Nov 18 2011
Why the West is Demonizing Iran By Stuart Littlewood, November 17, 2011 … When new recruits join British Petroleum (BP) they are fed romantic tales about how the company came into being. William Knox D’Arcy, a Devon man, studied law and, after emigrating to Australia, made a fortune from the Mount Morgan gold-mining operations in …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/11/18/company-came/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/11/16/we-teach-life-sir/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/11/13/the-revolution-is-in-progress/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/11/13/one-of-the-oldest-tricks/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/11/12/script-and-art-and-religion/
Nov 05 2011
Shariah Law: The Five Things Every Non-Muslim (and Muslim) Should Know By Qasim Rashid, 11/4/11 10:15 AM ET … 1. What does Shariah mean? Shariah is the law of the Qur’an and literally means “A path to life giving water.” In fact, the word Yarrah (i.e. the root of the Hebrew word Torah) means precisely …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/11/05/nothing-to-fear/
Nov 04 2011
Apartheid and the occupation of Palestine By John Dugard, 04 Nov 2011 09:00 … This week, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will consider the question of whether Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) constitute the crime of apartheid within the meaning of the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/11/04/struck-by-the-similarities/
