Exile

Exiled Labor Leader Honored by AFL-CIO

David Macaray | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Exile, Mexico, Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, The George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award, Afl-Cio, Labor Unions, Unions, Politics News
David Macaray

Labor union leader Napoleón Gómez Urrutia recently received a human rights award from the AFL-CIO at a ceremony held in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to accept the award himself.

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For Basque Radicals, Cuba Turns From Refuge to Prison

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Basques, Eta, Cuba, Exile, Basque Eta, World News
Yoani Sanchez

I was eight months pregnant when I met two Basque radicals living in Cuba, Rosa and Carlos, or at least that's what they called themselves then. They ...

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Consuming Britney: Oops We Did It Again

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Exile, Christopher Smit, The Exile of Britney Spears, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Gossip, Tabloids, Mickey Mouse, Complicit, Consuming, Celebrity, Disney, Entertainment News
Cathleen Falsani

Three years ago, the Associated Press had written Britney Spears' obituary. Just in case. Spears was 26 and seemingly mid-freefall in an epic tumb...

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Lebanon: Finding Consensus Without the Factions

James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Exile, White House, Hezbollah Lebanon, Lebanon, Lebanon Exiles, George MItchell, Middle East, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, World News
James Zogby

"Exiles" and their politics are part of the very fabric of American life. But there are many times when "exile" politics have proved to be a problem -- with the recent Iraq debacle, a case in point, and fragmented Lebanon being another.

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What to Buy for Christmas in Cuba?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuba, Exile, Tax, Christmas, Basic Necessities, Castro, Pampers, US Dollars, Pesos, Cuc, World News
Yoani Sanchez

The money came in a white envelope, brought to the door by an illegal agency. "Use it to celebrate Christmas," the accompanying note read, ending with a brief, "bye."

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Dalai Lama: 50 Million People Displaced Around The World

The Toronto Star | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exile, Displaced People, Dalai Lama, Refugees, Displacement, Impact News

"Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience," the late Palestinian scholar Edward Said once wrote. "It is the unhealable ...

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From Rage to Civilization

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brothers Mann, Jews, Literature, Pogroms, Switzerland, Bertold Brecht, Heinrich Mann, Conservative, Hitler, Rage, Thomas Mann, France, Exile, Character, Nazis, World War I, McCarran Act, Merits of Hufpost, Nobel Prize, Mccarthy, Moral Growth, Civilisation, Socialism, Books, World War II, Nixon, Brothers, Kaiser, German Literature, Ossietsky, Books News
Nigel Hamilton

One of the nice things about blogging on Huff Post is not only can you expound on your chosen subject in more than a soundbite, but you may find yours...

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Dalai Lama Celebrates 75th Birthday In India With Supporters

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Exile, Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama Birthday, Katmandu, Nepal, Dalai Lama 75th Birthday, Tibet, Dalai Lama Birthday Celebration, World News

(AP) DHARMSALA, India — The Dalai Lama celebrated his 75th birthday Tuesday with hundreds of cheering followers in this northern Indian town whe...

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Colm Toibin On The Anger Of Exile

The New York Review of Books | Colm Toibin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cockroach, Rabih Alameddine, Rawi Hage Cockroach, Exile, Colm Toibin, The Hakawati, Lebanon, Rawi Hage, Books, New York Review of Books, Books News

In two recent novels, both written in English, two novelists from Lebanon now living in North America offer further dramatization of exile: they allow...

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Bangladesh Author Taslima Nasreen Exiled From India, Gets Her Last Visa

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, India, Exile, Islamic Extremism, Bangladesh, Books, Taslima Nasrin, Taslima Nasreen, Salman Rushdie, Censorship, Books News

Bangladesh writer Taslima Nasreen, forced to flee her homeland by Muslim extremists, said Wednesday that India had told her it will no longer renew he...

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Afro-Brazilian History, Beats and Culture

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lauri Lyons

While Africa and America are often recognized as the book ends of the African Diaspora, there is an additional link in the Middle Passage that is less publicized, but no less important.

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Private Health Care is Stranding U.S. Expats Overseas

James Glave | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exile, Single Payer, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Expats, Politics News
James Glave

There are a number of Americans who left the country at some point for various reasons -- and who now can't return because they or their dependents are effectively uninsurable.

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Can't Get Arrested

Michael Archer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exile, Tianamen Massacre, wuer_kaixi, Wuer Kaixi, China, Freedom, Republic of China, Taipei-Republic of China, Taiwan, Macau, World News
Michael Archer

I asked Wuer Kaixi, one of the most prominent student leaders of the uprising, where he planned to be on anniversary of the Tianamen massacre. The second most wanted man in China hesitated.

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Two Meals, One Story: A Perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from an American Abroad

Amy York Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Russia, Jews, Holocaust, Gaza, France, Israelis, Homeland, Palestinians, Jewish Culture, Barack Obama, Obama Jews, Israelis Palestinians, Exile, Religion, Shabbat Dinner, Austria, Soldiers, Egypt, Germany, Muslims, Religion and Politics, Israel, Sweden, World News
Amy York Rubin

From their merging of religious tradition with daily life to their personal and historical narratives, the similarities between Muslims and Jews living in Israel is almost tragically comical.

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