Haitham Sabbah's Archive

Clash of civilisations? Jürgen Todenhöfer’s corrective

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If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Earlier this year an extensive advertorial was published in The New York Times by author Jürgen Todenhöfer, based on his book Why Do You Kill Zaid?
The author has also [...]

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A Modern Parable For The Middle East

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Jones, a wealthy financier, had on many occasion in the good old days - when trains were flourishing and coaches were the last word in technological luxury - crossed the continent by Pullman. He was well known and well served and was accustomed to every convenience, particularly when dining. Imagine his exasperation, then, when it [...]

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‘Art Attack’: meet the new creative dissenters for Palestine

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Artist Peter Kennard meets members of a new generation of artistic dissenters in a movement spearheaded by artist Banksy, whose art has featured in Occupied Palestine as well as his native UK.
Art attack
by Peter Kennard | New Statesman | 17 January 2008 (cross-posted at peoplesgeography.com)
Banksy attracts the press attention, but around him is an increasingly [...]

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Franklin Lamb: Remembering Sabra-Shatilla–a Letter to Janet

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I was very moved by this profoundly affecting piece from Franklin Lamb. He not only offers excellent reflection of this timely marker of the 25th anniversary of the terrible massacre of Palestinians at Sabra-Shatilla in Lebanon, but generously and courageously shares his personal experience. For him, this was a political massacre compounded by the very [...]

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Why Palestine Matters By Roger H. Lieberman

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Thanks as well as a hat tip to the great ladies at Jordan Journals for making this article available. (Unless you have a print subscription to the Jordan Times, this article is not freely available online, the only other site that has it requires subscription). Cross-posted at Reclaiming Space at http://peoplesgeography.com by Ann El [...]

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