Tag: Middle East
Lara Baladi: Alone, Together
January 2013A video artist draws on news footage, historical videos, Fela Kuti, Slavoj Žižek, Lewis Carroll, and others to reflect on Tahrir Square two years after #Jan25.
Richard Falk: An Early Assessment of the Gaza Ceasefire
November 2012The recent Gaza ceasefire may be a turning point in the long Israeli-Palestinian struggle.
Nora Connor: The Myth of the Muslim Tide and the Search for the Moderate
September 2012Doug Saunders’s new book fights fears about “the Islamization of America” with historical and sociological fact, but slippery terminology gets in the way.
Nick Turse: Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza
September 2012Despite years of talk about American withdrawal from Afghanistan, the number of military bases there has steadily expanded.
Justin Elliott: Watergate Journalist Carl Bernstein Spoke at Event Supporting Iranian ‘Terrorist’ Group
September 2012Bernstein was paid $12,000 for remarks in which he challenged the State Department to show evidence the Mujahadin-e Khalq should still be designated a terrorist organization.
Tom Engelhardt: Mission Failure: Afghanistan
August 2012A message written in blood that no one wants to hear.
Maurice Chammah: Egypt’s Military Kitsch
July 2012As Egypt’s first civilian president assumes his role, it’s unclear how much political power the nation’s generals will wield.
Randa Jarrar: Imagining Myself in Palestine
May 2012On a recent trip to Israel, Randa Jarrar gets detained, denied entry, and sent to the “Arab Room.”
Richard Falk: Charles Taylor and Selective Criminal Accountability
May 2012While the United States advocates for international criminal justice, it may be ignoring human rights abuses closer to home.
Rafia Zakaria: The Retired Terrorist
May 2012Before Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, he was locked in a house for five months with three wives and over a dozen children.
Beena Sarwar: A Journalist’s View of Pakistan (Alternative Radio Podcast)
May 2012Beena Sarwar on the “hornet’s nest” of modern Pakistan.
Gal Beckerman: The DNA of the Israeli-American Jewish Relationship
March 2012Q&A with the recent winner of the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
Richard Falk: The Ordeal of Hana Shalabi
March 2012Hana Shalabi continues her historic hunger strike to protest abuse that she experienced and her objections to the Israeli practice of prolonged detention without charges, without trial.
From Habibi, a graphic novel
September 2011Zam, a refugee slave, has become separated from Dodola. He searches the desert and the city to find her. Starving and desperate, he meets a eunuch. . .
Meakin Armstrong: Egypt and the American Fever Dream
February 2011For over 30 years, we gave Egypt the shaft, because it was in our national interest to do so. Now it’s time for Egypt to find out where its own interests are, without a strongman leading the way. The country has a difficult and terrible road to walk.
Nazi Sheikhs
May 2010The polemicist discusses Tariq Ramadan’s love of extremist sheikhs, Islamism’s ties to Hitler, and the intellectual confusion of liberal journalists.
Coming to Amreeka
September 2009The filmmaker on her feel-good (sort of) movie, Palestinians in the Windy City, and how personal experiences can trump political arguments.
