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‘My library was my lifework, and I didn’t know if I, or it, would survive the night’
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‘A moment that changed me: in the bombed-out ruins of an apartment block, I saw a book I’d translated’
‘The sight of my work, torn and singed but still legible, made me realise the importance of translating and protecting stories – so they remain when everything else falls away.’-Amir Mehdi Haghighat
‘In the rubble of a collapsed apartment block, a single image stayed with me: a book I had translated from English to Persian, lying half-buried in dust and ash. Its cover was torn and smudged, its pages curled and singed, but it was still legible. Still speaking.
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Looking Back and Looking Forward
Nurturing Our Inner Fire: Keeping those flames of hope, passion, commitment, and dreams alive, shining light on our journey
Hope Over Despair
We must realise that it is truly possible to change the story of our world from despair to hope, from darkness to light.
…and then breaking through the darkness came the new moon sowing the seeds of hope and renewal
“The night might seem endless, but dawn is surely near, and with it, the promise of light.”- Hafez, the Persian sage, poet and philosopher of love
“Where there is hope… there is life.” - Anne Frank
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love"- Marie-Henri Beyle
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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2025 has been a difficult year. It's time to reset. It’s time to Ring in Hope
We need to cultivate new rhythms of hope if we are to navigate and build a better world
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‘A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.’- Marie-Henri Beyle
“Where there's hope, there's life.”― Anne Frank
N.B. Hearing the bells ringing and me: Any time I hear the sound of the bells ringing it makes me feel nostalgic, reflective, joyful and hopeful...
I recall and remember so fondly the days and weeks after arriving in Oxford on 19 August 1972, when for the first time in my life I heard the sound of the church bells ringing:
- ‘A Christmas Carol’: A timeless tale of redemption, compassion, hope, and transformation
- Embracing the Winter Solstice-The Shortest Day and the Longest Night
- Christmas is the time to Weave a Tapestry of HOPE To Hear the Angels Sing
- The Antidote to Black Friday is to discover the true meaning and purpose of life
- I am a storyteller academic economist and I have a story to tell