Category: The Middle East

Culture warrior made flesh

Rick Santorum: the apostle of America’s right By Paul Harris, Saturday 25 February 2012 … Few American presidential campaigns have ever adopted a totem as unlikely as the sweater vest. But Rick Santorum, the far-right social conservative now topping national polls in the Republican presidential nomination race, has embraced the unfashionable, dorky item of sleeveless …

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This is the price for our freedom

My husband, Khadar Adnan, has shed a light on Israel’s disregard for human rights By Randa Musa, Wednesday 22 February 2012 08.30 EST … The name of my husband, Khadar Adnan, has now become known across the world. Four months ago he was unknown outside our homeland, Palestine. His hunger strike of 66 days has …

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Might as well leave them to their fate

‘In Homs we are all wading in blood’ By Jonathan Littell, Tuesday 21 February 2012 15.29 EST … The corpse, already waxy, wrapped in its shroud, a crown of plastic flowers around its head, lies in a corner of the mosque. Kneeling next to the coffin, a boy in tears, his brother, strokes his face …

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They didn’t break my bones

Homs, city of torture By Jonathan Littell, Monday 20 February 2012 18.50 EST … In Bashar al-Assad‘s Syria, it is not just forbidden to speak, demonstrate and protest: it is also forbidden both to give medical treatment, and to receive treatment yourself. Since the beginning of the uprising, the regime has been waging a merciless war …

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Where the Litani River runs

House of Stone By Anthony Shadid, published February 18, 2012 … The America that drew my family was 7,000 miles from where they started, in old Marjayoun, in what is now Lebanon. My aunts and uncles, grandparents and great-grandparents, were part of a century-long wave of migration that occurred as the Ottoman Empire crumbled, then …

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Rebuilding the house of Isber Shadid

Anthony Shadid yearned for home By Jefferson Morley, Friday, Feb 17, 2012 5:42 PM 12:45:46 CST … Anthony’s Shadid’s now unbearably poignant book, “House of Stone,” opens with a scene of carnage that will be familiar to anyone who read his coverage of the wars of  the Middle East. As a reporter for the Washington …

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Intimidate and paralyse, choke and divert

False accusations of antisemitism desensitise us to the real thing By Rachel Shabi, Friday 17 February 2012 09.11 EST … She hasn’t yet filled the post or filed a single line of copy, but the incoming New York Times correspondent for Jerusalem has already been judged. And it’s damning. Apparently, soon-to-be bureau chief Jodi Rudoren …

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