The Faculty Lounge

The Faculty Lounge

Welcome to The Faculty Lounge, the PICT journal where a rotating cast of our faculty members and contributors pursue their ongoing obsessions as thinkers, researchers, and activists.

Poetry
Paris

Brotherhood and Jihad

Brotherhood and Jihad by Aşık Mahzuni Şerif (Turkish original – Ankara, Turkey)by David Selim Sayers and Evrim Emir-Sayers (English translation – Paris, France) THIS translation

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Music
Paris

Le Quatuor Borodine en tournée

Le Quatuor Borodine en tournée (English version here) par Valentin Berlinsky (Moscou, Union soviétique – version originale russe)par Maria Matalaev (Paris, France – traduction française,

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Environment
Paris

News from 2047

Illustration by Rick Guidice, Ames Research Center, NASA (mid-1970s) News from 2047 by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese (Cambridge, USA) EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was

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Interview
Paris

Kleine Plauderei unter Freunden

Bild aus „The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque“ von Thomas Rowlandson und William Combe (1813) „Kleine Plauderei unter Freunden“: Unzeitgemäße Gedanken

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Poetry
Paris

The Messenger

The Messenger by Heijan (Turkish original – Bağcılar, Turkey)by David Selim Sayers and Evrim Emir-Sayers (English translation – Paris, France) THIS translation is of the

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Poetry
Paris

Thirty-Three Bullets

Thirty-Three Bullets by Ahmed Arif (Turkish original – Ankara, Turkey)by David Selim Sayers and Evrim Emir-Sayers (English translation – Paris, France) THIS translation is of

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Poetry
Paris

The Moon Is Dark

The Moon Is Dark by Ahmed Arif (Turkish original – Ankara, Turkey)by David Selim Sayers and Evrim Emir-Sayers (English translation – Paris, France) THIS translation

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Poetry
Paris

Dark Earth

Dark Earth by Aşık Veysel (Turkish original – Sivas, Turkey)by David Selim Sayers and Evrim Emir-Sayers (English translation – Paris, France) THIS translation is of

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