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5/2 The truth about integration

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31/1 Wooden rowing boats to disappear from Amstel

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24/1 Action groups call for Carmel and Jaffa boycott

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21/1 Merge districts

20/1 Closing squat bar Vrankrijk not necessary

20/1 Cleaners welcome new Schiphol director

18/1 Palestine at the Jewish Historical Museum

18/1 What is the right size for a district?

17/1 PvdA Oost against fewer districts

16/1 Committee: 7 districts by 2010

15/1 Soldiers may attend Afghanistan debate after all

15/1 Bait bike leads to arrest

14/1 Youth for Christ to republish vacancies

13/1 Paintings of the Zuidas

13/1 New Youth for Christ contoversy

11/1 Social cohesion initiative raises eyebrows

10/1 Fewer districts in 2010

10/1 Zuidas: People feel that we are losers

9/1 Fun on the ice - but not for all

9/1 Supermarket coupon fraud thwarted

9/1 I Amsterdam must remain exclusive

8/1 Use term Apartheid in every discussion

8/1 No city kiosk in Amsterdam yet

7/1 Snow

7/1 Fatima Elatik to run Zeeburg

7/1 Municipal managers to return to shop floor

4/1 Police: take photo of strange people

3/1 Gaza protest criticises politicians

1/1 Thousands to protest against attacks on Gaza

1/1 Mustapha Laboui leaves district council

 

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Literature

23 September 2006 – Amsterdam is offering appartments to writers in residence. In addition, the city may get a new bookstore, NRC Handelsblad reported last night.

The visiting writers will be offered an apartment at the Spui. “We want to hear foreign voices in all those debates on Dutch society”, says Henk Pröpper, director of the Foundation for Production and Translation of Dutch Literature and one of the initiators.

“The Dutch government has been saying for a long time that we have to become more internationally oriented, but in practice little is done. We are now making a first move”. The Writers’ House will open on 13 October. Last week, Flemish writer David van Reybrouck moved into one of the two apartments that are available.

While writers from ‘Greater Netherlands’ are invited first, writers from further countries will be included as well. One of the writers who have agreed to stay at the Writers’ House is Elif Shafak, who was recently acquitted in a case brought to court by Turkish nationalists.

NRC Handelsblad further reports that Huib Schreurs (former director of Paradiso) and Cees de Groot (independent book publisher) want to open a new bookstore at the Weteringschans early next year. The store is to specialise in history, war and religion. It is not to be “about tanks and esotericism but historic significance and influence”.

The initiators have sent a letter requesting support to four hundred potential funders.

 

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