Censorship in Gambia
Nothing cries “guilt!” more than the sentencing of journalists to two years jail time following a report on the unsolved …
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Fou et Formidable: The Lost Fingers
More recently I have become addicted to the Radio France’s fip, which provides a splendid melange of the world’s most …
Censorship, Detention and Rape: How Low Can It Go?
Very, it seems: If (Mirhossein) Mousavi, (Mehdi) Karoubi and (former president Mohammad) Khatami are main suspects behind the soft revolution …
Israel and Jordan: Sweatshop Bedfellows
As the following report observes, mention sweatshops and it is not the Middle East that immediately springs to mind – …
Gog and Magog Made Me Do It
It’s still cringe-worthy to recall that the utterer of these words was elected to lead any nation, let alone one …
Update: Heba’s Homecoming
Providing the sources are correct, Heba Najeeb touched down in Cairo earlier this evening. 1,000 mabrook for Heba – but …
Raqs Sharqi: Empowerment, Not Exploitation
Raqs sharqi. Oriental dance. Belly-dancing – this is the dance that I love, whether it is being performed, taught, or …
Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears A Presidency
And so it continues to the next stage: first violent protest, now paranoid prosecution. Never has so unlikely a gaggle …
Berlusconi, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways…
Number 1,964: I don’t owe my family any apology, says defiant Silvio Berlusconi The Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, insisted …
The Indomitable Hanouns
Earlier this week I posted on the eviction of a number of families from the Sheikh Jarrah area of Jerusalem, …
