COE POLITICAL COMMITTEE TO HOLD HEARINGS ON NAGORNY KARABAKH CONFLICT

Azer Tag, Azerbaijan State Info Agency
May 24 2004

[May 24, 2004, 12:33:41]

Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is due
on May 24.

As was informed to the correspondent of AzerTAj from press-service of
Milli Majlis, the head of delegation of Azerbaijan in this
Organization Samad Seyidov will take part in the session.

At the session, discussed will be exchange of opinions with
candidates on the post of the Secretary General of the Council of
Europe, the agenda of June session of 2004 and results of the
conference of chairmen of parliaments of the Southern Caucasus
countries.

In the session of PACE Committee of political affairs on May 25, also
will participate the deputy of Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan Vagif
Vekilov. On this action, the opinion of the special representative of
the Council of Europe on Nagorny Karabakh conflict Terry Davis,
concerning this conflict will be heard, also discussed will be the
exchange of opinions on activity of the Organization on Northern
Ireland, further development of democratic reforms in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, political conditions in the Chechen Republic and on
other questions.

The visit will come end on May 27.

Charles Aznavour a fêté son 80e anniversaire sur scène

Swiss Info
24 Mai 2004

PARIS – Charles Aznavour a fêté son 80e anniversaire sur scène au
palais des Congrès à Paris. Plusieurs personnalités dont le président
Jacques Chirac et son épouse ont assisté au concert au profit de
l’Institut national du cancer.

Ce concert exceptionnel était retransmis en direct sur les chaînes
de télévision privées françaises TFI et RTL. Le ministre de la Santé
Philippe Douste-Blazy était également présent.

De nombreux artistes étaient venus et Charles Aznavour a notamment
interprété ses chansons en duo avec Johnny Hallyday, Liza Minnelli,
le ténor Roberto Alagna, Patricia Kaas ou Nana Mouskouri.

Entouré de chanteurs de toutes générations qui lui avaient fait
la surprise de leur présence et d’un orchestre, Charles Aznavour a
interprété trois chansons seul. Il a commencé par «Je me voyais déjà»
et a terminé par «Mort vivant» une chanson sur le délit d’opinion
extraite de son dernier album intitulé «Je voyage», disque d’or.

Pour l’artiste international Aznavour qui se dit «mélodiste et non
compositeur», «la retraite c’est la mort». Il a été longuement
ovationné par la salle debout, y compris le couple présidentiel
tandis que tous les chanteurs réunis sur scène lui souhaitaient
«joyeux anniversaire».

NEWS Press
18 mai 2004

FIDH : La Turquie doit traduire ses réformes en vue de l’adhésion à
l’UE par une action concrète en matière de droits de l’Homme

FIDH Fédération Internationale des ligues des droits de l’homme

À l’occasion du Conseil d’association UE/Turquie du 18 mai 2004, la
FIDH souhaite manifester son inquiétude quant à la situation des
droits de l’Homme en Turquie, et attirer l’attention sur plusieurs
sujets alarmants, afin d’en faire une priorité dans les débats au
sein du présent Conseil.

Certes, le gouvernement turc met indéniablement en place une
politique intense de réformes législatives en vue la reprise de
l’acquis communautaire, préalable à l’adhésion à l’Union européenne.
Outre sept « paquets » de réformes politiques et une activité
législative intense durant ces derniers mois, le Parlement turc a
ratifié plusieurs traités internationaux et européens, tels que le
Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques, le Pacte
international relatif aux droits économiques, sociaux et culturels ou
encore le Protocole n° 6 à la CEDH.

Si la FIDH accueille avec soulagement ces avancées, elle s’interroge
cependant sur les conditions de la mise en oeuvre de ces engagements,
et demeure vivement préoccupée par la situation de nombreux droits
fondamentaux qui continuent d’être systématiquement violés en
Turquie. La situation des défenseurs des droits de l’Homme Les
défenseurs des droits de l’Homme continuent de souffrir de nombreuses
formes de répression en Turquie, au mépris de la Déclaration de
l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies de 1998 sur les défenseurs des
droits de l’Homme : obstacles à l’enregistrement et fermetures
d’associations, perquisitions illégales et saisines de documents,
campagnes de diffamation, menaces et intimidations… Surtout, on
assiste à un accroissement dramatique du recours à la justice aux
fins de sanctionner les défenseurs. Ceux qui osent dénoncer les
violations perpétrées à l’encontre des Kurdes demeurent
particulièrement visés.

La persistance des actes de torture La FIDH dénonce les pratiques de
torture et de traitements inhumains et dégradants commis en Turquie
par la police et les gendarmes. Malgré l’engagement de l’État à mener
une politique de « tolérance zéro » à l’égard de la torture, la
pratique de la torture n’est pas en diminution, loin de là. Elle
prend des formes plus « sophistiquées » et difficilement décelable,
surtout dans les lieux de détention et sur la personne des opposants
politiques. L’impunité des auteurs d’actes de torture persiste. La
justice et l’État de droit Plusieurs changements législatifs ont
contribué à renforcer l’efficacité du système judiciaire turc, mais
certaines de ses caractéristiques demeurent très préoccupantes. Le
maintien des Cours de sûreté de l’État, le non-respect du droit à un
procès juste et équitable, l’inexistence de tribunaux d’appel ou
encore l’inapplication des décisions de la CEDH sont autant
d’éléments qui détournent la Turquie de l’État de droit.

Les conditions de détention De trop nombreux cas de violations des
droits des détenus persistent en Turquie. Malgré les récentes
réformes, l’accès à un avocat n’est toujours pas garanti pour les
personnes en détention préventive et des cas d’intimidation des
détenus et de leurs avocats sont signalés. Dans les provinces du
Sud-Est du pays, et particulièrement dans les prisons de type E et F,
les violations se multiplient. Le problème des minorités La Turquie a
fait quelques avancées en matière de traitement des minorités
nationales ou religieuses. Ces avancées restent cependant limitées
(la Turquie évite en outre tout engagement international concernant
les minorités) et illusoires, puisqu’en pratique la situation des
minorités, en particulier des Kurdes, reste dramatique. Les minorités
se voient déniés leurs droits fondamentaux, et notamment les droits
culturels.

La FIDH condamne également la politique de négation menée par les
autorités turques concernant le génocide arménien, et appelle la
Turquie à se conformer à la résolution du Parlement européen du 18
juin 1987 sur la question arménienne. La fragilisation de la société
civile Les libertés d’association, d’expression et de réunion, en
dépit de certains assouplissements, demeurent particulièrement
contrôlées en Turquie et participent au musellement de la société
civile. Leurs restrictions sont utilisées pour faire taire, en
particulier, les défenseurs des droits de l’Homme, les minorités,
ainsi que les opposants politiques. De plus la législation turque,
même lorsqu’elle est révisée, n’empêche souvent pas des pratiques peu
compatibles avec les dispositions du Pacte international relatif aux
droits civils et politiques et de la CEDH.

Los Angeles Daily News, CA
May 23 2004

Blaming others

The Costa Ricans look down on the Nicaraguans. The Mexicans bad-mouth
Guatemalans. In Japan they discriminate against Koreans. In New
Zealand, the native Maoris are the underclass.

The Germans spit on the Turks, who have done quite a bit more in
recent history than just spit on the Armenians and Greeks. In Sudan,
militias of lighter-skinned Arabs are slaughtering darker-skinned
Africans. The Palestinians and Israelis blow each other up so often
that it’s no longer big news.

It doesn’t matter where you go in the world, there’s always a group
that gets the blame for everything from economic woe to the spread of
disease. And in the United States, the scourge du jour is the “Latino
invasion.”

It always comes down to the same complaint, no matter if you’re
talking about the ethnic Nicas in Costa Rica, the Koreans looking for
jobs in Japan, the Pakistanis raising their families in London: They
steal our jobs. They threaten our way of life. We didn’t ask them to
come here. They won’t abandon their odd foreign ways for our good old
American/Mexican/Muslim/Teutonic traditions. They aren’t like us.
They are parasites that we have to support with our hard-earned tax
dollars. They should go home.

Last week, I wrote about the rising tension in Los Angeles and
elsewhere over the ever-growing Latino population in the United
States, as well as the fears that raises. I didn’t delve into the
whole question of illegal immigration, leaving that treacherous
subject for another day.

The piece drew a few very thoughtful letters from readers who are
individually working out what all this change means for them and
their communities.

But, like Mexicans in Maine, those were a distinct minority.

>>From the East Coast to the Midwest, I was inundated with angry,
sputtering letters from people incensed by the growing numbers of
Latinos. Some used the opportunity to disparage me personally for
taking up the topic, calling me “shallow and narrow-minded,” noting
that clearly I am only a columnist because I am Latina, that if I
don’t like the tension “I should go back to where I came from.”
(What, Indiana?)

All of which, sadly, just proved my point that there are some very,
very bad feelings in this country.

Nearly all of the angry writers couched their anger in terms of the
“illegals,” turning their intolerance into a policy question. Yes,
it’s true there are millions of Mexican and Central American illegal
immigrants in the country, and we don’t even know how many. Yes, they
use government services they are not entitled to. But there’s plenty
of data, not to mention common sense, showing that while they may be
using the emergency rooms for primary care, illegal immigrants also
contribute into a system from which they are legally unable to
benefit.

They do so by providing dirt-cheap labor in the fields and factories,
and even Wal-Mart, which means we legal Americans benefit from lower
prices. They pay taxes. They pay thousands of dollars to independent
businesses for usurious fees because they’re unable to conduct
business in anything other than cash. They work cheaply in our yards,
our kitchens and caring for our kids, but without any insurance or
worker’s comp protection or Social Security.

Who benefits? We do. We like to be proud of the idea that the United
States is a strong beacon of hope for the downtrodden around the
world, but then we cringe when we find that the actual downtrodden at
our doorstep are often poor, uneducated, in need of help, maybe even
a little smelly. All that generosity fades away.

I’m not advocating illegal immigration. But our federal government
has turned a blind eye to a great many of those downtrodden creeping
inside the gates. They are here, among the many millions of legal
immigrants. And that’s no excuse for intolerance.

There was more bad news the other day for those worried about the
“Latino invasion.” The California Department of Finance predicts that
within a decade, Latinos will be a majority in Los Angeles County
and, by 2040, a majority of the state’s population.

And when that happens, don’t be surprised when the comfortable Latino
majority starts agitating against how the new foreign invaders —
maybe it’ll be North Koreans next — are trashing the country and
ruining the fabric of society.

Mariel Garza is an editorial writer and columnist for the Los Angeles
Daily News. Write to her by e-mail at [email protected]

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

‘Excluding Turkey would be the Failure of EU Arguments’

Zaman, Turkey
May 23 2004

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul declared that using lame excuses
to exclude Turkey from the EU would mark the failure of EU arguments
and warned that a soulless bureaucratic structure would remain instead.

Gul, delivering the opening speech of the ‘New Horizons in Turkish
Foreign Policy’ meeting held at the Dedeman Hotel, said that if the EU
could overcome the Dark Ages’ arguments then it would give Turkey a
date for talks at the December summit. Gul emphasized that it would
be grave injustice towards Turkey if the EU said it did not meet
Copenhagen Criteria. He said that the “Lists of to-do have turned
into the tally of already-done.”

Gul also pointed out that the narrow-minded powers that object
Turkey’s membership are condemned not only in Europe but also in
other regions. He added, “Whenever an unfair opinion is spoken against
Turkey, its response is given within Europe.”

‘We Pursue Soft Power Strategy’

Gul talked about the shift in the mentality of Turkey’s foreign
policy, stressing that Turkey now pursued the ‘soft power’ strategy.
He explained that this method was both more effective and respected.
Gul added that the ideals of big country could only be achieved by
self-confidence.

Gul said that the government’s foreign policy has the content and
dynamism that spreads a culture of compromise. Gul stressed that
Turkey has a few active and inactive problems around itself, but
added that an atmosphere of cooperation and dialogue should take the
lead in helping Turkey to progress beyond the mentality that it is
“surrounded by enemies”. Gul pointed out that relations with Greece
are developing into a ‘strategic partnership’, and that Turkey wants
to be a ‘catalyst’ in Azeri-Armenian conflict.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Words of grief, praise offered for Minnesotan killed in Armenia
By AVET DEMOURIAN

Associated Press
May 23 2004

YEREVAN, Armenia – Friends, colleagues and students shed tears and
shared words of praise at a memorial service Sunday for Joshua Haglund,
a Minnesotan who was teaching English in Armenia and was stabbed to
death in the capital Yerevan earlier this month.

About 100 people attended the ceremony in an auditorium at the
American University of Armenia. A portrait photograph of Haglund,
a 33-year-old from Shoreview, Minn., stood flanked by two burning
candles on a stand draped with black cloth, and mourners made entries
in a condolence book.

“I was fascinated with his sensibility and sense of humor. We shared
everything, good and bad,” Amelia Weir, a friend who met Haglund
on her first day in Armenia, told those assembled. “Something that
struck me – he was fully present in this life. He wanted us to be
dedicated to what we do.”

“Joshua was filled with emotion by nature, and his honesty and
decency amazed us,” said Zarui Shushanian, one of Haglund’s students
at Yerevan’s Linguistics University, where he taught under the aegis
of the U.S. State Department’s English Language Fellow program.

The U.S. deputy chief of mission in Armenia, Vivian Walker, recited
Psalm 23 from the Bible – “The Lord is my shepherd” – and an Armenian
priest, Father Ktrich Derezhian, said that Haglund had “wished people
well with all his heart, but his heart was broken.”

Haglund’s body was found in downtown Yerevan on the night of May 17,
with signs of beating and three stab wounds in his chest, Armenian
police said. An official with the Armenian Prosecutor General’s office
said on condition of anonymity that the killing had “personal motives”
and voiced hope that perpetrators could be quickly found.

Haglund had been planning to leave Armenia shortly for a trip through
Iran before returning to Minnesota for the summer. Before coming to
Armenia, a Caucasus Mountain nation that gained independence in the
1991 Soviet breakup, he had lived for extended periods in Japan,
India and Puerto Rico.

Sergei Ivanov Says Gabala Station Will Serve Only To Russia

Baku Today
21/05/2004 16:27

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov on Thursday denied rumors
that his government was planning to allow the United States to use
its Gabala radar station that is located in Azerbaijan.

“I don’t foresee that. Even if I had a rich imagination, I couldn’t
foresee that,” Ivanov told reporters in Yerevan, according to the
Associated Press. “This station is for the sole use of the Russian
military.”

Russia’s Interfax new agency quoted Ivanov as saying that the Gabala
radar station could only work for the interests of the space forces
of his country.

Put into operation in 1988, the Gabala radar stating was aimed to
monitor jets and missiles in the Southern Hemisphere.

The former Soviet Union had nine such radar stations, the Gabala
station and the station at Mukachevo in Ukraine being the last to
be constructed.

After the fall of the Soviet Union in late 1991, Azerbaijan allowed
Russia to continue using the station.

The Defense Minister Ivanov expressed satisfaction with the state of
military cooperation between Russia and Armenia.

Itar-Tass quoted Ivanov as saying that relations between the two
countries in the field of defense and security have been improving
dynamically and steadily and that there have been no major problems
between them.

He mentioned that 600 Armenian cadets were currently studying in
Russian higher military schools.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

The need for mobilization policy
By Eduard Harutiunian

14 May 04
Yerkir/AM

According to a common position, it is only the authorities that
are accountable before the country and the society. No doubt, the
authorities’ main role is to ensure internal and external security
of the country.

But because the authorities are formed from among the political force,
any political party has its own part of responsibility.

Political parties’ activities are completely tied with national
security issues. The parties’ responsibility is essential in internal
political developments, too.

After all, these organizations are interim links between the public
and the authorities, and they present socio-economic and political
demands of the public to the authorities. It is not natural that
political organizations, criticizing the authorities, have little
credibility. When people do not accept and trust both the authorities
and the political parties, it means that they deny any form of
political organization of the nation.

There is a dominant perception in the political life of Armenia, for
example, that unlike the government, the activities of a political
party is private and should not be a subject of state or public
control and criticism.

In a political system, the authorities have the same role as the money
in economy. Both have powerful capacities of state-building and in a
civil society, they first of all serve the national structure of the
statehood. Devaluation of the both may have devastating impact on a
country’s socio-economic, spiritual and political lives.

In a transitional society, people are disappointed first of all of
internal indefiniteness and unnecessary exploitation of national
super-issues. From this point of view, in Armenia, for example,
resolution of current problems is even harder because of the unsolved
problems left from the initial period of the transitional period.

This is why Armenia is in the zone of “military-political quakes.” Only
a social system that has reliable qualifications for internal security
can best overcome external threats. History of transitional nations
shows that on the way to open societies, the mobilization policy
should be used as an interim means.

Such policy is crucial when a society finds itself in a crisis,
and social and political tensions run high. In these conditions, the
need to mobilize all external and internal resources, emerges. The
model of state and political mobilization is a policy that enables
to reach a higher immunity of the society through the least expenses
but single-minded efforts.

This is especially true for transitional nations because their
immunity for economic crisis is low because they are not adapted for
market economy. Having no large resources, time and capacities to
establish competent economies, it is necessary to establish functional
definiteness inside the system, well-organized national life and a
determination of discreet conditions for everybody.

The internal conditions of the survival of the Armenian nation are
already crossing the threatening line. To correct the situation, it
is necessary to centralize the government, create a just distribution
system, tough control and clarification of the political field. Of
course, these are not components of a market economy. But the
mobilization policy is the only way to bring the state and national
systems out of the current difficult conditions.

7th International Junior Wrestling Tournament Starts In Izmir

Turkish Press
Saturday, May 22, 2004

Anadolu Agency: 5/22/2004

IZMIR – The Seventh International Junior Free-Style and Greco-Roman
Wrestling Tournament started in western province of Izmir on Friday.

Wrestlers from Turkey, Albania, Azerbaijan, Germany, Armenia, Bulgaria,
Georgia, Hungary, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tunisia and
Turkmenistan participated in the tournament.

The tournament will end on Sunday.

(UK-AÖ) 21.05.2004

Copyright 2004 Anadolu Agency. All rights reserved

The Daily Star, Bangladesh
May 22 2004

Talking books
Agha Shahid Ali
Yasmeen Murshed

The transience of human life is much with me these days and I find
myself recalling lost friends and lost opportunities with increasing
nostalgia. I would have loved hearing Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in person
because his CDs are a poor substitute for the drama of the real life
version, but it was not to be, and I would have greatly enjoyed
meeting the talented poet, Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) whose
premature death has saddened his many admirers and a poetry lovers
throughout the world. It has deprived South Asia of a blazing talent
from taking its rightful place among contemporary English poets.
Born in New Delhi, brought up in Kashmir and later to become an
American, Ali taught at a number of prestigious institutions in
America including the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His poetry
collections include The Half-Inch Himalayas (Pub: Wesleyan University
Press 1987); A Nostalgist’s Map Of America (pub: Norton 1992); The
Country Without A Post Office (pub: Norton 1997); and Rooms Are Never
Finished (pub: Norton 2001) which was a finalist for the National
Book Award in the US in 2001. He was a ghazal enthusiast and
translated Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poems in The Rebel’s Silhouette —
Selected Poems (pub: University of Massachusetts Press 1991). He
cajoled and encouraged a wide range of well known modern poets into
contributing to a poetry anthology entitled Ravishing Disunities —
Real Ghazals In English (pub: Wesleyan University Press 2000) which
he edited.

I reread The Country Without a Post Office recently and it reminded
me what a strong and vibrant poet Ali was. These poems are a poignant
and nostalgic evocation of his lost homeland particularly in the
tragic era of events when the troubles began in Kashmir. A haunting
volume it establishes this Kashmiri-American poet as a very important
poetic contributor to the body of work in English by South Asians.

In this book he focuses on the tragedy of his homeland which has been
devastated by the internal strife wrought on the land with “mass
rapes in the villages/towns left in cinders”. Ali finds that
contemporary history has forced him to return not as a tourist as he
would have liked, but as a witness to the savagery visited upon
Kashmir since the 1990 uprising against Indian rule. Amid rain and
fire and ruin, in a land of “doomed addresses”, Ali evokes the
tragedy of his birthplace. These are stunning poems, intensely
musical steeped in history, myth, and politics all merging into Ali’s
truest mode, that of longing. The Hindu-Muslim conflict reminds Ali
of similar genocidal wars in Bosnia and Armenia but in Kashmir the
blood of victims falls like “rubies on Himalayan snow” while “guns
shoot stars into the sky”. With the population decimated and the Post
Office destroyed, Ali’s poems become “cries like dead letters,” and
the poet becomes “keeper of the minaret.”

Ali’s strong affinity for Urdu is evident in his language which
eerily brings the cadences and drama of South Asia into English
poetry and in a sense each poem translates across the boundaries of
continents to result in a fusion of cultures. He seems to have a very
deep understanding of “words behind the words” as will be seen from
this short poem entitled “Stationery”.

The moon did not become the sun.
It just fell on the desert
in great sheets, reams
of silver handmade by you.
The night is your cottage industry now,
The day is your brisk emporium.
The world is full of paper.
Write to me.

Ali was imbued with the romance of Urdu poetry and he brings to his
work an inventive formalness infused with passion and grief. Kashmiri
myth and culture imbue these poems dramatising the importance of
eastern imagery and the Ghazal while Ali’s vast readings in, and
knowledge of, English Literature shines through in his allusions
which range from Tacitus through to Eliot.

After his death his friend Rukun Advani wrote of him, “In the early
1970s, Agha Shahid Ali already had a high reputation as an Indian
‘University Wit’. He was known in poetry coteries as a connoisseur of
verse, a fund of learning on T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (he went on to
write a fine Ph. D. on ‘T. S. Eliot as Editor’), a ghazal enthusiast,
an inspiring lecturer of English, a bird of the most dazzling feather
who everyone in our university wanted to look at and hear. His
reputation had spilled out of Hindu College, where he didn’t so much
teach as captivate and infect his students with his knowledge of
Hindustani music, Urdu verse, and the Modernist movement in
Anglo-American poetry. He was much in demand in the other colleges,
where he would invariably be encored and asked to read some of his
own verse.

This he always did with consummate, engaging immodesty. We are all
narcissists in some way, but Shahid had perfected the art of
narcissism. He displayed it unashamedly and was universally loved for
the abandon with which he could be so unabashedly and coyly full of
himself. He was just so disconcertingly free of pretence in this
respect, so entirely unique just for this reason. As he said of
himself once, ‘Sweetheart, I’m successful in the US of A only because
I’ve raised self-promotion to the level of art.’

But he deserved every accolade he got. He had one foot in the realm
of mushairas and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, the other in the world of Western
versification and translation activity. His own achievement was to
blend the two. Eliotic blank verse was, in the main, not for him
because he thought it an easy way out for poets. His own evolution as
a poet is marked by his increased interest in mastering the most
complex verse forms of Europe, such as the ‘canzone’ and the
‘sestina’, and deploying them as moulds for sub-continental ideas,
Kashmiri themes, Urdu sentiment. No one did this as successfully as
Shahid. Literary criticism does not yet possess a proper vocabulary
to describe the ways in which he pushed English poetry in new
directions.”

My own favourite is his “The Wolf’s Postscript to Little Red Riding
Hood”, from A Walk Through The Yellow Pages (pub: Sun Gemini 1987). I
have included it in its entirety because I find it one of the most
engaging and witty pieces of writing of recent times.

“First, grant me my sense of history:
I did it for posterity, for kindergarten teachers and clear moral:
Little girls shouldn’t wander off in search of strange flowers
And they mustn’t speak to strangers.
And then grant me my generous sense of plot:
Couldn’t I have gobbled her up right there in the jungle?
Why didn’t I ask her where her grandma lived?
As if I a forest-dweller, didn’t know of the cottage
under the three oak trees and the old woman who lived
there all alone? As if I couldn’t have swallowed her years before?
And you may call me the Big Bad Wolf, now my only reputation.
But I was no child-molester though you’ll agree she was pretty.
And the huntsman: Was I sleeping while he snipped my thick black fur
and filled me with garbage and stones?
I ran with that weight and fell down, simply so children could laugh
at the noise of the stones cutting through my belly, at the garbage
spilling out with a perfect sense of timing, just when the tale
should have come to an end.”

Yasmeen Murshed is a full-time bookworm and a part-time educationist
. She is also the founder of Scholastica School.