Please note that the poems and essays on this site are copyright and may not be reproduced without the author's permission.


Tuesday 20 September 2016

In the mountains of Yemen / Brecht: Angry Daemon Mask / nothing to see here ("a little bit of a wraith, a ghost”)

.

Boys sit on the edge of the roof of their house in the mountains, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen: photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad / Reuters, 31 May 2016



A boy stands on the roof of a pond in the mountains, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen: photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad / Reuters, 2 June 2016


Houses dot the mountainsides in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen: photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad / Reuters, 21 May 2016


  A cable car carries supplies to Dhalamlam Mountain: photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad / Reuters, 20 May 2016
 

A girl sits on the roof of her house on Dhalamlam Mountain: photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad / Reuters, 1 June 2016


People shop at a market in the mountains of Yemen: photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad / Reuters, 3 June 2016


A Yemeni beekeeper checks his beehives in the mountains: photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad / Reuters, 21 May 2016

Bertolt Brecht: Angry Daemon Mask / Die Maske des Bösen

File:Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Dahlem  Berlin Mai 2006  034.jpg

Noh mask ko-tobide, Momoyama period, c. 16th c.: photo by Gryffindor, 2006 (Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin-Dahlem)


On my wall a Japanese carving hangs,
A blackgold lacquered Daemon mask.
Not unsympathetically I observe
The marks of strain upon the veins of the forehead, showing
How strenuous being furious is.


File:Musee de la bible et Terre Sainte  001.JPG

Stone mask, neolithic period, c. 7000 BC: photo by Gryffindor, 2009 (Musée de la Bible et de la Terre Sainte, Paris)
 

An meiner Wand hängt ein japonisches Holzwerk,
Maske eine bösen Dämons, bemalt mit Goldblack.
Mitfühlend sehe ich
Die geschwollenen Stirnadern, andeutend
Wie anstrengend es ist, böse zu sein.

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956): Die Maske des Bösen, 1942: English by TC


File:First aid masks for CPR training.jpg

Masks in showcase of first aid supplies shop, Berlin: photo by Till Krech, 2006

File:Masks of Death.jpg
 
Masks of Death: photo by James Reynolds, 2004

File:Bertolt-Brecht.jpg

Bertolt Brecht: photo by Kolbe, 1948 (Deutsches Bundesarchiv)

nothing to see here ("a little bit of a wraith, a ghost”)


New York bomb suspect's family clashed with New Jersey city over restaurant: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 19 September 2016

Mr. Rahami kept little social media presence that the authorities have been able to locate.

“He’s a little bit of a wraith, a ghost,” a law enforcement official said.

-- New York Times, 19 September 2016


The Rahami family’s restaurant in Elizabeth, N.J. The family had a fractious relationship with neighbors and the police because of the always-open hours the restaurant kept and the rackety customers it attracted: photo by Bryan Anselm for The New York Times, 19 September 2016



The Rahami family’s restaurant in Elizabeth, N.J. The family had a fractious relationship with neighbors and the police because of the always-open hours the restaurant kept and the rackety customers it attracted: photo by Bryan Anselm for The New York Times, 19 September 2016


Ahmad Khan Rahami, the suspect in the Manhattan and New Jersey bombings, was taken into custody after a shootout with the police on Monday in Linden, N.J.: photo by Moshe Weiss,  Associated Press, 19 September 2016



Ahmad Khan Rahami, the suspect in the Manhattan and New Jersey bombings, was taken into custody after a shootout with the police on Monday in Linden, N.J.: photo by Moshe Weiss,  Associated Press, 19 September 2016


Ahmad Khan Rahami splayed out next to a street in Linden, N.J., after he was shot by police officers in a gun battle on Monday morning. He was found sleeping in a doorway of a bar.: photo by Ed Murray/NJ Advance Media for NJcom via The New York Times, 19 September 2016


Ahmad Khan Rahami splayed out next to a street in Linden, N.J., after he was shot by police officers in a gun battle on Monday morning. He was found sleeping in a doorway of a bar.: photo by Ed Murray/NJ Advance Media for NJcom via The New York Times, 19 September 2016



Bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami is wheeled into an ambulance after a shootout in Linden: image via Reuters Pictures  @reuterspictures, 19 September 2016
 
rackety customers 

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives to a press briefing before boarding her campaign plane at the Westchester County airport in White Plains, New York, U.S. September 19, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives to a press briefing before boarding her campaign plane at the Westchester County airport in White Plains, New York: photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP, 19 September 2016

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives to a press briefing before boarding her campaign plane at the Westchester County airport in White Plains, New York, U.S. September 19, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria ,

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives to a press briefing before boarding her campaign plane at the Westchester County airport in White Plains, New York: photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP, 19 September 2016
  
Demonstrators gather in front of a burning car during an opposition rally in Kinshasa

Demonstrators gather in front of a burning car during an opposition rally in Kinshasa: photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP, 19 September 2016

Demonstrators gather in front of a burning car during an opposition rally in Kinshasa

Demonstrators gather in front of a burning car during an opposition rally in Kinshasa: photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP, 19 September 2016


DRCONGO - Demonstrators gather in front of a burning car during an opposition rally in Kinshasa. By #@edusoteras #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 September 


Congolese protesters in Kinshasa, the capital, on Monday. They are calling on President Joseph Kabila to abide by term limits and step down.: photo by Kenny Katombe/Reuters, 19 September 2016


Congolese protesters in Kinshasa, the capital, on Monday. They are calling on President Joseph Kabila to abide by term limits and step down.: photo by Kenny Katombe/Reuters, 19 September 2016


A broken billboard showing Mr. Kabila’s face on Monday. Deadly political protests have shut down Kinshasa.: photo by Eduardo Soteras/Agence France-Presse, 19 September 2016



A broken billboard showing Mr. Kabila’s face on Monday. Deadly political protests have shut down Kinshasa.: photo by Eduardo Soteras/Agence France-Presse, 19 September 2016

Artist belonging to Nepalese ethnic-based Madhesh political parties acts as an injured activist while protesting to mark the Nepal's first constitution day in Kathmandu, Nepal, 19 September 2016. Hundreds of members of Ethnic Madhesi political parties and related artists protest against the new constitution, which is celebrating by the government side on 19 September 2016. Madhesh based political parties say that this new constitution will not represent their demands which obstructs more political representation for ethnic minorities in the nation's parliament.  EPA/NARENDRA SHRESTHA

Artist belonging to Nepalese ethnic-based Madhesh political parties acts as an injured activist while protesting to mark the Nepal’s first constitution day in Kathmandu, Nepal: photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA, 19 September 2016

Artist belonging to Nepalese ethnic-based Madhesh political parties acts as an injured activist while protesting to mark the Nepal's first constitution day in Kathmandu, Nepal, 19 September 2016. Hundreds of members of Ethnic Madhesi political parties and related artists protest against the new constitution, which is celebrating by the government side on 19 September 2016. Madhesh based political parties say that this new constitution will not represent their demands which obstructs more political representation for ethnic minorities in the nation's parliament.  EPA/NARENDRA SHRESTHA .

Artist belonging to Nepalese ethnic-based Madhesh political parties acts as an injured activist while protesting to mark the Nepal’s first constitution day in Kathmandu, Nepal: photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA, 19 September 2016


INDIA - A paramilitary trooper stands guard during a curfew in the Lal Chowk area in Srinagar. By @TauseefMUSTAFA: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 September 2016


 SYRIA - Women walk in between destroyed buildings in gov. held Jouret al-Shiah neighbourhood of Homs. By Louai Beshara: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 September 2016


JORDAN - Funeral in Karak of Jordanian man who try to stab an Israeli policeman in Jerusalem. By Khalil Mazraawi
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 September 2016


Rahela Sidiqi, a trustee of Women for Refugee Women and originally from Afghanistan, poses for a photograph among lifejackets that have been used by refugees to cross the sea to Europe as they are laid out in Parliament Square
Rahela Sidiqi, a trustee of Women for Refugee Women and originally from Afghanistan, poses for a photograph among lifejackets that have been used by refugees to cross the sea to Europe as they are laid out in Parliament Square, London today: photo by Carl Court, 19 September 2016

Rahela Sidiqi, a trustee of Women for Refugee Women and originally from Afghanistan, poses for a photograph among lifejackets that have been used by refugees to cross the sea to Europe as they are laid out in Parliament Square  

Rahela Sidiqi, a trustee of Women for Refugee Women and originally from Afghanistan, poses for a photograph among lifejackets that have been used by refugees to cross the sea to Europe as they are laid out in Parliament Square, London today: photo by Carl Court, 19 September 2016


UK - Photocall in London to highlight number of refugees who died trying to reach Europe since 2015. By @lealolivas: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 September 2016

 
Aid is seen strewn across the floor in the town of Orum al-Kubra on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Septmber 20, 2016, the morning after a convoy delivering aid was hit by a deadly air strike. The UN said at least 18 trucks in the 31-vehicle convoy were destroyed en route to deliver humanitarian assistance to the hard-to-reach town.  / AFP PHOTO / Omar haj kadourOMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP/Getty Images

Aid is seen strewn across the floor in the town of Orum al-Kubra on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday after a convoy delivering aid was hit by a deadly air strike on Monday. The UN said at least 18 trucks in the 31-vehicle convoy were destroyed en route to deliver humanitarian assistance to the hard-to-reach town: photo by Omar Haj Kadour/AFP, 20 September  2016

Aid is seen strewn across the floor in the town of Orum al-Kubra on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Septmber 20, 2016, the morning after a convoy delivering aid was hit by a deadly air strike. The UN said at least 18 trucks in the 31-vehicle convoy were destroyed en route to deliver humanitarian assistance to the hard-to-reach town.  / AFP PHOTO / Omar haj kadourOMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP/Getty Images

Aid is seen strewn across the floor in the town of Orum al-Kubra on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday after a convoy delivering aid was hit by a deadly air strike on Monday. The UN said at least 18 trucks in the 31-vehicle convoy were destroyed en route to deliver humanitarian assistance to the hard-to-reach town: photo by Omar Haj Kadour/AFP, 20 September 2016

This picture taken on September 19, 2016 shows people onboard fishing boats heading out to sea in order to catch crabs, in Xianrendao in China's northeastern Liaoning province.
 
Fishing boats head out to sea in order to catch crabs, in Xianrendao in China's northeastern Liaoning province: photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP, 20 September 2016
 
This picture taken on September 19, 2016 shows people onboard fishing boats heading out to sea in order to catch crabs, in Xianrendao in China's northeastern Liaoning province.

Fishing boats head out to sea in order to catch crabs, in Xianrendao in China's northeastern Liaoning province: photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP, 20 September 2016

1 comment: