By Eli Valley, March 02, 2012 … With nods to Stanley Kubrick and Cecil B. DeMille, the Forward’s artist in residence Eli Valley makes a choose-your-own adventure comic for Iran pundits. … http://forward.com/articles/151920/
Category: The Middle East
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Feb 25 2012
Whatever happens will come too late
Why the West pussyfoots around Assad By Paul Vallely, Sunday 26 February 2012 … Some people are just unlucky. They get born in the wrong place. Like the Syrian city of Homs, where at least 1,770 people have been killed since government troops began their relentless bombardment of the city three weeks ago. Over the …
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Feb 25 2012
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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Feb 22 2012
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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Feb 21 2012
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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Feb 21 2012
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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Feb 19 2012
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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