A protest street-theater performance staged by pro-Palestine activists outside Washington, D.C.’s Union Station in November 2025, ahead of Thanksgiving. It was a…
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Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Myanmar: History, Distortion, and the Call for Equal Citizenship
Let all the different flowers blossom in Myanmar’s garden.Only then can the nation heal, and only then can a true…
Hongwu Emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty in 1368 PRAISED ISLAM and PROPHET Muhammad
By Wahbi Al-Hariri – The Georgetown Design Group, Inc. Exhibits Trust; transferred from en.wikipedia, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4533647 Eulogy = a…
The Rejuvenation of the Old Tree Stump
Min Thu Wun – “The Pyinma Stump” Lagerstroemia Flos Reginae (1949) Translated by G.H. Luce In this hauntingly beautiful poem,…
Zaw Gyi’s Hyacinth’s Way – This Is My Way
“Still managed to wear the flower on her head.” In this evocative poem, Saya Zaw Gyi uses Ma Beda—the Burmese…
“A Verse Given, A Song Born” “ဂါတာပေး တေးဖြစ်”
“Wisdom in Song”, “The Verse That Sang” and “Sacred Lines, Sung Truths” Do Not Believe — A Poem from the…
Rabindranath Tagore ရာဘင်ဒြာ နတ် တဂိုး
“Walk Alone,” a translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Bengali song and poem ‘Ekla Chalo Re’, is an inspirational message about self-reliance, individuality, and…
It’s Hard, A Satirical Poem by Kaung Kin Ko
(A Satirical Poem by Kaung Kin Ko, 2009) It’s hard— To strike from shadows, bold and sly, Yet only bruise…
Parents and their grown-up children
No one prepares you for the silence that children leave behind when they grow up… Not the silence of an…