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Eid Mubarak to All, and A Hope Against Suffering

Eid Mubarak. Eid-ul Adha was celebrated with quiet contemplation in New York yesterday. Today Bangladesh and much of the Muslim world celebrates the faith of the patriarch Abraham.

Unfortunately as millions of Bangladeshi’s rushed to make their way back home for Eid celebration, tragedy has struck again.   News reports show that more than 32 people have died when a ferry sank in Bhola, a coastal town more than 180 south of Dhaka.  The ferry is reported to have been carrying at least 1500 people, more than 3 times the registered limit on passenger capacity.

Update: New reports show that at least 51 bodies have been recovered.  I am certain the final count has yet to be tallied.

 

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Faheem Haider

Faheem Haider is a political analyst, writer and artist. He holds advanced research degrees in political economy, political theory and the political economy of development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and New York University. He also studied political psychology at Columbia University. During long stints away from his beloved Washington Square Park, he studied peace and conflict resolution and French history and European politics at the American University in Washington DC and the University of Paris, respectively.

Faheem has research expertise in democratic theory and the political economy of democracy in South Asia. In whatever time he has to spare, Faheem paints, writes, and edits his own blog on the photographic image and its relationship to the political narrative of fascist, liberal and progressivist art.

That work and associated writing can be found at the following link: http://blackandwhiteandthings.wordpress.com