At 41, Mohammad has led a varied life. He moved to Canada from Iran in 1988, 3 months before the Iran-Iraq war ended, having completed his military service. Now an artist-cum-curator of contemporary art, he reads Philosophy and Iranian studies….
Rage against Israel and rising support for Islamists in Egypt was page 1 in today’s Times. Incredibly, Commentary Magazine promptly poohpoohed the story out of its insistence that the Gaza operation, like the Iraq one before it, is just peachy-keen….
Leila Abu-Saba writes: Yes it’s amusing that you laugh at your own Orientalism – we all have our limitations. Part of becoming truly worldly is then expanding your rustic horizons. Because it doesn’t read as cute in the worldly world,…
I’m hell with Arab names. Sorry, I grew up with the same orientalism that Goldberg of Arabia did. But last night I published an allegation from the ingaza blog of a methodical Dier-Yassin like massacre in Zaytoun, which is evidently…
I try not to be cynical on this blog, as I try not to be cynical in life. Gets you nowhere. Lincoln told me so. Michael Scheuer wrote yesterday that Israel wants the Islamic world up in arms because it…
Holdout neocon Barry Rubin, at a Harvard website: this is not an issue of Gaza or of Israel alone. The great issue of our era, of our remaining lifetimes, is the battle between radical Islamismâwhether using the tactic of terrorism…
Israeli tanks have reportedly entered Gaza. Where are all the liberal internationalists? Another thing: They always lectured us about the need to support moderates over extremists in democratic societies. Where is the moderation in Israel?
between this latest suicide bombing in Pakistan–further destabilizing that country and terrifying my reform-minded Islamic friends– and the slaughter in Gaza?
Richard Witty, who has a sneaker for Chabad (so do I; I had fun in the Chabad House in suburban Philly), sends me this Haaretz column by the usually reliable Bradley Burston in which he is shocked by the Mumbai…