By James North More current issues have pushed Darfur to the sidelines for now, but here’s a fascinating letter in the Financial Times from a southern Sudanese, John Achiek Deng. He is quite persuasive when he says: “In southern Sudan,…
One of the amazing things about the invasion of Iraq is that not only was it charted by neoconservatives, many of them Zionists who sought to secure Israel, but that unconsciously or not, these folks inhaled the Israeli view of…
My friend Steve F. has challenged me re Arab intolerance: The chief of Saudi Arabia’s highest tribunal has issued an edict that television station owners should be killed over “immoral” programming. In the article is also a rather humorous statement…
“Obsession,’ the fear-mongering movie produced by a Canadian-Israeli that suggests that Islam is trying to defeat the west and it’s 1938 all over again, costs $14.95 from its website. But it is being distributed free in copies of the New…
An amazing piece of reporting in The National about the Qubeisiat, a secretive women’s movement inside Islamic fundamentalism that has gained a foothold in secular Syria and is convincing young women to put on the hijab. Author Rhonda Roumani is…
My friend Steve F criticizes my blog: Phil: On your blog, you discuss one side’s distasteful actions without context or its rationale. Israel was not formed to be an ugly aggressor. Its actions have been shaped by its enemies’ actions,…
Another in the series, How to Think About Darfur, by James North: Here’s a link to the most important single magazine article I have read over at least the past 5 years; it appeared in the British publication Prospect. Bartle…
I love The National, the new Abu Dhabi paper. It’s so sophisticated. Maybe the Arab world is full of dictatorships, and women have no freedom, but the National is breaking paradigms. Today they have a memoir of Mahmoud Darwish by…
Another in a series, “How to Think About Darfur,” by James North When I started looking into Darfur, I said right at the start that I was suspicious that the solidarity movement, or at least some part of it, was…