http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402093_pf.html At Harvard, the star of Arabic A is a girl named Maha. Maha Muhammed Abulaal, to be precise. She’s the pouty protagonist in the melodrama that runs throughout “Al-Kitaab,” the standard beginning text in Arabic classes at Harvard and…
read morehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/18/do1801.xml On Monday, Gordon Brown will become the first Prime Minister to address the Knesset. The occasion reflects the fact that Israel’s parliamentary tradition was inspired by Britain. It is fitting that, 150 years after the first Jewish MP took…
read morehttp://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/artikel/103/186514/ Die Historikerin Diana Pinto spricht über die Ängste französischer Juden, extremistische Imame und religiöse Bandenkriege in Paris. Seit vor einiger Zeit ein jüdischer Jugendlicher in Paris bewusstlos geschlagen wurde, sind viele Franzosen beunruhigt. Sie fragen sich, wie verbreitet Antisemitismus…
read morehttp://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/07/15/indictment_for_genocide/ WHEN THE chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court presented evidence yesterday in support of an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, he touched off a clash between two principles. The bedrock of the ICC is…
read morehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB121617393073456841.html The International Criminal Court’s decision to seek an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar Bashir is being hailed in the usual places as a landmark in the effort to stop the bloodshed in Darfur. In fact, the indictment is…
read morehttp://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTc5YzYyMDI4MTE3ZTU0ZTE4MWYzMzI5NmMxZDdiMjU = For more than a decade, the allocation of hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. funded doctoral and post-doctoral grants on Palestinian issues has been decided by a group of Middle Eastern-studies professors that includes some of the…
read morehttp://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/64/11011+berlin+geschichten+aus+dem+reichstag/80230/der+iran+und+der+9+juli Am 9. Juli 1999 demonstrierten iranische Studenten für Pressefreiheit, Demokratie und Menschenrechte. Die Demonstrationen wurden brutal niedergeschlagen. Im Vorfeld des 9. Juli 2008 herrschte ein Klima der Angst und des Schreckens an den Universitäten. Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad wurde bei den…
read morehttp://www.meriajournal.com/en/asp/journal/2008/june/badran/index.asp Lebanon’s civil war was a complex, multisided battle whose implications still shape the country’s politics today. This article analyzes the forces involved domestically and the course of the war, drawing lessons that apply to the contemporary situation in Lebanon.…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=253&PID=0&IID=2312&TTL=From_Durban_I_to_Durban_II:_Preventing_Poisonous_Anti-Semitism The World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban in 2001 quickly became a new form of Passion Play with the Palestinian people as the victim and the Jewish state of Israel as the crucifier.…
read morehttp://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=93892 Saudi Arabia has been a strategic ally of the United States for more than 60 years. Despite occasional differences, Riyadh was a firm – and generous – partner in the implementation of American policy during the Cold War and…
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