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Frieze Writer's Prize 2018: Announcing the Winner
Dereck Stafford Mangus wins the 2018 prize for his review of Jack Whitten's exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art
frieze is delighted to announce Dereck Stafford Mangus as the winner of the 2018 Writer's Prize for his review of Jack Whitten's exhibition 'Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017', at the Baltimore Museum of Art. This year's prize was judged by frieze's senior editor, Andrew Durbin, writer Billy Kahora and artist Amy Sillman.
Andrew Durbin said of the winning entry: 'As judges, we looked for clear writing that both captured the qualities of an artist's work and provided the reader with a strong sense of a show. In the short space of a 700-word review of Jack Whitten's 'Odyssey: Sculpture 1963–2017' at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Boston-based writer and artist Dereck Stafford Mangus addressed the aesthetic and historical complexities of a career that spanned six decades without sacrificing a close reading of individual works. Most importantly, he eloquently accomplished what we expect of all good writing: he kept us wanting to know more.'
Frieze Writer's Prize is an annual international award to discover and promote new art critics. The winner is commissioned to write a review that will be published in frieze and is awarded GBP£2,000.
Andrew Durbin lives in New York. He is the author of Mature Themes (2014) and MacArthur Park (2017), which was a finalist for the 2018 Believer Book Award. He is the US Senior Editor of frieze.
Billy Kahora is a Kenyan writer and editor based in Nairobi, Billy Kahora is the editor of Kwani? journal and has been shortlisted for the Caine prize for his stories 'Treadmill Love', 'Urban Zoning' and 'Gorilla's Apprentice'.
Amy Sillman is a New York-based artist whose major 2014 solo exhibition 'One lump or two' travelled from Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston to Aspen Art Museum, Colorado and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York. Sillman's first institutional exhibition in the UK opens at Camden Arts Centre, London, on 28 September.
Jack Whitten, 'Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017'
Baltimore Museum of Art, USA
22 April – 29 July, 2018
We stand before a huge picture that suggests an aerial view of urban sprawl – yet this is no regular city. What we see here, from a bird's-eye view, is a futuristic megalopolis, more organic than orthogonal. It resembles Wakanda's Birnin Zana, the fictional African home of Marvel's Black Panther. Only, it's not: as the wall text explains, this picture is an abstract painting composed of thousands of acrylic paint-tiles, or tesserae, that create an abstract composition which only appears to be a city seen from above.
The late American artist Jack Whitten created Atopolis: For Édouard Glissant in 2014. It is the final piece in 'Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017', recently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art and currently at the Met Breuer in New York. As its subtitle suggests, Odyssey emphasizes the three-dimensional output of the artist since 1963. Whitten, who is known more as a painter, created these works privately while vacationing in Crete with his Greek wife. The sculptures in Odyssey are mostly figurative and reflect Whitten's interest in traditional forms. Greek artefacts loaned by the nearby Walters Art Museum and several traditional African pieces from the BMA supplement the exhibition.
Like the ancient Greek and African works that inspired him, Whitten's sculptures are not simply formal explorations; they hold meanings and serve functions beyond their role as art objects. A row of wooden sculptures referred to by the wall text as 'guardians' protects the members of his family; his 'containers' consist of reliquaries with hidden drawers and secret meanings. Many of Whitten's sculptures blend Western and African traditions, such as The Afro American Thunderbolt (1983–84), a dynamic zigzag of black mulberry wreathed with rusty nails, capped at each end with squarish copper plates. The accompanying text explains that this work was created 'for the protection and empowerment of all Black people.' Its blocky, wooden thunderbolt recalls the divine weapon of Zeus, while the embedded nails refer to the nkisi nkondi figures sculpted by central African artists in the 19th and 20th centuries, an example of which stands next to Thunderbolt.
To get a fuller picture of Jack Whitten, it helps to travel beyond Odyssey. After exiting the show, we find ourselves in the museum's Antioch Court, named after the ancient Roman city where its early Christian-era mosaics of animal motifs that line these walls were extracted. The tesserae of Whitten's Atopolis are echoed here. Rounding the corner, you make your way to the museum's contemporary wing, where Whitten's painting, 9.11.01 (2006) is displayed. A dark, cosmological pyramid sits amid swirls of colour. Though technically not part of the exhibition, the work acts as a cultic mirror to the hope and spirit that animates Odyssey, particularly Atopolis.
Whitten, who grew up in the southern US during the Jim Crow period and met Martin Luther King, Jr. in Montgomery, Alabama, travelled widely: he attended art school at the Cooper Union in New York; in the late 1960s he began what would become regular visits to Crete with his wife and daughter; and in 2015, he was awarded the prestigious National Medal of the Arts by President Barack Obama. Whitten passed away this past January at the age of 78. A self-described 'time traveller', Whitten's work has an almost science fictional quality to it, blending the disparate forms and materials of past and present. Perhaps utopia is always out of reach. Odyssey suggests that it's worth striving for anyway.
- Dereck Stafford Mangus is an artist and writer based in Baltimore.
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Canada's Islamophobia Problem is Made Even Worse by its Foreign Policy
byReda Zarrug
On June 6, 2021, four members of the Afzal family were murdered on their evening stroll in the quiet town of London, Ont.
On June 25, 2021, Muhammad Kashif was on a routine walk in Saskatoon's east end when he was stabbed and had his beard cut off by two individuals who asked him 'why he was in this country.'
On June 23, 2021, two visibly Muslim women were attacked while on a walk in Edmonton. One of them had a knife put to her throat and her life threatened, while the other one was beaten unconscious.
These attacks all took place in June 2021, and, unfortunately, this is not an exhaustive list of all the Islamophobic attacks for the month in Canada.
In Canada, acts of Islamophobia have been increasing steadily since the early 2000s. However, in the last few years, this trend seems to be on the rise.
Canada is a country of multiculturalism that promotes the idea of a "cultural mosaic," in stark contrast to "melting-pot" nations, who expect their immigrants to assimilate into the country's "values," or societal norms. Canada is a country known for displaying – and progressively building upon – its liberal values.
So, it begs the question, why are Muslim communities trapped in the blind spot of Canada's "liberal vision"? Why are Muslims constantly being targeted in this so-called environment of inclusivity?
Although this is a complex question that needs to be examined from a variety of vantage points, I believe a large portion of the answer lies in Canada's foreign policy.
Recently, Canada's foreign policy has taken, generally speaking, the same approach toward the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as the U.S. There have been some differences in action (especially with Canada's stance on the U.S.'s invasion of Iraq), however the attitudes toward the region have been similar. This foreign policy position has caused collateral destabilization and destruction through attempts at democratization and the instilling of global "liberal" ideals.
Since 2000, Canada's military has been engaged in several wars within Muslim-majority countries. These include operations in Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria.
The Canadian involvement has been, overwhelmingly, attempting to abolish terrorist groups in these countries, but these military operations have inevitably created a distinction between Canadians and Muslim-Canadians. The public perception of Muslims has been one of blameworthy homogeneity and it has contributed to the decay of the Muslim-Canadian identity.
The herding of Muslims into one monolithic "category" is problematic for the social understanding of the Muslim community, but even more problematic because there emerges an artificial link between terrorism and Islam. This has alienated Muslims, and, more specifically, orthodox Muslims in Canada.
The overarching idea perpetuated by these military missions is an "othering" of Muslims into a category of individuals who don't align with "Canadian values." This idea has been adopted and amplified by right-wing terrorist groups in Canada.
There exists a tension between Canadian conservatism and Muslim orthodoxy, which seems to be an anomaly because there is a general values agreement between conservative Canadians and religious orthodoxy in general.
There is a common understanding among Canadians that moderate Muslims are friends, while those who support political Islamic ideals are problematic. This demonization of orthodox Islam has fuelled the hate that we see being directed at Canadian Muslims across the country. The dress code of orthodox Islam also forces us to examine Islamophobia from a gendered lens more seriously. Women who wear hijab, abaya, burqa or niqab are more likely to be targeted by white terrorism than men. This forces Muslim women to choose between safety and religious freedom in Canada.
A crucial piece of Canadian foreign policy that has drastically affected the way Muslims are viewed has been the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Canadian Muslims who are actively involved in the resistance against the occupation and active killing of Palestinians are also engaged in a resistance against the rhetoric of Islamophobia.
This rhetoric is fuelled by an active decision by Canada to stand alongside the atrocities of Israel through a feeble claim of the right to defence. When the Israeli government indiscriminately attacks Gaza and kills civilians, the Muslim-Canadian response is a plea for morally equitable policy.
Since 2000, 8,166 people have died in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Seven-thousand and sixty-five of these people have been Palestinian, while 1,101 have been Israeli. Hamas's attacks on Israeli citizens have been met appropriately, with a global response of anti-terrorism policy, including the inclusion of Hamas on terror lists across the world.
Israel, however, has killed more civilians, including women and children, than Hamas, yet we have not seen any attempt by the Canadian government to respond equally as drastically as they have to Hamas. In Israel's most recent series of attacks on Gaza, at least 248 civilians were killed.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's response has been to note that "Israel has a right to assure its own security" and a refusal to explicitly denounce the attacks against the Gazan people.
Canadian foreign policy has made Muslim-Canadians feel as if their lives are not equal to the lives of others, while perpetuating the false connection between Islam and terrorism.
The expansion of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is also overlooked, and most of the time jumbled in with the Canadian position on Hamas's atrocious acts against Israeli civilians.
This has an effect that is felt by Muslim-Canadians across the country. Conflict in Muslim-majority countries has become second nature and is now a part of Muslim identity. Canadian foreign policy has made Muslim-Canadians feel as if their lives are not equal to the lives of others, while perpetuating the false connection between Islam and terrorism.
Canadian foreign policy needs to begin incorporating, or at least considering, moral objectivity. Canada's national interest should not be playing a role in the conversation of human rights. The undertaking of global human rights should not be soiled with national intention. Human rights need to be prioritized, regardless of how that effects a country's position on the international stage.
This lack of objective morality has associated violence, conflict, and terrorism with Islam. This shadow has perpetuated anti-Muslim rhetoric and has armed right-wing terrorist groups with the pomposity necessary to increase the frequency of their attacks on Canada's Muslim community.
Canadian foreign policy has played an active role in "othering" Muslim-Canadians. This is not the mosaic we were promised.
Reda Zarrug is an associate editor at iAffairs Canada. He is currently pursuing his MA at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, where his main research interests are conflict analysis and conflict resolution, specifically surrounding the MENA region. Previously, he attended Carleton University and completed a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He is also a public servant working in a strategy capacity with the Government of Canada.
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Mamas Makin' It Work: Helping Keep Pants Dry One Mama at a Time
Written by Melissa Robertson
Finding the right balance between business ownership and motherhood
When it comes to physiotherapy, most people think of recovery after a sports injury or possibly a car accident, but Laura Apps, Registered Physiotherapist, wants to help women heal a body part that is a little more…intimate.
She wants to help us stop peeing our pants. #blessher
Laura knew she wanted to work in the healthcare field from a young age. She was inspired by her mother who was a nurse and then got to experience it firsthand when a series of dance injuries sent her to physiotherapy as part of her recovery.
"I saw what a private physio clinic does and it was very interesting," she said."It seemed like a good fit."
Laura left family and her first position as a physiotherapist behind in Manitoba to follow her future husband to Ontario and soon began seeing clients as a staff physiotherapist in a private clinic, yet motherhood changed the course of her career track.
"Motherhood is probably what pushed me a little bit further into the women's health end of things. I realized the importance of knowing that your body may not return right back to normal afterwards," she said. "Within that clinic I was treating lots of sports injuries, as well as taking courses for women's health. I always had an interest in [pelvic floor issues] but I never had a chance to take education for it."
After the birth of her second daughter, Violet, Laura decided to rent her own space within the private clinic and only focus on women's health issues. As her client base grew, she knew she had to make a decision. She wasn't willing to work five days a week but she saw a greater need for her services, so she hired a second physiotherapist to join her.
She wasn't willing to work five days a week but she saw a greater need for her services, so she hired a second physiotherapist to join her.
"It very quickly became evident that we needed more space," she said.
The next step was to open her own clinic.
"I wasn't starting from scratch, so it wasn't so daunting. I already had a client base. I already had referral sources," she said. "I think I bought clinic beds first and then I realized, I guess we are doing this. I should probably find the space!"
While Laura works hard to help women treat and prevent injury to their pelvic floors, she's never been interested in working 90-hour work weeks. Laura said she has to be conscious of not allowing running her own business to take over her life. Her clinic has limited hours and is not open Friday through Sunday.
"Everybody here is a mother or about to be a mother and we are all in the same boat in terms of other responsibilities and what we want our lives to look like. It's nice having everybody on the same page in terms of that."
I think striving for the business I envision and the home life and downtime I desire will continue to be a challenge.
Laura was able to make the transition to business owner successful by picking the brain of many colleagues who had been in her shoes, and learning from their accomplishments and challenges.
"Finding the balance between business owner, physiotherapist, mother and wife has been an ongoing and evolving challenge over the past five years, and even more so now that I have my own clinic," she said. "I think striving for the business I envision and the home life and downtime I desire will continue to be a challenge. I think it is possible, but there will be give and take from all sides, and I know I could not do it alone."
Do you know a mama who is making it work? Let us know in the comments and you might just see them in a future blog!
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Melissa Robertson divides her time between her three daughters and writing for the Parent Life Network. In her 'spare time' she loves to be a total control freak while attempting to do crafts with her girls.
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Darmstadt, Germany and Puteaux, France, April 19, 2018 – R-Biopharm, a globally active life science company, and ELITechGroup, a leading company in sample-to-result molecular diagnostics, announced today a worldwide agreement to strengthen their positions in molecular infectious disease testing. Under this agreement, R-Biopharm and ELITechGroup will cooperate in the development, production and marketing of real-time PCR reagents.
"We are very pleased to have won R-Biopharm as a partner to expand our molecular diagnostics portfolio", said Christoph Gauer, CEO of ELITechGroup. "This collaboration will contribute to complete the menu of our sample-to-result system ELITe InGenius®. We will increase the overall number of CE-IVD assays from currently 23 to 33 by the end of 2018 making ELITe InGenius® the system with the broadest CE-IVD menu on the market".
Since 1988, R-Biopharm has been developing innovative products characterized by top quality, reliability and efficiency. A strong sense of responsibility, long-standing experience and a network of more than 20 affiliated companies and subsidiaries in Europe, the US, Brazil, Latin America, China, India and Australia, as well as more than 120 distribution partners, make R-Biopharm a prime partner for clients from retail, industry and public institutions looking for answers and solutions for current diagnostic and analytical challenges.
For more information contact R-Biopharm AG (info@r-biopharm.de) or visit our website: www.r-biopharm.com.
ELITechGroup, headquartered in Paris, is a global leader in targeted segments of the In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) market. With R&D and manufacturing facilities in Europe as well as the United States, ELITechGroup focuses on specific segments in clinical chemistry and microbiology and has a strong presence in molecular diagnostics. The company has a broad array of proven PCR assays currently in use across the world for in vitro diagnostic analysis on open systems. These assays take advantage of ELITechGroup' s intellectual property portfolio which includes the Minor Groove Binder (MGB), modified bases, and novel fluorophores. Recently, ELITechGroup launched ELITe Ingenius®, a sample-to-result molecular diagnostics system.
ELITe InGenius is the first sample-to-result solution introduced with a quantitative CE-IVD core menu for transplant pathogen monitoring. ELITe InGenius is an ease-of-use and highly flexible solution integrating all the steps of molecular diagnostics: extraction, amplification and result interpretation, in a single platform with best-in-class and proven technologies for nucleic acid extraction and RT-PCR amplification. Built on ELITechGroup expertise to design, optimize and provide efficient PCR solutions for in vitro diagnostic laboratories, the system was CE-IVD marked for IVD applications in Europe in August 2015 and is also available in the US as Laboratory Use Equipment.
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What is kink-shaming?
May 31, 2018 May 29, 2018 r. r. campbell
There's this idea out there that we live in an age of sexual liberation—at least when compared to the past—but one argument that often suggests the contrary is one related to kink-shaming.
But what does that mean, why is it important, and how does it figure into Accounting for it All?
Namely, kink-shaming is embodied in attitudes that frown upon or openly advocate against the sexual predilections of consenting adults.
To take this one step further, let's explore the origins of kink-shaming in the modern dialogue.
There's a tendency among humans—or at least among those in the culture that controls prevailing narratives where I exist—to fear the unknown, to treat "the other" with mistrust. When it comes to something so intimate as a sexual experience with another human being (or one's self), then, it could be easy to understand one's wariness in engaging with that "other," which is, in this case, a sex act with which one isn't readily familiar.
Beyond this tendency, it's possible that in an age where dialogue about sex is more easily had than in the past, conversations regarding sex have become more frank, which has led to the detailing of sexual experiences that prevailing narratives would ordinarily regard as beyond the norm. With this increased exposure in a society that has a proclivity for other-ing, perhaps it's no wonder many discussions surrounding various sex acts reinforce the idea that they're meant to be regarded with disdain.
Now before an armada of rightfully concerned readers sails onto this page to stick flags in the sand that read, "What about X?!" and "So you support Y?!" let's be clear: our definition of kink-shaming above grounds itself in the notion that the parties involved are consenting adults, which I emphasize again here for obvious reasons.
Keeping in line with one of this blog's guiding philosophies—that consenting adults ought to maintain autonomy over their own sexual affairs—it perhaps comes as no surprise then that we'll explore kink-shaming, too, through this lens. Simply put, why shame others for something they enjoy to do on their own or with other consenting adults?
That's not to say all things are right for all people, or that any one person should feel they must try something in order to truly know what's right for them. On the contrary, one ought to only do what one is comfortable with, and it's possible to do so without shaming someone else for something in which they might have an interest.
What about Accounting for it All?
This very idea plays into Accounting for it All when an ally of the story's protagonist finds her opportunities in porn drying up, so to speak. No longer are producers as interested in having her take part in scenes similar to those she's already done, but there are some producers who are willing to have her participate in scenes that feature sex acts that are not of interest to her.
So how does this character navigate the situation? Is it possible for her to turn down the opportunities without kink-shaming?
It is, and the answer is simpler than you might think: it's a simple "no." She expresses that it's simply not for her and moves on without denigrating the producer, would-be partner for the scene, or would-be consumers for their interests.
Likewise, in our own lives we don't have to encourage, endorse, or participate in any given sex act, but that doesn't mean we have to frown upon consenting adults who have given affirmative consent to do so in order to establish our own feelings on the matter.
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11 May 2018 James Porteous
What is the importance of the Golan Heights
Israel has vowed that the Golan will remain permanently under its control [Getty]
10 May 2018 | Florence Dixon | The New Arab
What was long Israel's quietest border has witnessed an escalating series of flare-ups over past months. The latest of which, a barrage of Iranian rockets sparking a colossal Israeli response against Iranian military positions in Syria, has led some to fear all-out war between Israel and its Assad-allied adversaries stationed in the war-torn country, and vying for control of the Middle East.
However the full significance behind the contentious patch of Israeli-occupied Syrian territory is not always entirely understood. Despite spanning an area of only 1,800 km², the Golan represents an area of not only strategic benefit, but of symbolic value and powerful influence, and is quickly becoming the centrepoint of the Syrian war.
The Golan Heights, constituting the southwesterly tip of Syria, was invaded and occupied by neighbouring Israel in the later stages of the 1967 war, during which Israel also took the West Bank, Gaza and the Sinai.
More or less immediately after the Golan Heights fell under Israeli control, settlers began to move in as the vast majority of the 130,000-strong population, including 17,000 Palestinian refugees, fled. The Golan Heights are now home to over 30 Israeli settlements.
Syria attempted to recover the Golan during the 1973 war, but their surprise assault on Israeli forces was rebuffed. The two countries signed a ceasefire in 1974, and since then UN observers have been stationed along the armistice line.
Despite this, Israel annexed the territory completely in 1981, but the international community still recognise the Golan as Syrian land.
Binyamin Netanyahu has recently declared that Israel will never return the Golan Heights.
Who lives there?
The scenic rocky plateau is far less populated now due to an exodus of Syrians in the wake of the 1967 invasion.
Before the war, the Golan was home to approximately 130,000 Syrian Arabs, who left in droves in the wake of the violence of the 1967 war.
Israel demolished most homes and villages in the Golan to make way for the new settlements in the enclave.
Now only 25,000 Arabs remain, most of whom belong to the Druze community – an Arabic-speaking sect who practise an offshoot of Ismaili Islam and mostly pledge allegiance to Syria, rather than the Israeli occupiers.
The Israeli settler population in the Golan sits at around 20,000.
Strategic importance
The elevated plateau of the Golan, from which the Syrian capital Damascus can be seen, has always made it an important military observation point, and allows border-conscious Israel to keep a constant eye on its neighbours.
Its power as a buffer area from hostile neighbours is however its prime function. But Israel is not the only nation to understand the strategic significance of the border territory.
"Israel regards the Golan Heights, which it occupied from Syria back in 1967, as a northern buffer zone, separating Israel proper from Syria,"
"What Israel tries to do is to keep hostile elements out of there, not letting them take advantage of the chaos in Syria and turn the Golan into a new front with Israel," Bregman adds.
Taking advantage of war-torn and fractious Syria is exactly what Iran is trying to do, Bregman adds, exactly as it did with Lebanon during its civil war.
In fact, the Golan's proximity to southern Lebanon, the heartland of the Iran-backed paramilitary group Hizballah, has heightened Israeli fears that the militant group may also get involved in fighting.
As the Syrian war complicates and intensifies, Israel has felt the need to extend its Golan buffer zone, particularly in response to Hizballah in Syria making small gains nearing the territory.
In order to do this, Israel too has been establishing an army of proxies. For years now, it has been funding, arming and giving medical assistance to at least seven rebel groups in southern Syria to create what it calls a "border force" of protection.
However with both Hizballah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards "so uncomfortably close to Israel, it is unlikely to accept their continued presence," says Reinoud Leenders of KCL.
This relatively new double threat, Leenders adds, threatens to upset Israel's decades-long dominance over Syria at the border, and its dangerous unpredictability "could prompt any of the protagonists to take preemptive action."
Latest escalations
Tit-for-tat attacks in the Golan, despite being notably on the rise in recent months, date back to far before the occupation.
The pattern of provocation and retaliation play into a pattern of Israeli hyper-alertness and creeping Iranian aggression as they compete to spread influence across Syria's chaotic battlefields.
The latest escalation therefore, does not come as a big surprise to many.
"Israel's recent bombing of Syria is a standard modus operandi of the Israeli security establishment," says Laleh Khalili, Professor of Middle Eastern Politics at SOAS.
"It creates a constant state of military alertness. This constant state of military alertness is necessary for keeping the country perpetually militarised, the Israeli population perpetually docile, and the Israeli security establishment constantly fed and watered with armaments from every country that chooses to sell to them."
This aggressive alertness is a common tactic of settler-colonial states, "not too different frankly than Apartheid South Africa and its neighbours," adds Khalili.
"Moshe Dayan once explained this politics of provocation. After 1948 and before annexation of Golan, the area was demilitarised, but Israel liked to keep provoking Syria.
"We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn't possible to do anything in the demilitarised area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn't shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance farther, until in the end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that's how it was.
"There really is not much more rationality behind it. Israel's provocations are about symbolism and about maintaining internal control and the militarist system in place."
Despite the international community's calls for calm, mediation efforts are stunted.
The intensity of Israel's bombardment of Syria – the biggest Israeli strike on its neighbour in four decades – may have destroyed Iranian military infrastructure but will have only stoked its need to retaliate, possibly with the help of their Lebanese allies.
"We are at a most sensitive junction at the moment," says Bregman. "The Israelis hit the Iranians very hard. The current 'mini crisis' could well deteriorate into a war of attrition between Israel and Iran on the Golan."
"The Iranians may even resort to their 'heavy' weapons – that is Hizballah in Lebanon – instructing it to open fire too."
Despite a day of calm on what was once a quiet border territory, history tells us that the next escalation – possibly the biggest one yet – is only a matter of time away.
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Francesco Guicciardini - writer and diplomat
Friend of Machiavelli among first to record history in context
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The historian and statesman Francesco Guicciardini, best known for writing Storia d'Italia, a book that came to be regarded as a classic history of Italy, was born on this day in 1483 in Florence.
Along with his contemporary Niccolò Machiavelli, Guicciardini is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance.
Guicciardini was an adviser and confidant to three popes, the governor of several central Italian states, ambassador, administrator and military captain. He had a long association with the Medici family, rulers of Florence.
Storia d'Italia - originally titled 'La Historia di Italia' - was notable for Guicciardini's skilful analysis of interrelating political movements in different states and his ability to set in context and with objectivity events in which sometimes he was a direct participant.
Born into a prominent Florentine family who were influential in politics and long-standing supporters of the Medici, Giucciardini was educated in the classics before being sent to study law at a number of universities, including Padua, Ferrara and Pisa.
The title page from Guicciardini's
work in an early printed version
He was interested in pursuing a career in the priesthood but his father, Piero, considered the church to have become decadent, with too many of the clergy drawn to it because of the potential for wealth and power.
Consequently, after graduating in civil law, Guicciardini set up a successful legal practice, finding clients within the leading Florentine families and merchant organisations.
He earned his first political appointment, in the highly prestigious role of Florence's ambassador to Spain, at the age of just 28.
After the restoration of the Medici to power in Florence in 1512, following a period in exile, Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici was elevated to the papacy as Leo X. Guicciardini returned to Florence and was appointed by Leo X as governor of Modena.
This began a period of service to the popes that lasted until 1534.
For a time he was a military strategist, although his reputation was damaged with the Sack of Rome by troops of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, in 1527, when the papal forces of Pope Clement VII, ultimately under the command of Guicciardini, were unable to resist.
Soon afterwards, Guicciardini returned to Florence only to find that the Medici had been expelled and a new republic established. Because of his close ties to the Medici, Guicciardini was declared a rebel and had his property confiscated. He left Florence in 1529.
The statue of Guicciardini
at the Uffizi Gallery
The republic collapsed a year later and, under the command of Clement VII, Guicciardini was given the task of punishing the Florentine citizens for their resistance to the Medici.
His next assignment was the governorship of Bologna, the most important city in the northern Papal States. He resigned after the death of Clement VII in 1534 and returned to Florence, where he was hired to advise the new duke, Alessandro de' Medici.
Alessandro was assassinated in 1537, after which Guicciardini aligned himself with Cosimo I de' Medici, then only 17 and new to the political system. It was not long, however, before he retired to his villa in Arcetri, just outside Florence, where he spent his last years working on Storia d'Italia. He died there in 1540.
Guicciardini had been friends with Machiavelli. Guicciardini was from a higher social background, but the two are said to have established a rapport because of mutual regard for each other's intellect. They did not always agree but their discussion of political ideas influenced each other's work.
The Villa Ravà in Arcetri, where Guicciardini retired
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Arcetri, located in the hills south of the centre of Florence beyond the Arno river, was a village in the time of Guicciardini. It is famous also as the place in which the astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei was kept under house arrest by the Roman Inquisition and as the home of the Arcetri Observatory. Guicciardini is said to have lived in a house called Villa Ravà while he was writing his Storia d'Italia.
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Palazzo Guicciardini is now an hotel
The 15th-century Palazzo Guicciardini, the family's home in Via Santo Spirito in Florence, situated just across the street from a house once owned by Niccolò Machiavelli and a short walk from the Uffizi Gallery and the Ponte Vecchio, is now a beautifully appointed hotel, comprising just eight rooms, many of which feature frescoed walls and ceilings by the Mannerist painter Bernardo Poccetti, whose work can be found in several churches and palaces in the city, including the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella. There is a statue of Guicciardini in the Uffizi.
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How the name of Machiavelli became associated with political cunning
The founding of the Medici dynasty
Leo X - the Medici Pope who supported the arts
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1853: The opera La Traviata is performed in public for the first time
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THE BODY PARTS IN THE LIBRARY
The Library Ladies, a new detective duo, make their first appearance in The Body Parts in the Library, now available for sale on Amazon.
Set in an English country village, this first Library Ladies mystery is a cosy crime novel by Val Culley, the author of Death in the High City and The Shooting in Sorrento.
Sallie and Jo are both Library Assistants who have recently been made redundant. A group of volunteers have taken over the running of the village library where they used to work and when one of them is the victim of a prank, the Library Ladies are immediately suspected and find themselves shunned by most of the village.
Determined to clear their names, Sallie and Jo try to find out who was really responsible. But after more bizarre events occur, a grim discovery is made in the library. The Library Ladies decide to conduct their own investigation to make sure the culprit is exposed and life in the peaceful south Yorkshire village of Upper Mickle can return to normal.
The Body Parts in the Library is available from Amazon as a Kindle e-book or a paperback.
THE SHOOTING IN SORRENTO
The beautiful southern Italian resort of Sorrento is the setting for The Shooting in Sorrento, a crime novel by Val Culley.
Believed to be the first British crime novel to be set in the Italian seaside town, The Shooting in Sorrento is the second Butler and Bartorelli mystery, following on from Death in the High City, which was set in Bergamo in Lombardy in northern Italy.
Available from Amazon, The Shooting in Sorrento will appeal to readers who enjoy the cosy crime genre, or perhaps have spent time on holiday in Sorrento.
Journalist Kate Butler and her partner Steve Bartorelli, a retired Detective Chief Inspector, are in Sorrento for the wedding of one of Steve's Italian relatives.
When tragedy strikes an English family staying at their hotel, Kate feels she has to help them.
She joins forces with another visitor to Sorrento to investigate for herself when it becomes clear the Italian police are looking no further than the English family in order to solve the crime.
The Shooting in Sorrento is available from Amazon as a Kindle e-book or a paperback.
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PNG nominated in North York Great Front Gardens contest!
Parkview Neighbourhood Garden has been nominated as one of the great front gardens in North York in this annual contest conducted by the North York Garden Club. As far as we know, this is the first time that a vegetable garden has been nominated. The winner will be announced on September 12, but it is an honour just to be nominated!