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Suzan Awinat – Humanity
Suzan Awinat – Robotics & AI lab manager & Physics lab manager IE School of Science and Technology. IE University. Reading: Humanity (الإنسانية) by Suzan Awinat (generated by AI). In the depths of hearts, humanity grows. Like a pure flower blooming in the morning glow. It fills the air with the fragrance of kindness […]
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Almudena Veganzones Vera – The strange days
Almudena Veganzones Vera – Coordinator at the Provost’s Office for Strategy & Development. IE University. Reading: The strange days (Los días raros) (Excerpt) by Vetusta Morla (2011). Open it, open it slowly. Say what you see. Tell me what you see if there is anything. A spring, brief and fleeting, between your hands. It’s time […]
Katie Mo Moore – Son of Mine
Katie Mo Moore – Bachelor in Communication and Digital Media University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia. IE University. Reading: Son of Mine by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920-1993). My son, your troubled eyes search mine, puzzled and hurt by colour line. Your black skin soft as velvet shine; What can I tell you, son of mine? […]
Joaquín Pilorget – A Patio
Joaquín Pilorget – IE Business School BBA. IE University. Reading: A Patio (Un Patio) by Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). At evening they grow weary, the patio’s two or three colours. Tonight, the moon, bright circle, fails to dominate space. Patio, channel of sky. The patio is the slope down which sky flows into the […]
María José Ferrari – Don Quixote of La Mancha (Excerpt)
María José Ferrari – PhD Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Humanities Professor IE School of Humanities. Reading: Don Quixote of La Mancha – First part, chapter II – Excerpt (Don Quijote de la Mancha) by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). These preliminaries settled, he did not care to put off any longer the execution of his […]
Mary O´Brien – Quarantine
Mary O´Brien – IE Business School Dual Degree in Business Administration & Laws IE. Reading: Quarantine by Eavan Boland (1944 –2020). In the worst hour of the worst season of the worst year of a whole people a man set out from the workhouse with his wife. He was walking—they were both walking—north. She was […]
Spring Ijeoma Odigbo – Answer
Spring Ijeoma Odigbo – Bachelor in Economics (BIE). School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs. IE University. Reading: Answer by Chinua Achebe (1930-2013). I broke at last the terror-fringed fascination that bound my ancient gaze to those crowding faces of plunder and seized my remnant life in a miracle of decision between whitecollar hands and […]
Virginia Ortega – The Cinema (Excerpt)
Virginia Ortega – Associate Director – IE Business School | Visual Arts. Reading: The Cinema (Excerpt) by Virginia Woolf (1926). The eye is in difficulties. The eye wants help. The eye says to the brain, ‘Something is happening which I do not in the least understand. You are needed.’ Together they look at the […]
Irais Souto – Craziness (Excerpt)
Irais Souto – Head of Global Marketss. IE University. Reading: Craziness (Fado Loucura) (Excerpt) by Mariza. Born of fado This I know My life is a poem I sing Of a fado I invented. Speaking I can’t give myself But I can make my soul sing And the souls know how to hear me. […]
Eduardo Andrés Martínez-Acha Paris – Old Panama
Eduardo Andrés Martínez-Acha Paris – School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs. IE University. Reading: Old Panama (Panamá Viejo) by Ricardo Fábrega (1905-1973). I’ve spent a lifetime relishing the distant memory of your ancient stones that speak of heroism. Under the shadow of your walls the mixed blood of Spaniards and corsairs was redeemed. […]