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Scheherazade in Baabda Gives Lebanon’s Female Inmates a Voice

by Aline Sara –Lebanon– Rarely does one consider prison a site for entertainment and performing arts. Last spring however, Zeina Daccache – a certified NADT drama therapist and founder of Lebanon’s drama therapy program Catharsis – transformed the 3rd floor

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Society of the Incarcerated: Acknowledging the Voices of America’s Ever-Increasing Prison Population

by Anna Clark – USA – Who talks about prisoners these days? Certainly not the US presidential candidates or most others up for election in 2008, unless it’s in tangential “get tough on crime” rhetoric. In the media, quality coverage

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Posted in Education, FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World

And Justice for All: We Must Reverse Our Zeal to Incarcerate

by Nomi Prins – USA – The movie, Atonement, is a heart-breaking love-story, a historical WWII saga. Without giving away the ending, which must be seen to be adequately felt, it tells the tale of two lovers’ lives irrevocably changed

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