Wanda Waterman is a poet, spoken word artist, blogger, cultural journalist, and digital nomad. She’s been writing regularly for The Voice Magazine since 2004, not long after she began studying psychology at Athabasca. Her poetry has been published in Descant, The Talking Leaves, Chizine, Our Times, The Best of Tigertail, and Pottersfield Portfolio and her articles in Design is Political, Rawckus Magazine, Coastal Life, The New Internationalist, This Magazine, and in her blog, The Mindful Bard. She grew up in Nova Scotia, but after having lived in New Hampshire and North Africa she’s now settled in Montreal.
(Read Part I of this two-part series here.) ?In traditional Arabian medicine, Hijama literally means sucking (cupping), and includes wet and dry cupping, but in Arabian culture Hijama refers to wet cupping. Hijama is generally performed by Muslims, as it is a form of medicine specifically mentioned and encouraged by the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Among… Read more »
Film: Submarine (Warp Films 2010) Director: Richard Ayoade Screenwriter: Richard Ayoade, based on the novel by Joe Dunthorne Cast: Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine, Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Stefan Rhodri, Sally Hawkins ?For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate… Read more »
“Happy New Year! The Conjunto Roque Moreira wishes you peace, health, happiness, success, and we hope in 2011 we can go to Canada to show our work to this wonderful country . . . We have news! We begin to record our new CD in January. Cheers!? Anderson Almeida, drummer and vocalist for Conjunto Roque… Read more »
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On the afternoon of November 22, Dr. Mohamed Dorgham is heading out to join the protestors in Alexandria, Egypt, his native city?and the location of his new clinic, Integrated Alternative Medicine. As a mere 20-something, he feels a sense of hope when he sees the proactive stance of his generation and the possibility of his… Read more »
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An Interdisciplinary Study of the Psyche Film: Inception (Warner Bros. 2011) Writer/Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine As Art Dob visits his wife, Moll. In the high-rise where she committed suicide. They have a conversation. In a dream. Within… Read more »
Album: Amir ElSaffar, Inana (2011) Miles Davis on a Camel Inana is Amir ElSaffar’s fourth solo album and just one small part of an extremely productive and exciting?even film-worthy?artistic career. His childhood in a suburb of Chicago exposed him to an eclectic mix of American genres. He listened to rock, folk, blues, and jazz; his… Read more »
Film: Zenith (2010) Written and supervised by Vladan Nikolic Directed by Anonymous Cast: Peter Scanavino, Jason Robards III, Ana Asensio, David Thornton, Al Nazemian ?Once something has reached its Zenith there always follows an inevitable decline, the sun proves this every day. This is what our society faces . . . This recession is the… Read more »
Book: Frances Fox Piven, Who’s Afraid of Frances Fox Piven? The Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate (The New Press 2011) A Necessary Defiance Last year Frances Fox Piven got a request from a student wanting to interview her for a term assignment, the subject of which was Piven’s book Challenging… Read more »