies.
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