Jan 19 2013
Is it the End of Days for Jeremy Gimpel? By Allison Kaplan Sommer, Jan.19, 2013 | 7:23 PM Until Friday, Jeremy Gimpel was just a name on a list. To be precise, he was number 14 on the list of Knesset candidates for Habayit Hayehudi, the new incarnation of the National Religious Party headed by …
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Jan 19 2013
The controversy around Zero Dark Thirty: As misleading as the film itself By Ramzi Kassem, 19 Jan 2013 15:20 The controversy surrounding Zero Dark Thirty has been as misguided as the film itself, which opened nationwide on Friday. Much of the debate has centred on whether Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow’s latest opus leaves …
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Jan 12 2013
‘Death of a Prisoner’ By Laura Poitras, January 10, 2013 [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO2gwKLKHOo[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO2gwKLKHOo When President Obama pledged to close the Guantánamo Bay prison on his first day in office as president in 2009, I believed the country had shifted direction. I was wrong. Four years later, President Obama has not only institutionalized Guantánamo and all …
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Jan 06 2013
A letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty’s apology for torture By Naomi Wolf, Friday 4 January 2013 12.40 EST Dear Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker was a beautiful, brave film; many young women in film were inspired as they watched you become the first woman ever to win an Oscar for directing. …
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Jan 04 2013
The myth of the murderous Muslim By Haroon Moghul, 03 Jan 2013 10:02 Muslims are subversive jihadists. The Middle East is perpetually unstable. “Islam has bloody borders.” If you’ve already made up your mind, you’ll find a way to twist the facts to support your conclusion. And if the facts don’t do the job, …
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Jan 01 2013
5 Islam-bashing Republicans to watch in 2013 By Alex Kane, Tuesday, Jan 1, 2013 08:00 AM CST When Muslim-American organizations and activists concerned with Islamophobia woke up the day after the election, on November 7, they were elated. Key members of what had been dubbed the House Republican “Islamophobia caucus”had been voted out of …
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Dec 31 2012
Born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1988, Everitte recently finished his Scottish Masters in International Business and Arabic at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He currently lives in Beirut, Lebanon where he continues to research and develop his skills as a calligrapher and artist, as well as improving his Arabic language skills. Here are two examples …
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