1966
By Michael Vasquez After World War II, the idea was that there was going to be a cultural cold war and that it was going to be fought between the non-communist left and the – there was no right; the right was discredited by fascism – so the war was actually between the lefts… So, […]
Hiwar
By Michael Vasquez The journal that the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) published in Beirut, Hiwar, was immediately controversial. It was founded in 1962 by a Palestinian Christian modernist poet and translator of TS Eliot – a somewhat perverse figure named Tawfiq Sayigh. Sayigh published many of his poems in his journal, including “A Few Questions […]