Camilla Effect one big yawn
Clearly the marriage gods were telling me something. Your marriage is something very noble. Don’t blow it. Because, yes, it also has the potential to burst into flames.
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Newspaper columns
In Africa, the bicycle rules
It not only returns life to its natural pace, but the bicycle is the great leveller.
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The everyday feel of death
In Uganda, the land has uncommon beauty, and life has its own strange mix of dark memories of killings, talk of restorative justice, and forgiveness.
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Dubai is on a roll
Booming, oil-rich city is luring outsiders. That s likely why it feels so hollow.
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Biblical images on Sana’a’s streets
The feet of ‘ragged men’, Vincent Van Gogh and the story of the prodigal son all come to mind as Easter dawns in Yemen.
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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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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 The latest gem came from a Yemeni colleague ranting, in an unpublished column, about the so-called Jewish conspiracy.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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