Editor’s Note: Ali Hili, from the gay rights group Iraqi LGBT [1], received a standing ovation from 250 delegates when he addressed the Faith, Homophobia and Human Rights conference in London in February. The conference had the support of 52 …
The 2003 toppling of Saddam Hussein’s Baath regime and the occupation of Iraq by Allied Coalition Forces has served to generate a good deal of interest in Iraqi history. As a result, in 2005 Saqi reissued Abbas Shiblak’s 1986 study …
When he reviewed Salman Rushdie’s novel Shalimar the Clown for the New Yorker last year, John Updike praised Rushdie for ‘animat[ing] Islam’s tenacious rage with faces and life stories.’ In Rushdie’s book, the eponymous protagonist, a Kashmiri circus performer, is …
Issue 7 of Democratiya is dominated by writing about the State of Israel, the threat of terrorism, and the future of progressive internationalism. Before 1948 there were 800,000 Jews living in Arab countries, today there are perhaps 8,000. Rayyan Al-Shawaf …
… the past is all we know, the future is always obscured by cloud, we hack our way through it towards nowhere we know, and whenever we tire of the endless exploration, as well we might, whenever life seems absurdly …
A quarter century ago, I stood with an American friend at a peace rally in Tel- Aviv. We were both veterans of the anti-Vietnam war movement, and my friend commented how similar had been the trajectories of both the American …
It is not surprising that Jacqueline Rose is unhappy with my review of her book (‘The Caricature of Zion,’ Democratiya, September 2006). Given the criticisms that I bring against the book, this is to be expected. Unfortunately, her response does …
The external facts of Zarqawi’s life are easily told. The man born Ahmad Fadil Nazzal Al-Khalayleh was born in Zarqa on the edge of Amman, Jordan on 20 October 1966 (not, incidentally, 1968, as it states on the back cover …
When Hitler and Goebbels talk of organising Europe, when the French ‘collaborators’ echo their words, we know what they mean and what they want. In present realities their European Order is nothing but the utilisation of all European resources, the …
In 2004, when asked about the state of his country, an ordinary Burundian is known to have said, ‘we can’t eat the constitution.’ Five years after the fall of the Taliban, the same sentiment echoes across Afghanistan. On the one …
There is an old Jewish joke about two Yeshiva students who go to the rabbi to settle a heated legal dispute over which they have been arguing all day. Max, the first student, offers cogent theoretical and pragmatic arguments that …
Editors: Mansour Osanloo, the President of the Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed) was arrested by plain clothes agents, who refused to show any identification or arrest warrants, on Sunday, November 19, 2006 while …
Paul Kennedy does not shy away from large subjects. He is the author of, among many other works, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, which charted Europe’s extraordinary ascendancy …
This book is based on a 2004 conference organized jointly by the New America Foundation and the Center on Law and Security at New York University Law School, and it makes available the views of the 24 experts on al-Qaeda …
Seas of ink have been spilled on the subject of the marginality of the American left. But Michael Moore is anything but marginal. He has gained a level of household recognition that Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn can only dream …
