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25 Ocak 2010 Pazartesi
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11 Ocak 2010 Pazartesi
Kubad-Abad
“Siren (simurg, harpi ) başı insan, gövdesi kuş olarak tasvir edilen bir yaratıktır. Olağanüstü güçlerini bizi korumak için kullanır. Orta Asya’da “tuğrul” da denen Kaf dağında yaşayan bu masal yaratığı, İslami destanlarda çaresizlere yardıma koşan melek olarak yer tutmuştur.”
Rüçhan Arık
“Kubad-Abad Selçuklu Saray Ve Çinileri” (Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayını –İstanbul-2000)
7 Ocak 2010 Perşembe
6 Ocak 2010 Çarşamba
Re-invent the world, re-imagine the future
This is not the world we dreamt of fifteen years ago! This is definitely not the future we hoped for.
Our world has lost its way, it is heading backwards. The West is fast losing its moral credibility, and nobody else seems to be offering valuable alternatives for mankind. Certainly not the Arab world where I come from!
Let’s face it: this entire world is in total disarray. It desperately needs to be re-imagined, re-invented, in order to be rebuilt on sounder grounds. We need to overcome that sterile conflict of identities. We need to build a human culture which would include significant elements of each culture, so nobody would feel excluded. So nobody would indulge in hatred and self hatred, in destruction and self destruction
Re-invent the world, re-imagine the future: that is not a task that should be left to political or religious activists. It is precisely the task of poets, essayists and novelists. It is up to the writers of the six continents to strike the right notes, to find the right balance between universality and diversity. Universality of fundamental human values, diversity of languages and cultural expressions.
It is ultimately up to us to determine whether our century will go down in history as the century of suicide or the century of imagination, the century of human folly or the century of human wisdom, the century of the bomb or the century of the pen.
At no time in History were writers more indispensable. At no other time in history was the burden of change so heavy on their shoulders.
Amin Maalouf
Tromsø – Norway
September 11th 2004
Our world has lost its way, it is heading backwards. The West is fast losing its moral credibility, and nobody else seems to be offering valuable alternatives for mankind. Certainly not the Arab world where I come from!
Let’s face it: this entire world is in total disarray. It desperately needs to be re-imagined, re-invented, in order to be rebuilt on sounder grounds. We need to overcome that sterile conflict of identities. We need to build a human culture which would include significant elements of each culture, so nobody would feel excluded. So nobody would indulge in hatred and self hatred, in destruction and self destruction
Re-invent the world, re-imagine the future: that is not a task that should be left to political or religious activists. It is precisely the task of poets, essayists and novelists. It is up to the writers of the six continents to strike the right notes, to find the right balance between universality and diversity. Universality of fundamental human values, diversity of languages and cultural expressions.
It is ultimately up to us to determine whether our century will go down in history as the century of suicide or the century of imagination, the century of human folly or the century of human wisdom, the century of the bomb or the century of the pen.
At no time in History were writers more indispensable. At no other time in history was the burden of change so heavy on their shoulders.
Amin Maalouf
Tromsø – Norway
September 11th 2004
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