After considerable thought during this COVID era, I’ve decided that I should update my Blog more regularly, to stay in touch with you all. I have my wonderful Syrian niece, Dara Dandashi, on board, and she’s been working very hard at designing the site. The last time I performed live was November 2019. Since then, …
Farewell To A Saudi Animal Rights Activist In late August, Twitter was awash with grief and disbelief at the gut-wrenching news of the passing of a man known only by the pseudonym Barg ou Ra�d (“Lightning & Thunder”). Reem Kelani says farewell to a popular Saudi animal rights activist whose identity was revealed only after …
Bragging where bragging is due. Yes, I knew Jeremy Hardy, as a fellow performer and a fellow activist. I had the privilege of first getting to know him through listening to BBC Radio 4 in the 1990s. His off-key voice singing the wrong lyrics to the right tune, or the right lyrics to the wrong …
Reem contributed these opening remarks to a panel discussion My parents fled from Palestine in the early 1950s, soon after the establishment of the state of Israel. I was born in Manchester, where my father studied to become a doctor, and I grew up in Kuwait. It was in Kuwait that I learned to be …
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