International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Through the history, conflicts are always the cause of pain, sorrow and death. Nowadays more are developing for different rationale; colour, religion, race, gender; leaving millions of people to suffer all around the world. Racism has been a hot topic in literature; writers are examining the treatment of various kinds of discrimination as a weapon against hatred and anger.


29 April 2012

Small Cover ImageThe Cleansing of Mohammed
By: Chris McCourt
Published in Sydney, NSW by Fourth Estate, 2012

Gool Mahommed  a young Afghan, returns to Broken Hill, South Wales, Australia from his homeland after five years, he was sent back by his mentor Abdullah , a camel driver and mullah. His dreams were to fit in the Australian-English way of life and owning a submarine shipping line. Alice Mercer born in Broken Hill, meets Mahommed in train trip they are immediately drawn to each other, but the prejudice of others will create tension between them, with the outbreak of WWI in 1914, a story based  loosely on true events showing how seeds of terrorism are sown.
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