… due, not to politicized censorship, but outstanding unpaid debts. Hopefully it will soon be revived. I would be on the lookout for a facebook group soliciting donations.
… and that's just one part of the Carnegie Endowment's mini-anthology of commentary from its scholars and affiliates on the election. An excerpt from al-Ghitany's piece: It took me many years to realize that human civilization from all corners of the world is essential for mankind and its existence. It also took me time to […]
I have to admit, at first I assumed that this IRIN report was simply quoting someone making up an absurd sounding number to make a point about inflation in Zimbabwe. But it turns out that while the last official figure was 231-million percent, the real figures are much higher: In the absence of credible official […]
A cursory glance at the National's Arabic News Digest for today sends that message, at least.
Obama appoints George Mitchell to be the United States’ envoy to Israel and Palestine. Time magazine has a wonderful profile of him, including quotes; this one is especially good: “Please remember that it is possible for an American to disagree with you on aid to the Contras and still love God, and still love this […]
A gloriously nostalgic little photo collection in today's Guardian looks back on David Bowie's 1973 visit to the USSR. “We drank cheap riesling wine and beer (peeva) with a bunch of soldiers we met the night before. They were friendly and inquisitive as to what life was like in the west, when we asked them […]
Two events, one just passed, one pending, reveals the depths of schisms in Somalia. The first of these is the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces from Somali territory. Normally outside troops only exacerbate conflicts in Africa, and Ethiopia's presence has been a mixed blessing to say the least. Nonetheless, the departure of the Ethiopian military has […]
Inspired by the moral profligacy of Dilbert, I’d like to shamelessly plug my recently published article in the New York Moon, the journal of ideas and flaneurism, about the history of a Russian reservoir. It is surely set to become the Doctor Zhivago of hallucinatory post-communist Russian reservoir narratives.
All things Afghanistan today: US Assistant Secretary Boucher went into the ‘Kleig Lights’ early this year in front to the press in Kabul to discuss, you guessed it, all things Afghanistan. He went over US-Pakistan relations, Afghanistan-Pakistan relations, troop deployment strategy, Obama and the US's committment to the nation, the Taliban's resurgence and governance in […]
WASHINGTON / ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: Hillary Clinton, on her first day as the secretary of state, telephoned President Asif Ali Zardari and told him that the Obama administration was appointing a special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. "It was a touch-base meeting," said a senior diplomat aware of the conversation. "She felt it's necessary to […]
South Africa will host the heads of state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) members next week to discuss the Zimbabwe crisis in hopes of finding a way to get talks started again. As a result Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change has announced that it will not meet with Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF before […]
At The Atlantic online Jennie Rothenberg Griz has an interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu largely about Barack Obama, the United States, and the world that is well worth reading.
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