What is loosely called the Muslim world has given its inhabitants ample experience of oppression; of constant surveillance by the secret police and their informers; of jail, torture, summary execution performed as a fête champêtre in the market square.
Although Kapuscinski's settings were many and his material varied, his underlying themes remained constant - fear and oppression and how people cope with or transcend it, meagre circumstances and how they can both warp and ennoble, the stifling drawn-out torture of political monocultures, and the abiding desire of human beings to possess their own souls.
From this realization, you can see that we are in a constant state of opposition, oppression, and contention.
Marina Prudenskaya, a Russian mezzo-soprano, produced a Marie who was less manipulative whore than caring but flawed mother, while Michael Volle, a German baritone, emphasised Wozzeck's oppression with his constant crouching.
We are witnessing a growing tendency on the part of the government and its elites to jump over the ugly reality of race and religion as bases for social stratification, discrimination and inequality, and to pathologise the minorities with constant talk of victimisation and oppression complexes.
She was deploying a technology that was designed to protect white women from men like Nelson and Robinson ― one that relies on the constant surveillance, threatened incarceration and oppression of black men.
Under the Derg regime, constant warfare, famine, and brutal political oppression plagued Ethiopia.
Black Americans are forced to deal with an unimaginable burden; we are to live in constant fear and still fight the oppression that plagues us.
In this society, black bodies are under the constant assault of all manners of marginalizations and oppressions.
