Wat de boer niet kent, dat lust-ie in dit geval wel!

Elvi is vanuit Rotterdam op weg naar de Noordoostpolder om haar prins op de witte trekker te ontmoeten, als ze met haar auto komt vast te zitten in de modder vanwege een niet-zo-galante tractorbestuurder. Wanneer de tegenligger in kwestie haar ziet, blijkt hij toch ridderlijker dan gedacht...

'De boer die ze niet kent' is een ultrakort verhaal van Emma Anna, Lisanne Stam en Renée Olsthoorn, geschreven op het April Books Event op 6 april 2024.

Vanwege de scheiding van kerk en staat werd in de negentiende eeuw in openbare universiteiten kerkelijke theologie vervangen door godsdienstfilosofie. Als venster op het denken over geloven gebruikt Willem B. Drees,
de laatste hoogleraar godsdienstwijsbegeerte in Leiden, werk van zijn voorgangers. In de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw dachten zij houvast te kunnen vinden in het redelijk denken, in kennis van de godsdiensten of hun eigen geloof. Na de Eerste Wereldoorlog wordt geloof
gezien als een keuze voor vertrouwen op de zin van het Geheel. Recenter zien we agnostische terughoudendheid die religieus en wetenschappelijk wordt gemotiveerd. Een geladen zwijgen.

De Haan, from dune region to residential area. Belgium

Wie nu het nieuws over Iran volgt, kan zich nauwelijks voorstellen dat de relaties tussen Nederland en Iran tot 1979 uitstekend waren. Perzië werd gezien als een mythisch land met een eeuwenoude beschaving en sjah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi als visionair en hervormer. Het Nederlandse koningshuis kwam graag bij hem over de vloer en Nederlandse bedrijven deden goede zaken in Iran.



Toen in de jaren zeventig meer bekend werd over de onderdrukking in Iran, keerde het Nederlandse publiek zich tegen de sjah. De regering stak echter de kop in het zand en zag de Iraanse Revolutie niet aankomen.

In haar Gouden Eeuw nam Antwerpen de rol over van Brugge als handelscentrum van West-Europa. Antwerpen groeide daarbij uit van een middelgrote Brabantse stad tot de onbetwiste metropool van de Lage Landen met niet minder dan 100.000 inwoners. Over de impact van deze economische en demografische groei op het stadsbestuur was tot nu toe weinig bekend en dat terwijl Antwerpen een interessante en uitzonderlijke casus is. Terwijl in vergelijkbare handelsmetropolen - zoals vijftiende-eeuws Brugge, zestiende-eeuw Lyon of zeventiende-eeuws Amsterdam - het stadsbestuur steeds meer werd bevolkt door handelaars, was dat in Antwerpen niet het geval.
Macht in de Metropool reconstrueert wie er tussen 1400 en 1550 dan wel in het Antwerpse stadsbestuur zat als schepen of burgemeester, wat hun profiel was en hoe dit evolueerde door de tijd heen. Ook de vastgoedinvesteringen van deze groep en haar relatie met verschillende sleutelgroepen in de samenleving - de ambachten, de adel en het centraal bestuur - worden in kaart gebracht. Lees meer Lees minder

Some multiple-used city churches are neither fully in use by a faith community nor fully allocated to new forms of use, but are shared by both a (protestant) faith community and secular users. By sharing the church building, the diverse users and communities get in touch with each other. Eventual (slight) offenses between them can often be traced back to their respective relationships with the church building. Each church building has a specific history of the use of the building, its own architecture, a specific Protestant community, a chosen legal model and a particular profile for multiple use. Through the multiple use and the restorations, the pre-Reformation Catholic past is tangibly brought back. Those involved realise that they depend on each other in their efforts to keep the church building in good condition. The analysis of the interactions between users concentrates on the tangible aspects of the process of de-churching. Lees meer Lees minder

De Indonesische onafhankelijkheidsoorlog is in Nederland lange tijd aangeduid met versluierende termen als `politionele acties'. In werkelijkheid was het een ware oorlog waarin Nederlandse troepen met moderne wapens de strijd aangingen. De inzet van artillerie, bommenwerpers en scheepsgeschut werd niet geschuwd in het streven de gewapende `opstand' de kop in te drukken. Wat waren de gevolgen van bombardementen en beschietingen met dergelijk grof geschut? In welke gevallen werden deze middelen ingezet en in hoeverre werd gepoogd burgerslachtoffers te voorkomen?


Voor het eerst is op systematische wijze de toepassing van vooral artillerie en luchtstrijdkrachten in de onafhankelijkheidsstrijd onderzocht. Grof geschut biedt zowel statistische overzichten als analyses van gevechten waarbij op grote schaal zware wapens zijn ingezet. Daarbij komt ook de vraag aan de orde hoe de inzet van deze middelen zich verhield tot het geweldsgebruik in het algemeen. Deze studie vormt een onmisbare bijdrage aan onze kennis over de aard en omvang van extreem geweldgebruik door de Nederlandse krijgsmacht in de Indonesische onafhankelijkheidsoorlog. Lees meer Lees minder

Als Rogier op jonge leeftijd naar Drenthe verhuist omdat zijn vader daar directeur van een vakantiepark wordt, ontmoet hij René. Rogier is een slim jochie, lief, zorgzaam en positief. René is een lompe nakomer. Nadat zijn moeder is overleden, wordt hij langzaam vernield door zijn vader en broers, met hun duistere praktijken op hun boomkwekerij.

Ondanks dat René een paar jaar ouder is, komen de jongens in dezelfde klas te zitten. Samen bouwen ze hutten. Samen kijken ze naar Wubbo Ockels. Samen belanden ze in het ziekenhuis. Maar op het moment dat Rogier naar het gymnasium vertrekt, groeien ze verder en verder uit elkaar.

Wanneer Rogier en een klasgenote slachtoffer worden van een brute geweldsuitbarsting van René, lijkt de verwijdering definitief. Toch blijven ze elkaar ook daarna tegenkomen en invloed houden op elkaars levens, en zo dreigt ook Rogier naar beneden gezogen te worden, de duisternis in. Lees meer Lees minder

Een pedofiel houdt een jongen en zijn moeder gevangen. De jongen beraamt een plan om het monster te verslaan. Zal zijn plan om de man om de tuin te leiden slagen, of slaat hij een weg in waarop hij alleen maar meer onheil vindt? Is een jongen wel opgewassen tegen een volwassen man?

Het kortverhaal "Jongen zonder naam" behaalde zilver op De Zilveren Strop van 2022. De Zilveren Strop is de grootste schrijfwedstrijd voor spannende Nederlandstalige kortverhalen en wordt georganiseerd door NBD Biblion en het lezersplatform Hebban.

Dit is een verhaal uit serie De mythosmoorden. De serie bestaat momenteel uit:
- De heraklesmoorden
- De tantalusmoorden (thrillernovelle in het boek Fatale ontmoeting)

Coronagrappen van Fokke & Sukke

In de ecothriller Beproevingen wordt Lara door Sebastian meegevraagd naar Londen om een verdwenen activiste te helpen opsporen. Sebastian wil haar juridische achtergrond en haar gevatte kijk op zaken inzetten om niet alleen de verblijfplaats te achterhalen van de jonge vrouw, maar ook meer te weten te komen over de duistere praktijken die hij en zijn activistenvrienden op het spoor zijn. Lara gaat met hem op onderzoek uit en raakt steeds dieper in de problemen. Ondertussen komt ze in contact met de aantrekkelijke Colin, die bij de recherche werkt. Al snel blijkt dat hij heel wat te verbergen heeft. Er ontspint zich een adembenemende reeks avonturen, waarin Lara probeert de waarheid boven tafel te krijgen. Zal zij erin slagen datgene wat verborgen ligt in de duisternis aan het licht te brengen? En hoever is zij bereid hiervoor te gaan?
Een teaser voor de heerlijk leesbare, wezenlijke en spannende ecothriller Beproevingen van Janine Keijser. Lees meer Lees minder

De hoofdrolspelers van Tussen twee werelden zijn terug in dit korte verhaal van Franco Faggiani. Hoe is het leven ten tijde van het coronavirus in het afgelegen huis in de Dolomieten van vader Leonardo Guerrieri en zijn pleegzoon Martino Rochard?
Wanneer het nieuws van de epidemie hen bereikt, verandert er voor de twee niet zoveel: ze zijn gewend om geïsoleerd te leven, in de bergen aan de rand van het bos, om weinig mensen te zien en om hun dagen in te delen volgens het ritme dat de seizoenen hun opleggen. Tot Leonardo op een dag uit het raam kijkt en een tentje ziet staan. En de volgende dag nog een... Tussen hen: twee onverwachte gasten, Federico en Pietruccio. Twee broers die van plan zijn een ongebruikelijke, maar speciale missie te voltooien.
Een klein gebaar van ons, een mooie leeservaring voor u: geniet nu van het gratis verhaal `De komst van een vreemde lente' van Franco Faggiani. Lees meer Lees minder

Dit is de digitale catalogus c.q. bibliografie met publicaties van Uitgeverij IJmond (Ahvô Braiths). Deze uitgave wordt met enige regelmaat bijgewerkt.

Bisrat Woldemichael Handiso (1983) is an Ethiopian journalist who worked as an editor for different local newspapers. He was one of the founders of the Ethiopian Journalists Forum (EJF), an independent association made up of largely young journalists who advocate for greater press freedom in his country. In this function he ran trainig workshops and discussions on press freedom, visited journalist in prison and hospital and facilitated medical assistance for them. EJF was accused of being an illegal organisation associated with terrorism. Woldemichael Handiso was persecuted by the Ethiopian secret service and decided to save his life by fleeing to Nairobi, Kenya where he has received refugee status.

This essay tells the sad story of the Ethiopian media which is faced - after a spell of press freedom and freedom of speech - with prosecutoin, often based on false accusations. The victims are brave journalists and media publishers who were detained or fled Ehtiopia, so that they can continue reporting about the government's violation of human rights. The author's main message is that a government which doesn't respect media freedom, blocks a country's development in the broadest sense of the term.

A publication of the Eva Tas Foundation.

The Eva Tas Foundation encourages publication and promotion of texts that are, no matter where and no matter how, subject to censorship.
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Dutch economist and diplomat Peter de Haan describes the worrying increase of censorship and self-censorship in the world. A rising number of journalists, bloggers, and writers can't any longer write as they please; some flee their home country, others are tortured, incarcerated, or are even killed. This essay depicts what happened during the past decade regarding freedom of expression and censorship in the world and tells the shocking stories of some of its victims.He demonstrates a negative relationship between censorship and economic development. The more a regime clamps down on freedom of the media, the poorer its economic development. Welfare economics pays attention to the role of culture in society: the promotion of culture adds to the well being of citizens. Peter de Haan recalls that culture also promotes - through its inspirational strength - innovation and a society's economic development. Famous economists, writers, and philosophers have argued that there is also a relationship between freedom - including freedom of expression - and democracy. This booklet also provides a long list of international organizations defending freedom of expression and freedom of the media, including information about what they do and how victims of censorship can benefit from them.
A publication of the Eva Tas Foundation.
The Eva Tas Foundation encourages publication and promotion of texts that are, no matter where and no matter how, subject to censorship. Lees meer Lees minder

Amir Valle (Cuba, 1967) offers a unique analysis of the suppression of freedom of expression in Cuba by Fidel Castro's 'revolutionary' government. From the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 to the 'Raulist Era' of today, he offers a chilling survey of the most significant cases of cultural repression and censorship perpetrated by the longest Communist dictatorship in the world.
From their beginnings in literature and journalism, the author has witnessed first hand the oppressive and painful wounds inflicted by censorship and cultural repression. He is detested by the dictatorship of the Castro brothers for his ethical stance, his intellectual honesty, his knowledge of the reality of political and cultural power in Cuba, and his work as a writer and journalist to reveal the sinister truths Castroism wants to conceal from the world.
A publication of the Eva Tas Foundation.
The Eva Tas Foundation encourages publication and promotion of texts that are, no matter where and no matter how, subject to censorship.
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Press freedom in Turkey is a hot topic. If a (well known) journalist is detained, prosecuted or sacked in Turkey, the news is covered in full in many Western countries. Nevertheless, many articles and reports reveal only a part of what really happens: they tell the story of the journalist, newspaper or TV broadcaster involved, but not that of the underlying mechanisms. No wonder: these are not easy to explain in a paragraph or two, or in two or three minutes. On the one hand, the lack of press freedom in Turkey is an extremely brief story - it doesn't exist - but on the other it reveals a knot of undemocratic laws, feeble journalistic traditions and huge economic and political interests that are hard to entangle. For the first time this booklet takes the covers off the mechanisms, illustrated with examples to render the Turkish media landscape as intelligible as possible. It has been written by the journalist Fréderike Geerdink. She was a correspondent in Turkey from 2006 to 2015, when she was deported by the Turkish authorities for doing her work as a journalist. Over recent decades, dozens of journalists in Turkey have not survived the lack of press freedom in their country. A number of their portraits have been included in this booklet in commemoration of them.
A publication of the Eva Tas Foundation.
The Eva Tas Foundation encourages publication and promotion of texts that are, no matter where and no matter how, subject to censorship. Lees meer Lees minder

'State of Nature' and 'State of exception' have become the only two options for the people of Bangladesh recently, where writers, bloggers and publishers are getting killed by Al-Qaeda affiliates and persecuted by the Government. Empowerment of polarizations such as 'secular' verses 'Islamists' have also empowered the ruling regime and Islamist extremist groups. Severe censorship on all kind of media has suffocated freedom of expression. New public spheres that had emerged in the internet era are also in decline under terror, censorship, intimidation, and curfew.Several bloggers, writers, publishers and activists have become victims of terrorist attacks in Bangladesh, with most of them killed. As a culture of impunity persists, many have been forced to leave the country, and Parvez Alam is one of them. Parvez is a Bangladeshi blogger and writer who has written several books in his own language on history of Islam, secularism in Bangladesh and political Islam. He is also an activist who worked with several social and political platforms until he had to leave Bangladesh in the face of death threats and being featured in several hit lists. In Disappearing Public Spheres he outlines the major events that unfolded in Bangladesh during the recent years and analyses the rise and decline of internet era public spheres in his country. As a close witness, he writes a history of slow death and transformation of heterotopic spaces where once the internet era revolutionaries of his generation had united and expressed themselves. It is also a personal story, and a history of revolutionary utopia coming to an end. It is a history of death and persecution, censorship and autocracy.
A publication of the Eva Tas Foundation.
The Eva Tas Foundation encourages publication and promotion of texts that are, no matter where and no matter how, subject to censorship. Lees meer Lees minder

Free speech (Fri Wortu) is not common in Surinam. Sylvana van den Braak shows how, after the military coup in the 1980s, a period began of censorship and dictatorship. Despite democratic elections, the government is still trying, in his own special way, to influence the media. The business community agrees with it. Besides that the small community of Surinam and the relationships pave the way for self-censorship. The truth can only be heard on the street, where the local language Sranan is spoken. Dutch is the language of government and business, and these are not to be trusted. The journalist can make the difference, but journalism has to go a long way when it comes to inform the people correctly.
A publication of the Eva Tas Foundation.
The Eva Tas Foundation encourages publication and promotion of texts that are, no matter where and no matter how, subject to censorship. Lees meer Lees minder

The Macedonian authorities use very heavy-handed methods to crush criticism and investigations into political corruption. Free expression is under increasing threat. More than half of Macedonia's citizens are scared to openly express their opinions. Journalists are pushed into self-censorship fearing that telephones and emails are monitored.
The case known as `Likvidacija', Macedonian for `Annihilation' gives a breathtaking example of power abuse as on May 2013 the investigating journalist Tomislav Kezharovski (1965) is arrested by special forces and sued for an article he wrote in 2008. Despite the absence of any evidence that he violated any law, Kezharovski was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. After spending five months in jail, in cramped and unsanitary conditions, and without access to medical treatment, he was released into house arrest pending the outcome of his appeal. As in January 2015 his sentence was reduced to two years, he was arrested again to serve the remaining five months. Widespread domestic and international protests, by hundreds of journalists and activists led to Kezharovski's release. This essay describes from experience about the lawlessness of the system and the unimaginable prison conditions in present Macedonia.

A publication of the Eva Tas Foundation.

The Eva Tas Foundation encourages publication and promotion of texts that are, no matter where and no matter how, subject to censorship.
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In the holiday paradise Vietnam, social media are allowed only to provide and exchange personal information. Bloggers and cyberdissidents who dare to question the government's legitimacy or domestic policies are ruthlessly suppressed.
Political blogger Bui Thanh Hieu (1972) nevertheless uses the Internet to criticize politically hot topics, such as Vietnam's territorial claims within China as well as its handling of land disputes with the Catholic Church. In response to this, Hieu was arrested, his computers confiscated. The license for his Internet café in Hanoi was revoked. Hieu persisted however: his blog was being read by up to 15,000 visitors per day. Because of his commitment, he was arrested and detained on numerous occasions. At the invitation of the city of Weimar, Germany, he was finally able to leave the country. There he finished Speaking in Silence. In this short story he laments, with humour and irony, the behaviour of civil servants of the special judicial, administrative and technological strike force, who control online information.

A publication of the Eva Tas Foundation.

The Eva Tas Foundation encourages publication and promotion of texts that are, no matter where and no matter how, subject to censorship.
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In the eyes of the Chinese authorities books are too often Drugs for the Mind. Sofie Sun (1986) chose this remarkable description as the title of her investigation into censorship and literature in the People's Republic of China. She interviewed representatives of three groups of authors who each have their own view about censorship: writers with no official status living and working in the People's Republic of China, writers in exile, and those who are members of the Chinese Writers Association. By telling the stories about these writers, she sketches a portrayal of censorship and self-censorship in the People's Republic of China.

Sofie Sun was born in the People's Republic of China and came to the Netherlands in 2007, where she has lived ever since. She holds a BA and an MA in Dutch literature from Leiden University. She has translated a range of Dutch titles into Chinese. She will soon complete and defend her doctoral dissertation `Dutch literature in Chinese translation, 1961-2010'.

A publication of the Eva Tas Foundation.

The Eva Tas Foundation encourages publication and promotion of texts that are, no matter where and no matter how, subject to censorship.
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Freedom of expression in Honduras has been kidnapped. Those who are afraid of the truth attempt to imprison it in the depths of the earth. Kidnapped seeks to expose the problems for freedom of expression in journalism and literature in Honduras, the forms of censorship that have been introduced to conceal the truth, but also the creativity of Hondurans who refuse to be defeated in the face of this oppressive system.
Kidnapped describes how the Honduran state, responsible for protecting this right, essential for democracy, has both in the past and present placed obstacles in the paths of those who decide to defy censorship, with harmful and even fatal consequences.

The Honduran journalist and human rights defender Dina Meza (1963) is active on the field of freedom of writing in different ways. She is currently President of PEN Honduras, part of PEN International, and director of the pasosdeanimalgrande.com digital newspaper which covers freedom of expression issues and the general human rights
situation in Honduras. Dina Meza received Amnesty International UK's Journalism
Under Threat Award in 2007 and the PEN International/Oxfam Novib Freedom of Expression award in 2014. Also in 2014, she was one of Reporters without Borders' 100 Information Heroes and a nominee for the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards.

A publication of the Eva Tas Foundation.

The Eva Tas Foundation encourages publication and promotion of texts that are, no matter where and no matter how, subject to censorship.
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