I gratefully accept this prize in the hope that the authorities in Jerusalem a twin capital, one day, I hope will look to the future of its children and the conflicts that potentially could engulf them, end the settlements and encroachments and aspire creatively to the open, respectful, plural condition of the novel, the literary form that they honor tonight.
I gratefully accept this prize in the hope that the authorities in Jerusalem — a twin capital, one day, I hope — will look to the future of its children and the conflicts that potentially could engulf them, end the settlements and encroachments and aspire creatively to the open, respectful, plural condition of the novel, the literary form that they honor tonight.
Unified Budapest was the twin capital of the powerful Austro-Hungarian Empire and as such it benefitted from rapid economic growth, which, like many other European cities of the time, helped foster a thriving coffee house culture.
The twin capitals share a great deal, including language and music, but their colonial and modern histories are completely different; as if to underscore this, there is no bridge across the river, only a ferry and smugglers' canoes.
Centring in Guatemala and Honduras, where the twin capitals of Quiriguá and Copán are still well-known sites, the Maya spread out to El Salvador, into what is today Belize, and into much of Mexico.
This liberation battle comes after more than two years of Daesh oppression in Mosul, during which they committed horrible atrocities, brutalised the people and asserted the city was one of their twin capitals.
The battles to liberate the Islamic State's twin capitals — Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria — included some of the most significant urban operations involving the United States since the Vietnam War.
"The consequences of that are seen in Mosul and Raqqa, where the risk to civilians grew and grew, and there were no adjustments made," he said, referring to the intense 2016-2017 bombing campaigns in and around the Islamic State's twin capitals in Iraq and Syria, respectively.
Goth, with its twin capitals of Soho-Camden and Leeds-Bradford, became one of Britain's biggest youth tribes, and the goth look – big, backcombed black hair, ghostly white skin, scarlet lipstick, heavy eyeliner, lace, buckles and PVC – became an easy cultural identifier.
But the loss of one of its twin capitals and a jewel of their so-called caliphate is a decisive blow," he said.
They are too busy posing for journalists and marketing their town to tourists as the "twins capital of the world".
