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BY JASMINE H. SEYMOUR It is hard to imagine what this friendly face with a Mona Lisa smile might look like now, in captivity for almost four months. The ordeal of Maral Najarian and her distressed family is inconceivable for those who have not been through wars, captivity, and brutal exploitation. The international media and decision makers of the free world once again display double standards dealing with humanitarian disasters. While the disappearance (voluntarily) of the daughter of Dubai’s ruler was treated as major international calamity, the destiny of hundreds of Armenian POWs, including women and civilians, tortured, and abused in Azerbaijani prisons, does not concern the leading international media. ....
REUTERS NEWS SCHEDULE AT 11:00 GMT/06:00 ET Reuters 1/24/2021 Here are the top stories and upcoming coverage plans for Reuters text service as of 11 a.m. GMT/6 a.m. ET. For a full schedule of news and events, go to our editorial calendar on Reuters Connect https://www.reutersconnect.com/planning. TOP STORIES U.S. carrier group enters South China Sea amid Taiwan tensions TAIPEI - A U.S. aircraft carrier group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt has entered the South China Sea to promote “freedom of the seas”, the U.S. military said on Sunday, at a time when tensions between China and Taiwan have raised concern in Washington. ....
In 2017, I came across an extraordinary document in Sydney’s Mitchell Library: a handwritten list of 178 Aboriginal place names for Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River, compiled in 1829 by a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend John McGarvie. I was stunned. I stared at the screen, hardly believing my eyes. After years of research, my own and others, I thought most of the Aboriginal names for the river were lost forever, destroyed in the aftermath of invasion and dispossession. Yet, suddenly, this cache of riches. A page from Rev McGarvie’s 1829 list of Aboriginal names for places on Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales ....
Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch won the fiction prize for her novel The Yield . Songspirals: Sharing women s wisdom of Country through songlines by the Gay wu Group of Women was the joint winner of the non-fiction prize alongside Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson. Cooee Mittigar: A story on Darug Songlines by Jasmine Seymour, illustrated by Leanne Mulgo Watson won the Children s Literature prize. The $80,000 fiction prize is the latest accolade for Ms Winch, who has also taken out the NSW Premier s Literary Awards Book of the Year, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. ....
Tara June Winch’s The Yield has won the fiction category of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. I wrote an enthusiastic review of this novel earlier in 2020, and my admiration has not abated in the months since it won the Miles Franklin award. If anything, the heart of the story one of reclaiming language, culture, identity, and a possible future seems only more potent now. There is nothing new about the knowledge that whose stories are told, and how they are told, matters enormously. Or understanding that a significant part of what becomes the shared “truth” of a time and culture is the product of the stories told and told again until they are embedded in a reader’s sense of the world. ....