台灣是世界可靠的夥伴及良善力量，我們在伊拉克的愛心也沒有缺席。

外交部再度資助非政府組織 #娜迪亞倡議 (Nadia’s Initiative)，協助修復伊拉克巴錫卡鎮(Bashiqa)的亞茲迪禮拜堂，透過重建當地重要社區中心，讓難民重返家園，以及回復正常生活，預計25,000人因此受惠。

外交部在2020年，也曾透過娜迪亞倡議的協助，捐贈10萬片口罩到伊拉克辛賈爾 (Sinjar)等地區，協助醫護人員及流離失所的民眾防治疫情。

娜迪亞倡議(Nadia's Initiative)由2018年諾貝爾和平獎得主娜迪亞穆拉德(Nadia Murad)於同年創立，主要是協助中東地區流離失所民眾，並倡導為性暴力倖存者提供全面支持的非營利組織。

Last year, at the height of the pandemic, Nadia's Initiative helped distribute 100,000 masks donated by #Taiwan to front-line workers and families in displaced person camps in #Iraq and we’ve continued to work with the non-profit to help vulnerable people and minority groups in the country and to secure #ReligiousFreedom.

MOFA recently provided funding for the restoration of the Sheikh Obaker Temple in #Bashiqa, investing in #Yazidi religious sites to ensure that the ISIS-led Yazidi Genocide that took place just seven years ago does not extinguish the faith of this religious minority! The temple has now reopened to the community!

✨"Star Collectors," acrylic & colored pencil on paper, 48"x48", 2021 (NFS).

I started this huge painting about 2-3 years ago and am now finally finished with it. I worked with the most graciously patient collector on this project to bring this narrative to life. The painting tells the story of two maidens who travel across different galaxies collecting lost or fallen stars. These "star collectors" spend their lifetimes gathering up displaced celestial objects and rehoming them back into the sky.

Limited edition prints of this will be tentatively available later in the year.

對於阿富汗我十分陌生，但對於一樣來自電影工作者的呼喊，我願意為他們發聲。

轉自 Weichen Chou

來自阿富汗女導演薩赫熱·卡里米Sahraa Karimi 的親筆信
A Letter From An Afghan Film Maker to Save Afghanistan from Taliban（The original English text is below）

致世界範圍內所有電影團體和熱愛電影的人們！我叫薩赫熱 · 卡里米Sahraa Karimi，是一名電影導演，目前是 「阿富汗電影」的總導演，這是於 1968 年成立的唯一一家國有電影公司。

我懷著一顆破碎的心給您寫下這封信，並且深深地希望您能夠與我一起保護我的可愛的同胞們，尤其是電影製作者們，不會遭受塔利班的侵害。在過去的數週時間裡，塔利班已經攫取了許多省份的控制權。他們屠殺我們的百姓，他們綁架許多孩子，他們將女孩賣給男人們當作童養媳，他們殺了一名婦女因為她的服飾穿著，他們測量一名婦女的眼睛（筆者猜測此處是指塔利班對穿著罩袍的女性進行測量，除了眼睛的其他身體部位不能暴露，以此判定女性穿著是否合規），他們折磨和殺害一位我們鍾愛的喜劇演員，他們謀殺一位我們的史詩學家，他們是扼殺政府中主管文化與媒體的一把手，他們一直在暗殺與政府有關聯的人，他們在大庭廣眾之下絞死我們的人，他們已經迫使成千上萬的家庭流離失所。

這些家庭從被塔利班佔領的省份逃離之後，目前居住在喀布爾（阿富汗首都）的難民營裡，他們處於不衛生的環境裡面。在難民營裡時有搶劫行為，同時出現嬰兒沒有牛奶喝而天折的情況。這是一場人道主義危機，然而世界對此嗓若寒蟬。我們已經習慣了這種沉默，然而我們清楚這不公平。我們知道，政府拋棄我們的人民的決定是錯誤的，倉促撤軍是對我們人民的背叛，是對阿富汗人為西方贏得冷戰時我們所做的一切的背叛。彼時我們的人民被遺忘，導致了塔利班的黑暗統治，而此刻，在我們國家中特別是年輕一代在隨後的 20 年裡取得巨大成就之後，一切都可能在這種拋棄中再次化為烏有。我們急需你的聲音。

媒體、政府和世界人道主義組織都在保持沉默，彷彿他們與塔利班的「和平協議」是合法的。這從來都不是合法的。塔利班認識到政府給了他們重新掌權上台的信心。在整個談判過程中，塔利班一直在殘忍地對待我們的百姓。我作為一名電影製作者，我在我的國家所努力創作的一切都將毀於一旦。假若塔利班上台，他們將嚴禁所有藝術。我和其他電影製作者們可能成為他們暗殺名單中的下一個人選。他們將會剝奪婦女的權利，我們將會被推到家庭的陰影之中，我們的聲音、我們的表達將被彈壓製到沉默之中。當塔利班掌權的時候，學校將不再會有女孩子。而此時，阿富汗有 900 多萬的女孩在上學。難以想像的是在剛剛陷入塔利班手中的赫拉特省，它是阿富汗第三大城市，在當地大學裡面有將近 50 ％的女學生。全世界幾乎不知道這些難以置信的事實。就在這幾週之內，塔利班摧毀了多所學校，目前有 200 萬的女孩被迫輟學。

我不了解這個世界。我不明白這種沉默。我會留在阿富汗並為我的國家而戰鬥，但是我一個人獨木難支。我需要像你這樣的支持者。請幫助我們，讓這個世界關註一下發生在我們身上的遭遇。請幫助我們，告訴你們國家最重要的媒體此時此刻阿富汗的現狀。在阿富汗之外發出我們的聲音。

如果塔利班佔領喀布爾，我們可能無法上網，也無法進使用任何通訊工具。請讓你們的電影製作者和藝術家們支持我們，發出我們的聲音。這場戰爭不是內戰，這是一場傀儡戰爭，這是一場強加的戰爭，這是美國與塔利班靖和的結果。請盡可能多地在你的媒體上分享這一事實，並請在您的社交媒體上為我們寫些東西。世界不應該對我們置之不理。我們需要你們的支持，需要你們代表阿富汗的婦女、兒童、藝術家和電影製作者發聲。這種支持是我們目前最需要的幫助。

請幫助我們讓這個世界不要拋棄阿富汗。請在塔利班佔領喀布爾之前幫助我們。我們的時間所剩不多，也許幾天。十分感謝。我非常感激您純潔的心。

致上問候
薩赫熱 · 卡里米砂巴

原文：
To All the Film Communities in The World and Who Loves Film and Cinema!
My name is Sahraa Karimi, a film director and the current general director of Afghan Film, the only stated-owned film company established in 1968.
I write to you with a broken heart and a deep hope that you can join me in protecting my beautiful people, especially filmmakers from the Taliban. In the last few weeks, the Taliban have gained control of so many provinces. They have massacred our people, they kidnapped many children, they sold girls as child brides to their men, they murdered a woman for her attire, they gauged the eyes of a woman, they tortured and murdered one of our beloved comedians, they murdered one of our historian poets, they murdered the head of culture and media for the government, they have been assassinating people affiliated with the government, they hung some of our men publicly, they have displaced hundreds of thousands of families. The families are in camps in Kabul after fleeing these provinces, and they are in unsanitary condition. There is looting in the camps and babies dying because they don’t have milk. It is a humanitarian crisis, and yet the world is silent.
We have grown accustomed to this silence, yet we know it is not fair. We know that this decision to abandon our people is wrong, that this hasty troop withdrawal is a betrayal of our people and all that we did when Afghans won the Cold War for the west. Our people were forgotten then, leading up to the Taliban’s dark rule, and now, after twenty years of immense gains for our country and especially our younger generations, all could be lost again in this abandonment.
We need your voice. The media, governments, and the world humanitarian organizations are conveniently silent as if this “Peace deal” with the Taliban was ever legitimate. It was never legitimate. Recognizing them gave them the confidence to come back to power. The
Taliban have been brutalizing our people throughout the entire process of the talks. Everything that I have worked so hard to build as a filmmaker in my country is at risk of falling. If the Taliban take over they will ban all art. I and other filmmakers could be next on their hit list. They will strip women’s rights, we will be pushed into the shadows of our homes and our voices, our expression will be stifled into silence. When the Taliban were in power, zero girls were in school. Since then there are over 9 million Afghan girls in school. This is incredible Herat, the third-largest city which just fell to the Taliban had nearly 50% women in its university. These are incredible gains that the world hardly knows about. Just in these few weeks, the Taliban have destroyed many schools and 2 million girls are forced now out of school again.
I do not understand this world. I do not understand this silence. I will stay and fight for my country, but I cannot do it alone. I need allies like you. Please help us get this world to care about what is happening to us. Please help us by informing your countries’ most important media what is going on here in Afghanistan. Be our voices outside Afghanistan. If the Taliban take over Kabul, we may not have access to the internet or any communication tool at all. Please engage your filmmakers, artists to support us to be our voice.
This war is not a civil war, this is a proxy war, this is an imposed war and it is the result of the US deal with the Taliban. Please as much as you can share this fact with your media and write about us on your social media.
The world should not turn its back on us. We need your support and your voice on behalf of Afghan women, children, artists, and filmmakers. This support would be the greatest help we need right now.
Please help us get this world to not abandon Afghanistan. Please help us before the Taliban take over Kabul. We have such little time, maybe days. Thank you so much. I appreciate your pure true heart so dearly.
With regard,
Sahraa Karimi

原始內容來源
https://mobile.twitter.com/sahraakarimi/status/1426161540818997250?fbclid=IwAR1ziip3P_pumPv1n6US82MxCNpe31RVStY0XELFxCeZa8xPJLdUtJ1fOAE
照片來自
Babak Taghvaee - Μπάπακ Τακβαίε - بابک تقوایی

西班牙南部小島 La Palma 火山爆發進入第七天，自 9/19 週日噴發以來，已迫使超過六千人撤離，摧毀上百座房屋，許多人失去了他們擁有的一切。火山仍在持續爆發，科學家們預估有可能持續長達 84 天。

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0:00 Intro
1:33 第一遍英文朗讀
4:04 新聞 & 相關單字解說
14:13 額外單字片語
20:22 第二遍英文朗讀

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朗讀內容參考了
France24、
Al Jazeera、
CBS、
NPR、
CNN、
以及 BBC。

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本集提到的單字片語：
Diplomatic row
Volcano 火山
Volcanic ash 火山灰
Volcanic eruption 火山爆發
Volcanology 火山學
Volcanologist 火山學家
Lava / molten lava 熔岩
Spain 西班牙
Spanish 西班牙人、西班牙的、西班牙語
Archipelago 群島
Canary Islands 加納利群島
Atlantic Ocean 大西洋
La Palma
Cumbre Vieja
Erupt / eruption 爆發、噴發
Spew out 噴出
Earthquake swarm 群震
Fatalities 死亡人數
Casualties 傷亡
Volcanology Institute 火山研究所
Evacuations 疏散撤離
Fertile 肥沃的
Plantations 農園
Crops 農作物
Islanders 島民的
Livelihoods 生計
Jeopardize 危及
Miracle house 奇蹟之屋
Pedro Sanchez 西班牙首相桑切斯
Financial aid 經濟資助
Displaced 流離失所的
Tourism Minister 觀光部長
Tourist attraction 旅遊景點
Sparked outrage 激起了憤怒
Political opponents 政治對手
Marine environment 海洋環境
Earthquakes 地震
Lava flows 熔岩流
Toxic gases 有毒氣體
Acid rain 酸雨
Consecutive
Straight
Back-to-back
Hiccup
Burp
Fart


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1 【fall flat 一敗塗地】— 動詞片語
President Trump's election challenges are falling flat in state after state.

2【MOU 合作備忘錄】— 名詞
Taiwan and the U.S. signed a MOU to boost U.S.-Taiwan economic cooperation.

memorandum of understanding

3【Guatemala 瓜地馬拉】— 名詞（國家）
Guatemala’s Congress passed a contentious budget bill.

4【displaced 流離失所的】— 形容詞（戰亂等因素）
Burkina Faso election excludes more than a million of displaced people.  

displace 的過去分詞

5 【reminisce 懷念；回想美好過往】— 動詞
People are reminiscing much more often during the pandemic.
簡單複習：
1）fall flat 一敗塗地
2）MOU 合作備忘錄
3）Guatemala 瓜地馬拉
4）displaced 流離失所的
5）reminisce 回想美好過往

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A young, exciting backcourt star rose to the forefront last night at Madison Square Garden. And when Allen Iverson's season-high 35-point performance had finished off the Knicks, New York's three-game winning streak was finished as well.

With Larry Johnson missing two potential game-tying 3-pointers during the final 20 seconds, the Philadelphia 76ers edged the Knicks, 101-97, in a game in which Iverson imposed his will.

Both Charlie Ward and Scott Brooks fouled out trying to contain Iverson -- a job that nobody on the Knicks could handle.

Iverson shot 10 for 19 from the field, and 5 for 9 from 3-point range -- making jumpers, slicing to the basket and keeping constant pressure on a Knick defense that became passive as Iverson became more aggressive. Only his free-throw shooting was off: if he had shot better than 10 of 17 from the line, he might have scored 40 points.

After watching this game, do not be surprised if Chris Childs (non-displaced fractured right fibula) is inclined to rush himself back into the Knicks' lineup. Childs begins full-scale workouts Wednesday, and he could be activated later this week. The Knicks could have used Childs last night, but it might not have mattered who defended the Sixers' talented rookie. Iverson was that good. And playing in New York for the first time as a professional did not unnerve Iverson. It was Iverson who unnerved the Knicks.

Asked if anyone could have covered him, Iverson said: ''I don't think so. When my jumper is on, I can pretty much do whatever I want. But when the jumper is on, it is hard to stop anybody in this league.''