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Explaining the Extraordinary Success of an Ordinary High School

March 14, 2019March 14, 2019 James James Madison High School, Nobel Prize

James Madison High School in the Marine Park neighborhood of Brooklyn boasts an unusual number of highly successful graduates. Among

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Syrian Poet Adonis to Read at “Yâ€

October 19, 2010October 18, 2010 Shari Adonis, Ali Ahmad Said Esber, Arabic, Nobel Prize, poetry

Adonis is a controversial figure in Islamic countries due to his staunch secularism, and perhaps even more so because of his revolutionary use of the Arabic language in his poems.