MANILA, Philippines — Jose Rizal’s most famous novel can now be read in Arabic — potentially drawing a new crowd of international readers while enhancing Philippine relations with the Middle East and ...
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine embassy in Rome has launched the Italian editions of José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and Nick Joaquin’s Tropical Gothic. The embassy’s translation is carried out in ...
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine embassy in Iraq has launched a translation project for Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere from its original 19th century Spanish to Arabic, to commemorate 50 years of ...
The Philippine Embassy in Iraq has launched the Arabic translation project of Noli Me Tangere as part of activities marking 50 years of diplomatic ...
Veterans in Iloilo City attribute a huge part of the courage and valor they demonstrated during the world war to Dr. Jose Rizal's huge influence on them.
Every December 30, we offer Rizal flowers and fine words, then go home relieved. Rizal will not permit that comfort. He disturbs. He refuses to become a harmless statue, convenient to the very habits ...
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The continuing relevance of Rizal

TOMORROW, the nation commemorates the 129th anniversary of the martyrdom of Dr. José Rizal. Who was Rizal? He wasn’t a god and should not be worshiped as one. In some ways, he was just another young ...
Long before we had a Bangsamoro Organic Law, before acronyms like BARMM, before peace panels and transitional authorities, Rizal was already writing Buayan into history—not as a rebellious periphery, ...