Photo by Kawan Nahaee Both a poet and novelist in Kurdish and Persian, Kawan Nahaee has a significant audience on social media, where the poems he posts often engage with current events. This set of poems, like many of Nahaee’s, pair traditional images of eastern Kurdistan, located within the borders of present-day Iran, like the
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People wait in their cars as they line up to collect unemployment forms in Hialeah, Florida. CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images The official unemployment rate fell to 8.4% in August as businesses continued emerging from broad shutdowns imposed early in the coronavirus pandemic, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. That’s the lowest rate since
by Regina Avalos, September 8, 2020 Doc Martin is ended his time on iTV and Acorn TV. The series will end with its 10th season next year. Martin Clunes stars in the series as the lead character. The series has been around for 16 years, according to ITV. Production on the new season will start
Sonia Patel writes out of her experience as a first-generation Indian-American born in New York and raised in Hawaii, an experience lushly and brilliantly explored in her debut novel, Rani Patel in Full Effect. Rani was a finalist for the Morris Award, received four-starred reviews from trade magazines, and was listed on YALSA’s Best Fiction
The coronavirus pandemic has upended the retail industry and pushed dozens of companies into bankruptcy. But there are still pockets of growth, with a number of retailers looking to open additional stores. Altogether, as of Friday, retailers have announced 7,707 store closures and 3,344 store openings so far this year, according to a tracking by
Deadline.com will be undergoing a bit of work under the hood Tuesday beginning at 2 AM PT, kicking off a window during which we will not be posting content on the site. We will be back up and running at approximately 6:30 AM PT. For the latest news during that stretch, please follow our Twitter
Officials in North Carolina are scrambling to counteract President Donald Trump’s call for residents of the state to attempt to vote twice in the upcoming contest for the White House, issuing a notice on Thursday warning voters that doing so intentionally is a felony. Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board
Exclusive R. Kelly got put in a really bad spot by guards at the Chicago prison where he’s locked up, and then they ignored his concerns of being in danger before he got attacked … according to his legal team. The disgraced singer’s attorneys, Steven Greenberg and Nicole Blank Becker, tell TMZ … a lot
U.S. government debt prices were higher on Tuesday morning, as investors awaited a fresh batch of economic data and a slew of Treasury auctions after the long Labor Day weekend. At around 5:00 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was lower at 0.6968%, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was
Long before Ally Maki appeared in movies and TV shows like Toy Story 4, Cloak & Dagger, and Wrecked, the Japanese American actress was hitting the club. And no, not the high heels, music-blaring, vodka cran kind of club, but actual extracurriculars. “When I was younger, I was totally the club girl, and not the
The Suicide Squad director James Gunn used Idris Elba’s recent birthday to heap praise on the actor, who will feature in the upcoming DC movie as Bloodsport. Gunn took a moment to applaud the actor, not only for his performance in The Suicide Squad, but also for being a damn decent human being. “I rarely
Did Florian come clean about his past? Stacey was on the warpath on Darcey & Stacey Season 1 Episode 4 when it emerged that he knew the woman who he supposedly cheated with. Meanwhile, things took a turn for Darcey when she got close to Georgi, and worried that there was more to this new man than
What Will It Take to Hold Back the Sky? Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . The Pile The sky was lowering slowly, the great blue weight of it,
PUBG Mobile’s highly anticipated update 1.0 is finally here and will be pushed to users today, September 8. The update brings major changes to the game, including the New Erangel map, a new Royale Pass Season that is coming soon, changes to Cheer Park and Training Ground, as well as improvements to Livik. PUBG Corporation
Topsy-turvy: plastic boats floating above and below a levitated liquid layer. (Courtesy: Benjamin Apffel et al./Nature) Physicists in France have made small objects float upside-down on the underside of a layer of viscous liquid levitating in air. Although their apparently gravity-defying demonstration breaks no laws of physics, they say it could shed new light on
The “Fearless Girl” statue stands in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at Wall Street on June 29, 2020 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Stocks futures climbed in overnight trading on Monday after technology shares suffered their worst sell-off in more than five months. Futures on the
When I was a kid growing up in Brattleboro, VT, I had to wait months for a big Hollywood movie to come to town. One of the big year-end holiday movies of 1980 was Paramount’s Robin Williams pic Popeye, but it didn’t come to my town’s Art-Deco historical landmark theater, the Latchis until Easter weekend.
HELSINKI — A Chinese reusable experimental spacecraft released an unknown object before deorbiting Sunday, ending a secretive two-day mission in low Earth orbit. The spacecraft launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert Thursday atop a Long March 2F rocket. Airspace closure notices issued a day earlier provided the only clue to