A few days ago, I left Gaza with Medea Benjamin (above, as we came through the Sinai) and four other members of her Code Pink delegations. I wasn’t really able to write about Gaza while I was there. We had…
[Cairo] I’m about to go to the airport so I can go home and become a broken record about Gaza. I spent the evening with Egyptian friends and when I woke up this morning I realized how much of my…
Myself I was impressed by Obama’s offering himself to the Muslim world as a leader, the supple use of the Koran and of Islamic teaching, the embrace of his own Muslim background, and the willingness to dive into women’s freedom….
I’m in Cairo, about to walk across town to see my president address the Muslim world. I know there’s a lot of cynicism and hopelessness about this speech. Not here. I think my president knows exactly what’s going on. Mr….
It’s Monday night in Egypt. We are in El-Arish, a resort town about 20 minutes from the Gaza border, where we will go first thing tomorrow morning. I’m with a group of 13 activists and humanitarians mostly from New York,…
I walked around Cairo yesterday jetlagged and overwhelmed by cultural difference. The plane takes nearly twice as long to get here as it does to England. We’re hundreds of miles east of Istanbul, and it sure feels like the orient….
James North writes: Mahmood Mamdani surprised me during our recent talk in his office up at Columbia University; he said no one at all from the Darfur solidarity movement has approached him to discuss his just-published Saviors and Survivors, (aside…
The arrests in the synagogue/jihad case in New York are terrifying, of course; and a reminder that anti-Semitism is a live force even in the U.S. Also a reminder that the Palestinian issue is likely to be deeply disruptive in…