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Monday, 13 Aug, 2012
America’s public television network, sanctuary for the nation’s dwindling reserve of thinking individuals, is re-broadcasting Ken Burns’ sweeping documentary of World War II. “The War,” as the film is called, is uniquely Burns, shaped as it is by the personal reflections of men and women who saw combat or manned the homefront. Their stories animate the horror and anxiety of war better than any textbook.
Surprisingly, one sentiment that emerges from the interviews is nostalgia. Despi...
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Wednesday, 1 Aug, 2012
In late 1999 I spent a day reporting in the West Bank from a delivery truck operated by Al-Haya Food Industries, a venerable Palestinian meat company. My escorts were Halil Masaud and Iyad Al-Amleh, the truck’s two-man crew, and together we weaved our way to their appointed rounds along the notoriously dangerous Fire Valley Road.
My purpose was to convey to readers how Israeli occupation subverts the Palestinian economy along with the rest of its society. Had they been given the choice, H...
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Friday, 18 May, 2012
The campaign for the presidential elections in Egypt is entering its final stages, with the poll in Egypt scheduled for the 23 and 24 of May, with a run-off in mid-June if nece...
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Monday, 20 Feb, 2012
In early February, a senior official of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood warned that without a global effort to save Egypt’s troubled economy, the largely peaceful revolution tha...
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Stephen Glain is an American veteran, not of wars or military incursions, but of more than twenty years’ experience as a foreign correspondent and intrepid journalist. Stationed ...
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