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Apr 25 2011

Hear me roar

Rebellion: Smashing stereotypes of Arab women

By Soumaya Ghannoushi, 25 Apr 2011 13:28 … The Arab revolutions are not only shaking the structure of tyranny to the core – they are shattering many of the myths about the Arab region…  [more]

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Apr 25 2011

Dungeons and dragons

What the Guantanamo leaks won’t reveal

By Darryl Li, 25 Apr 2011 19:28 … In the coming days, many will pore over the Guantánamo files released by Wikileaks to find startling revelations or to justify pre-existing positions. But before diving…  [more]

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Apr 24 2011

Fascists using religion

Justifying a banishment

By Admiel Kosman, 12:02 24.04.11 … In one of the versions of the story of Hagar, Abraham holds a feast to celebrate the fact that Isaac has been weaned. At that event, as it is written in…  [more]

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Apr 24 2011

A mere technocrat?

Obama’s Passover liberation theology

By Anna Hartnell, Sunday 24 April 2011 14.00 BST … Issued on Friday 15 April, ahead of this week’s Passover celebrations, Obama’s quietly radical Passover message embraced the explosive mix of religion, Middle East politics…  [more]

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Apr 23 2011

Easter: hats, bunnies, eggs and hallelujah?

What’s good about Good Friday?

By Susan Brooks Thislethwaite, Friday, April 22, 2011 … The word “good” in “Good Friday” is actually an older way of saying “pious” or “holy.” In the Christian tradition, this is a holy day…  [more]

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Apr 23 2011

If it bleeds it leads

Ghosts will haunt Libya for decades

By Patrick Cogburn, Sunday, 24 April 2011 … In Baghdad at the end of last year, Waled Hamid brought a peculiar court case against a man who had sold him a house. Mr Hamid…  [more]

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Apr 23 2011

Megalomessianic meddling

300 Goats and Sheep, 20 Slaughterers, One Willful Rabbi

By Nathan Jeffay, April 13, 2011 (issue of April 22, 2011) Jerusalem — Making Seder for the extended family seems like child’s play compared with Rabbi Yehudah Glick’s Passover preparations. The…  [more]

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