“After throwing a shoe at the US Consulate in Durban today to wish the Bush regime good riddance, I remind myself that this sentiment of disgust has occurred repeatedly. In 1987, it was Reagan in the White House, tomorrow it will be Obama, but the problem is not the person, it is the system.” — […]
Subjects Archives: Media
Media, Communications, and Literature
Remembering Egypt
“Egypt is playing a tawdry role in the current agony of the Palestinians; but it is not new, sadly.” — Dennis Brutus Remembering Egypt Solitary I walked the sands beside the Pyramids hot soil beneath my feet: ageless the cloudless skies aeons above invisible stars: men laboured in dusty rags parched reeds wilted in shallows […]
Israeli Citizens Calling upon International Community to Stop Israel
Among the signatories are some very well-known artists, musicians, and writers such as Dror Burstein, Ala Hlehel, Yitzhak Laor, Yehudith Levin, Avi Mograbi, Michal Naaman, Salman Natour, Judd Ne’eman, Aharon Shabtay, and Arik Shapira (Israel Prize Laureate) and university professors such as Yossef Grodginski, Uri Hadar, Hannan Hever, Orly Lubin, Adi Ophir, Yehuda Shenhav, and […]
Open Letter to Israeli Soldiers
Introduction Please sign the following statement, which we hope to be able to publish soon in Israeli newspapers. Donations to help pay for publication can be sent via PayPal by clicking here. We encourage organizations to sign by sending us email. Jews Call on Israeli Soldiers to Stop War Crimes We Jews in the […]
Ashura
Nohe These days, in Tehran, you see people from all walks of life taking part in mourning ceremonies in one way or another. You see young people wearing jeans and/or other types of western gear and brands listening to MP3 or MP4 playing “nohe.” “Nohe” is a type of mourning music, melancholic but also […]
Eagle Feather
I see you being dropped off. I stop the movement of my scope and then I center the crosshairs on you . . . and on you waving the driver goodbye. He drives away . . . leaving you behind at the place where three roads meet, behind the date grove on the other […]
Two Big Protests in Israel against the Massacre in Gaza
Tomorrow (Saturday, January 3, 2009), two big protests will be held in Israel The killing in Gaza continues. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, thousands injured, air strikes have caused utter devastation, and entire families are left homeless. Civilians in the south of Israel are being held captive by a government which lies to them […]
Still the Sirens
Introduction The sirens of oppression I referred to in my first collection (1963) were still present in South Africa in 1989, as they seem to be as well in Gaza in 2009 thanks to Israel’s bombing spree. […]
Greek Demo Graphics
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Protest in Athens, 18.12.2008
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An Open Letter: Come Occupy a Building with Us . . . Now
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Six Prominent American Freethinkers
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“I Think We Agree, the Past Is Over”
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Rediscovering Hubert Harrison
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Miss USA
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US Citizen Diplomats Arrive in Iran, Invited by Ahmadinejad
In an effort to establish peaceful diplomacy with the government and people of Iran, and to model for the new Obama administration the power of cooperative good will, three highly regarded American peace makers have ventured to Iran. CodePink cofounders, Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, along with former Army Colonel and decorated Foreign Service […]
Ferment and Fetters in the Study of Kurdish Nationalism
Hakan Ozoglu. Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. xv + 186 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7914-5993-5. Identifying Kurdish nationalism as “one of the most explosive and critical predicaments in the Middle East,” the author notes that “the subject regrettably […]
Somalia, the Third Front Revisited
President Bush has oft stated that history will be the rightful judge of his legacy. Some academics, such as John Lewis Gaddis and Fareed Zakaria, have already begun early revisions to the Bush years. But as historians mark the final score, they must not omit a serious examination of the administration’s policies in Somalia, […]
Humanity’s Highest Need?The Politics of Art and Culture in Syria
miriam cooke. Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. vii + 208 pp. Illustrations. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4016-4; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4035-5. To live and do research in Syria is to confront contradictions at almost every turn. In a repressive state, artists not only create works that are […]
Nationalism, Gender, and Politics in Egypt
Beth Baron. Egypt As a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 292 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-23857-2. In Egypt as a Woman Beth Baron explores the connections between Egyptian nationalism, gendered images and discourses of the nation, and the politics of elite Egyptian women from the late nineteenth […]
