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Author: Elin Anisha Guro

PANTAW A MAREG: Rain Do not Drop

‘Tis music to my earsThis heavy October downpourAt ten o’clock in the evening.I can hear a tiny stream quickly formingAt the narrow water canalA few inches from my roomThreatening to overflow. How swiftly did the pitter-patter of raindropsBecome heavy rain!On

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Memories of Marawi City Ramadhan

MARAWI CITY (MindaNews / 26 April) — It is Ramadhan. That should have been an exclamation point as exciting an announcement as when my daughters and their cousins were grade schoolers and would gleefully shout “Piyagbangaaaan!” every time they hear

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PANTAW A MAREG: My Carmelite Mothers

MELBOURNE (MindaNews / 19 Sept) — Sharing with you what I wrote about my Carmelite Mothers few years ago, in happy recognition of Father Chito’s “rescue, release, escape” and whatever it is called or will be called in the future.

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PANTAW A MAREG: A Mother’s Pain

MELBOURNE (MindaNews / 04 September) — My two daughters, Schaharazhed and Rojan, spent the best years of their lives as students of Werribee Secondary College here in Melbourne, Australia. But it was initially a struggle of belonging and acceptance in

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PANTAW A MAREG: Sari, the MSU Mascot

One of the legends about Sarimanok has it that a heavenly being fell in love with Sari, the beautiful daughter of the Sultan. He turned into a beautiful rooster to attract the princess and then took her away with him,

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OUR MARAWI: Good night world.

ELIN ANISHA GURO’s note: I wrote the English part below in Melbourne, Australia while watching a video of Marawi City burning on June 5, 2017. The Meranaw translation is from a Meranaw scholar and professor of ethnomusicology who pioneered the

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