Nov 16 2011

We teach life, sir

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…  [more]

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Nov 13 2011

The revolution is in progress

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…  [more]

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Nov 13 2011

One of the oldest tricks

Why do the US media believe the worst about Iran?

By , 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…  [more]

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Nov 12 2011

Script and art and religion

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…  [more]

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Nov 12 2011

Kindred covens

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…  [more]

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Nov 11 2011

Conceptual claustrophobia

‘You just don’t understand my religion’ is not good enough

By , 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…  [more]

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Nov 05 2011

Nothing to fear

Shariah Law: The Five Things Every Non-Muslim (and Muslim) Should Know

By , 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…  [more]

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