Climate Change Disaster Is Upon Us, Warns UN By Julian Borger The Guardian UK – Friday 05 October 2007 Emergency relief chief calls for swift action. 12 out of 13 « flash » appeals in 2007 related to weather. A record number of floods, droughts and storms around the world this year amount to a climate change « mega disaster », the United Nation’s emergency relief coordinator, Sir John Holmes, has warned. Sir John, a British diplomat who is also known as the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said dire predictions about the impact of global warming on humanity were already coming true. « We are seeing the effects…
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Ecological Dimensions in the Work of Yaşar Kemal And Abdulrahman Munif Par Clare Brandabur If the destruction of nature is not stopped, we shall first witness the end of nature, then the end of man. Yaşar Kemal (Andaç 123) Agriculture began to change in our village, life changed too. Al-Taiba, which had been a great garden full of different fruits and vegetables, became a barren land. (Adulrahman Munif. Trees and the Assassination of Marzouk) James Joyce claimed that if Dublin were ever destroyed, it could be reconstructed from a reading of Ulysses. I think it could equally be said that if the Çukurova were to…
The Year Without a Summer: Climate Change Past and Future A Clare Brandabur Fatih University If the destruction of nature is not stopped, we shall first witness the end of nature, then the end of man. – Yaşar Kemal in Living Through the Words of Yaşar Kemal by Feridun Andiç (123) Abstract: A house party on Lake Geneva in 1816 inspired works by Lord Byron, Mary Godwin Shelley and others, giving rise to famously Gothic works. However, two recent ecocritical studies show that the apocalyptic images of Byron’s “Darkness” and the frozen wastes of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein reflect the dread…
Le choix de partir ou celui de rester, et écrire Table ronde avec Évelyne Accad, Hoda Barakat, Rachid El-Daïf, Gérard D. Khoury, Charif Majdalani, Wajdi Mouawad. Modérateur : Yves Chemla * Le PDF ici : tablerondePompidou
Albert Camus, ou l’inconscient colonial Après L’Age des extrêmes, d’Eric Hobsbawm, le Monde diplomatique publie — cette fois avec Fayard — Culture et impérialisme, d’Edward W. Said. Dans ce livre, également inédit en français, le grand intellectuel américano-palestinien démontre comment l’œuvre majeure de grands écrivains occidentaux n’échappe pas à la mentalité coloniale de leur temps. Exemple : Albert Camus. par Edward W. Said, novembre 2000 Albert Camus est le seul auteur de l’Algérie française qui peut, avec quelque justification, être considéré comme d’envergure mondiale. Comme Jane Austen (1) un siècle plus tôt, c’est un romancier dont les oeuvres ont laissé échapper les réalités impériales qui s’offraient si clairement à son…