Archive for March, 2011
by James M. Wall On March 23, the Chicago Tribune presented one of its periodic reports on overseas travel by Chicago area members of the US Congress. The country most often visited? Israel. The Tribune‘s interest was primarily on what motivated the trips. Were they junkets to resorts or would something really be learned by actually […]
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by James M. Wall In an early scene from the new motion picture Miral, the school principal Hind Husseini, tells a group of teenage Palestinian girls that “an uprising some people call an intifada has started”. Miral whispers to a student next to her: “It means ‘stand up straight’”. Which is precisely what Miral does […]
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by James M. Wall In 1968, American civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin wrote, “We would be mistaken to think that the only desires of young Negroes today are to have a job, to have a decent house, to be well educated, to have medical care. All these things are very important, but deeper and more […]
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by James M. Wall Professor Fawaz A. Gerges explained why Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu tried to use his considerable political muscle in a failed effort to keep Hosni Mubarak in power. Gerges, who teaches Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, described the Arab uprising for BBC New Middle […]
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