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Holding the Centre

September 13, 2009 Reflections
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I’ve just finished reading Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize.
Subtitled A Memior of Revolution and Hope, it is an inspiring read!
As I read, I was struck by the way in which Shirin Ebadi ‘holds the centre’ – that sometimes painful space where we stand in the centre of contradictions [...]

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