{"id":13040,"date":"2023-01-26T13:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/?p=13040"},"modified":"2024-03-06T13:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T17:10:51","slug":"what-strange-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/what-strange-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"What Strange Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Omar El Akkad<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small Island. Another over-filled, Ill-equipped, dilapidated ship had sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. 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