Gaza Women Recount Conflict
Eman Mohammed has published a report comprising interviews with female survivors of the conflict in Gaza earlier this year. Their accounts are …
Monthly Archives: September 2009
The Schnora Who Indulges in Fucha
After wriggling out of a mind-bogglingly tedious training class this morning – in which the trainer informed me that the …
Honor Killings in the Italian Islamic Community
The notion of honor killings being culturally entrenched has been reaffirmed by the recent murder of a young woman in …
Al-Taimuriya’s Pledge for Womankind
Is this not beautiful? I challenge my destiny, my time I challenge the human eye I will sneer at ridiculous …
Academic Lewdness 101
My initial reaction to Professor Terence Kealey’s expostulations in the Times Higher Education Magazine was ‘ugh’. Articulation gained, it became …
Another Day, Another Round of IDF Brutality
These events are becoming far too common to ignore, this time in East Jerusalem: The Military Police are investigating the …
Le Fil: Breaking Boundaries in Tunisia
Once upon a time I was a movie buff – roughly between 1997 and 2000 -subscribing to Empire and gathering …
“Settlement Psychosis”
The new catch-all term for objections to the illegal spread of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. A few weeks ago …
Tel Aviv: No to “Minority Men”
After the admirable cohesion displayed in Virginia, it’s disappointing to follow up with a much less tolerant account of interfaith …
The Goldstone Report: Anti-Israel or Merely Objective
Not everyone is au fait with the findings of The Goldstone Report: In an attempt to balance the report, the …
