Nov 16 2011
Celebrating the 1611 King James Bible By Rowan Williams, Wednesday 16 November 2011 12.33 EST … This is the text of a sermon delivered at a Thanksgiving service in Westminster Abbey for the 400th anniversary of the 1611 authorised King James translation of the Bible. What is a good translation? Not one that just allows …
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Nov 16 2011
By Rafeef Ziadah, London, 12.11.11 [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM Rafeef Ziadah is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist. Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names if their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of Hadeel (cooing of …
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Nov 13 2011
A new Israel in the making By Gideon Levy, 02:21 13.11.11 … One day not long from now we will wake up to a different kind of country, the country that’s now in the making. It won’t look like the country we know, which already has its share of flaws, distortions and ills. And when …
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Nov 13 2011
Why do the US media believe the worst about Iran? By Brian Whitaker, Wednesday 9 November 2011 10.36 EST … “One of the oldest tricks in the run-up to a war is to spread terrifying stories of things that the enemy may be about to do. Government officials plant these tales, journalists water them and …
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Nov 12 2011
Will computers make extinct the last of Islam’s proud and honourable calligraphers? By Robert Fisk, Saturday 12 November 2011 … Dr Jamal Naja meets me in a coffee shop just down the road from his home in Alamuddin Street, a quiet almost mischievous face, greying hair, and he lays – with great care – a …
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Nov 12 2011
Rosie the Riveter and the Ironies of Bentonville By Harold Meyerson, November 11, 2011 … When the doors swung open this morning on Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas—funded to the tune of $1.4 billion by the Walton Family Foundation—one of its prize possessions was Norman Rockwell’s iconic World War II-era …
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Nov 11 2011
‘You just don’t understand my religion’ is not good enough By Julian Baggini, Monday 7 November 2011 07.00 EST … Terry Eagleton’s quip that reading Richard Dawkins on theology is like listening to someone “holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is The British Book of Birds” is a funny and memorable …
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