Category: Culture

One name is unavoidable

Page by page, Marwan Barghouti’s anti-war tome walked out of prison By Joseph Dana, December 23 2011 … Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza celebrated the return of their loved ones last Sunday as the final wave of prisoners were released in an exchange between Hamas and Israel. However, one prisoner was notably absent. …

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Big

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Ours will be the same

As the Arabs see the Jews By His Majesty King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein (1882-1951), The American Magazine November, 1947 … I am especially delighted to address an American audience, for the tragic problem of Palestine will never be solved without American understanding, American sympathy, American support. So many billions of words have been written about …

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They may be right

The Absurdity of Christmas By David Lose, 12/22/11 07:37 AM ET … I’ve been struck by the ads and billboards atheists have purchased again this year suggesting that Christmas is, to put it kindly, a myth. Struck. Not offended or angered. Just struck. The gist of the advertisements is essentially that there is little to …

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Survivor

According to the park ranger, there are just a few remaining sections of old growth forest left in Hot Springs National Park.  We left the roads and trails and climbed up to the highest point of North Mountain, but if this was old growth, there were precious few survivors.  This may have been one of …

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Sansour censored

Nation Estate (2012) Photo and video by Larissa Sansour … The Nation Estate project is a sci-fi photo series conceived in the wake of the Palestinian bid for nationhood at the UN. Three preliminary sketches have been developed especially for the Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011 – an award I was nominated for until Lacoste decided …

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Leaving the church in droves

Millennials will change the future of the church By Fred Clark, December 18, 2011 4:34 pm … First let me tell you a story from almost 20 years ago. My buddy Dwight and I were arguing over what I was going to wear to a meeting. “I’m not a catcher,” I told him. Catchers have …

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