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Syria Threatening Al Jazeera Staff’s Families
The Syrian regime has levied threats against the families of Al Jazeera personnel in Doha and Syria. Even for Syria, this is a new low.
Iran and Israel Get Journalist-Arrest Happy
A thought criminal at work? Right after releasing Iranian-American reporter Roxana Saberi, Iranian authorities continued their war on wordsmiths by arresting two more journalists, bringing the total number of journalists and bloggers currently held in Iran to 15, including two women. Six of them were nabbed earlier this month. According to the group Reporters Without [...]
Saberi’s Release & its Implications for US-Iran Relations
In case you haven’t heard, US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi is free after being locked up in an Iranian jail for a few months under questionable circumstances. Her sentence was reduced to a suspended two-year term and she was ordered released. She was also banned from practicing journalism in Iran for five years and is on [...]
More Reasons to Show Disdain for Israel
In case dispossessing the Palestinian people, setting up an exclusivist state that welcomes just about every non-Palestinian who claims some nominal strain of Judaism as a faith, and continuing to oppress and occupy the people they stole the land from isn’t enough, here are new reasons to show disdain for Israel. This list of recent [...]
The Qur’an: Always Applicable?
Popular Moroccan weekly TelQuel is apparently at it again (and by “it” I mean controversy). The cover story on the issue set for release tomorrow is entitled “Le Coran: Est-il vraiment applicable ‘en tout temps et en tout lieu?’” (or “The Qur’an: is it really applicable ‘at all times and in all places?’”) TelQuel (which [...]
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