Teddy Muhammad
Thursday November 29, 2007
It may be--it should be--shocking that a British teacher in the Sudan is imprisoned, vilified, threatened with flogging and finally deported for having had the temerity to let her second-grade ... Read More
A Tale of Two Rapes
Tuesday November 27, 2007
About 18 months ago in Qaif, a Saudi Arabian city in the eastern part of the country, a 19-year-old woman ran into an old boyfriend who’d promised to give her ... Read More
The Annapolis Summit: Israelis and Palestinians Shoot for the Moon
Sunday November 25, 2007
On Tuesday, President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will host a one-day international conference in Annapolis, Md., aimed at creating an independent Palestinian state living peacefully with Israel. ... Read More
John McCain, Interventionist
Friday November 23, 2007
John McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona and one of eight major GOP candidates for the U.S. presidency, doesn't speak Arabic. But at least he's calling on top military brass ... Read More
Lebanon on "the Brink of an Abyss"
Monday November 19, 2007
Midnight Friday. That's Lebanon's deadline to decide on a successor to President Emile Lahoud. The Lebanese Parliament's 128 members are scheduled to meet on Wednesday, after failing twice already this ... Read More
Clinton, Giuliani and the Middle East
Friday November 16, 2007
She wants to negotiate with Palestinians. He doesn't. She wants a Pentagon withdrawal plan from Iraq within 60 days of taking office. He wants open-ended wars ion Iraq and Afghanistan, ... Read More
Sham Elections in Jordan
Thursday November 15, 2007
Jordan is one of the Middle East's standard authoritarian, pro-American regimes: so pro-American that it welcomes inmates from the Bush administration's extraordinary rendition program to its notoriously bleak prisons for ... Read More
Maya Angelou in Egypt
Tuesday November 13, 2007
In The Heart of a Woman, the fourth volume of her autobiography, Maya Angelou is, thirtysomething, married to a vain, fat, philandering African freedom fighter from South Africa called Vus ... Read More
Benazir Bhutto Unveiled
Monday November 12, 2007
It's an old story for Benazir Bhutto. House arrest. Detention. Imprisonment. Threat of detention. Exile, internal or external. The once and future prime minister of Pakistan (like her late father ... Read More
Iraq: The Deadliest Year
Tuesday November 6, 2007
The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction is the U.S. federal government’s oversight agency for reconstruction in Iraq. It has a tiny staff — 38-odd individuals, responsible for tracking the ... Read More
Pervez Musharraf Lincoln
Monday November 5, 2007
It isn't enough that Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president, general and twice-over coup master, has just suspended Pakistan's Constitution, fired 12 of the nation's 17 judges, including the popular chief ... Read More
Behind Charlotte Simmons' Burqah: What Bush Reads
Thursday November 1, 2007
A little less than two years ago, when President Bush was navigating the latest tumbles in his approval ratings (compliments of his Pet Goat-like reaction to Hurricane Katrina) and the ... Read More