Two solitudes
The western and Islamic worlds clearly don’t understand one another, as the botched Newsweek report on the Koran clearly shows.
East and West
In Africa, the bicycle rules
It not only returns life to its natural pace, but the bicycle is the great leveller.
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.
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 The latest gem came from a Yemeni colleague ranting, in an unpublished column, about the so-called Jewish conspiracy.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.