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By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography that he wanted to build a hall in Philadelphia “…the design in building not being to...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. ‘From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the Orient could not do was to represent itself,” Edward...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. ‘Mr. Azzi, I will personally pay for a one way ticket to the Muslim controlled country of your choice. Any one of them. Wanna go?...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. On October 7, Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel that left over one thousand dead, thousands injured, and hundreds captured...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. Some mornings, perhaps out of nostalgia, I reach into my kitchen cupboard and dig out a green-colored mug with which I drink my...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. In November 2008, within hours of Barack Obama becoming president-elect of the United States, the Macedonia Church of God in Christ...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. While T.S. Eliot argued in “The Waste Land,” that “April is the cruelest month ... mixing memory and desire ...” I would argue that...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com “I’m sure you would be welcomed if you returned to one of the Muslim hell hole countries. There is no white privilege and in fact it...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. “...We never turned on the radio – it wasn’t until we got to Exeter and began moving Tamer into his new dorm that we learned of the...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. In Dante’s “Divine Comedy” there is a warning, described as being inscribed above the entrance to Hell, that translates as “Abandon...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. Earlier this summer, in a Seacoast thrift shop I frequent, I began chatting with a young graduate student who was browsing its book...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. ‘I raise my voice not so that I can shout,” Malala Yousafzai said, “but so that those without a voice can be heard.”In awe of her...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. Last week, while I was on the Isles of Shoals, Sinéad O’Connor died.“Police were called at 11:18hrs on Wednesday, 26 July to reports...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com ‘Climate change is hitting us hard now — it’s really awful in the southern states — dangerous in some,” a loved one wrote recently....

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. “And you, my father, there on the sad height,” wrote Dylan Thomas, “Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. ‘What,” Malcolm X once asked, “do you call a Black man with a Ph.D.?”Answer? You call him n****r.High above the bench, on the north...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. ‘A person can only be born in one place,” Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote. “However, he may die several times elsewhere: in...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. ‘Purify My Temple for those who will walk around it ...” the Qur’an instructs humanity. “...they will come unto thee on foot and on...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. Eight months ago I wrote: “For much more than a decade, I have been witnessing walls being built, screens being erected, communities...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. I worry about Riley.I wonder, too, if I should have known more, been more supportive, more appreciative of their courage.Riley, as...