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Basma Alsharif Palestine

Basma Alsharif

Basma Alsharif’s exhibition here centers around A Philistine (2019), a novella written by the artist that tracks a train journey down the historic Haifa–Beirut–Tripoli line that moves backwards through history at each stop. In the middle of the main gallery, a public reading space offers visitors the opportunity to situate…
bubmag
March 24, 2020
UN calls for total ceasefire in Syria to focus on coronavirus Syria

UN calls for total ceasefire in Syria to focus on coronavirus

The United Nations special envoy for Syria has called for an immediate nationwide ceasefire across the war-torn country to enable an "all-out-effort" to combat the coronavirus pandemic.  Geir Pedersen, in a statement, also appealed on humanitarian grounds for "large-scale releases of detainees and abductees" in Syria and access for medical workers to…
bubmag
March 24, 2020
Queen Elizabeth Preparing to Address the Nation as She’s Never Done Before Amid Coronavirus Crisis The Queen

Queen Elizabeth Preparing to Address the Nation as She’s Never Done Before Amid Coronavirus Crisis

Even after reigning for 68 years, Queen Elizabeth is ready to learn new ways of doing things. The 93-year-old monarch is preparing to give a special address amid the coronavirus pandemic, marking only the fourth time she would do so. The last time was when her mother died in 2002.…
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March 24, 2020
As The Virus Changes, So Will Our Enterprise Technology Footprint Privacy Concerns

As The Virus Changes, So Will Our Enterprise Technology Footprint

Let’s assume you have some sort of central IT application managing your accounts, customers, suppliers, products and locations in your organization today. It may be one of your (or the) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. It may also be a bespoke-developed solution using a relational…
bubmag
March 24, 2020
Trump of the Tropics: How COVID-19 is Hitting Brazil’s Economy, Bolsonaro’s Approval Ratings Venezuela

Trump of the Tropics: How COVID-19 is Hitting Brazil’s Economy, Bolsonaro’s Approval Ratings

The Covid-19 outbreak will drastically hit Brazil's workers and the poorest sections of the population, predicts Gustavo Guerreiro, executive editor of the journal World Tensions, explaining how the Bolsonaro government's neoliberal policies may deal a further blow to the president's plummeting popularity.Though the coronavirus continues to spread, prompting states to…
bubmag
March 24, 2020
Tuesday assorted links and non-links Spanish Flu

Tuesday assorted links and non-links

1. Some mask production is being deregulated. 2. “Using country-, subnational-, and individual-level data, we show that Facebook has had a significant and sizable positive impact on citizen protests.” 3. Open source ventilators? 4. Automated contact tracing without giving up privacy?  And explanation. 5. What the SuperForecasters think. 6. A…
bubmag
March 24, 2020