Middle East | Middle East
May.07.2013
"Within The Eye of The Storm" is an award-winning documentary by Shelley Hermon. The Sundance Film Institute calls it "a unique, beautiful story filled with love and hope."
Rami Elhanan is a former Israeli soldier whose young daughter was killed by a suicide bomber.
Bassam Aramin is a former...
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Apr.23.2013
Arirang: The Bamboo Connection is no longer in print. The 488 page adventure novel by D. K. Christi is only available in ebook format at Amazon.com Kindle.
The ebook may be downloaded for reading at any computer device in addition to Kindles and ereaders. The print copy was...
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Apr.22.2013
Like most Americans, I’m terrible at learning languages. I’ve studied several, but only varying amounts of each language stuck. Of course, I should’ve started when I was a small child, but elementary schools didn’t teach languages then...
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Apr.16.2013
Twenty years after the events portrayed in the movie “Argo,” I set foot in Tehran for the first time and began almost a month of exploring the complex, sometimes surprising, country of Iran. We were experienced travelers who had...
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Feb.09.2013
Are you writing a crime story set in Kenya? A romance set in Rwanda? A historical piece set in Senegal, Argentina or just about anywhere else?
I have literate, observant, well-spoken friends all over the globe who can tell you what bus your protagonist would take to get from downtown Dakar to the...
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Feb.08.2013
Iraq in Turmoil by Yousseff H. Aboul-Enein is a synthesis of key passages in an eight volume work entitled, Social Glimpses of Iraqi Modern History by Dr. Ali al-Wardi. Although this is not a long book (173 pages) I wouldn’t recommend anyone other than specialists (academic or military) read...
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Jan.28.2013
I've been very happy to see a bunch of Arabic translation requests in my traffic logs for my earlier post "My Dream for Egypt." So to make it a little easier for people, I'm posting the translation (it's from Google Translate, and I don't speak a word of Arabic myself, so obviously...
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Jan.15.2013
From Feb. 10, 2011, but I think still applicable:
This is a fantasy. I know that. So please don't write in telling me "it will never happen" or "the Egyptians aren't anarchists", etc. I know it's probably not going to happen. I'm not saying it's going to happen. I'm...
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Jan.03.2013
My man Tamim Ansary on Afghanistan and his new book Game Without Rules
http://huff.to/VlmuYv
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Dec.15.2012
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New America Media, News Analysis, Andrew Lam, Posted: Dec 17, 2012
Five years ago the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) described the Iraqi refugee crisis as “the largest long-term population movement in the Middle East since the displacement of Palestinians...
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