Two people who should have met
Daniel Pearl and Walid al-Saqqaf would have enjoyed furthering Muslim-Jewish dialogue in, say, some juice bar in Tehran with Bob Dylan playing.
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Hamilton Spectator
Christians must recognize injustices in Palestine
I treat most things said here in Yemen about Jews with skepticism. The latest gem came from a Yemeni colleague ranting, in an unpublished column, about the so-called Jewish conspiracy. He cited the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, purportedly Jewish texts from the late 1800s, describing Jewish plans to enslave the world.
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Sadly, Yemeni men fear women
Chronic illiteracy in Yemen reflects the belief that teaching a woman to read will empower her at the expense of men.
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Life is like a hazy mirror
We’ll never know why some parts of the human family get more than their share of natural disasters such as tsunamis.
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Elizabeth to Santa: sing every day
Merry Christmas, don’t get too busy, and remember: don’t eat too many cookies, because you still have to get around next year.
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America enters a minefield
I hate politics. You can’t trust anyone. I mean, if I was Maqtada Al-Sadr, the dangerously political Shiite cleric who’s jostling for position in Iraq now, I wouldn’t trust my grandmother.
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Independent reasoning is at stake
If we are in a so-called war of civilizations, the biggest battlefields may not be in places like Iraq but in the classroom.
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Press freedom a bitter battle in Third World
Ever wonder why you don’t live in a George Orwell novel, a place where up is down if the right person says it’s so; a place that sooner or later, like a rotten empire, will always implode under the weight of its own self-deceit?
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