Middle East:
Regular readers will know that I rarely write about politics. But this post is an exception, as it is written in memory of my father, who died on this day 7 years ago. That's my father on the left,...
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Posted on November 13, 2007 6:34 PM • 18 Comments •
The vilification of Arabs in American popular culture serves an ideological purpose: the dehumanization of America's "enemy" in the "clash of civilisations". (Via Woman of Color Blog)...
Posted on October 9, 2007 3:38 PM • 13 Comments •
According to Pullitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the answer is yes....
Posted on September 30, 2007 3:26 PM • 8 Comments •
That's the cost of war in Iraq, according to a new analysis by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Public Policy lecturer Linda J. Bilmes.The money spent on one day of war in Iraq ($720 million) could provide healthcare...
Posted on September 22, 2007 1:46 PM • 4 Comments •
More on the cultural destruction of Iraq, or, as Robert Fisk calls it in this article from The Independent, the death of history....
Posted on September 19, 2007 2:30 AM • 0 Comments •
A new survey, released today by the ORB polling agency, suggests that around 1.2 million Iraqi civilians have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003. That's more than 4% of the country's population....
Posted on September 14, 2007 9:55 AM • 2 Comments •
On March 4th 1991, four days after the end of the Persian Gulf War, ground troops from the U.S. 37th Engineering Battalion destroyed large caches of weapons found at the Khamisiyah Ammunitions Storage Facility, a site approximately 25 square kilometres...
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Posted on September 12, 2007 5:00 PM • 1 Comments •
Erasing Memory: The Cultural Destruction of Iraq is a 28-minute film from the Archaeology Channel which documents the plundering of Iraqi archaeological sites and looting and destruction of priceless artifacts.This destruction of Iraq's heritage has been going on since the...
Posted on September 5, 2007 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Abdel Monim Mahmoud, an Egyptian journalist and blogger, has identified (in Arabic and English) a prison officer who allegedly tortured him for 13 days at a state security headquarters back in 2003. 27-year-old Mahmoud is a member of Ikhwan Muslimin...
Posted on September 3, 2007 5:50 PM • 2 Comments •
A caricature of me, aged about 4, by Bahgat Osman (1931-2001). During the 1960s and '70s, Osman was Egypt's most outstanding political cartoonist. He was a close friend of my father's, and I have vivid memories of him from...
Posted on August 30, 2007 3:12 PM • 4 Comments •
