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...making peace is another matter. As the bombs fell on Gaza, the project's Palestinian producer, Yousef Atwa, wrote on the site's blog: "It is hardly possible to take it anymore," and let viewers know that one of the main Gaza characters, an ambulance driver called Abu Khalil, "has a broken heart" after losing a colleague in the war. On the other side, the Israeli line producer Avi Abramov wrote on the blog after the production ended that he had been called up for military duty. "This situation is absurd," he wrote. "I've just spent three months working...
...strange hobby, granted, and perhaps out of place on a street with so much literary, if bookish, romance attached to it. Mutannabi Street is named for Abu Tayeb al-Mutannabi (1915-65), a famously fierce and brilliant poet from Kufa, south of Baghdad. "The most noble place in the world is the saddle of a fast horse," he wrote in one poem, "and the best companion ever is a book." It may be that copiers are of greater value than horses in Baghdad these days, but one wonders what Mutannabi would have made of the street that bears his name...
REOPENED Five years after the atrocities committed within its walls shocked the world, Abu Ghraib now touts modern amenities and humane treatment of its inmates. The renovated jail, rechristened Baghdad Central Prison, formally reopened...
...lessons. Then, as in recent years, some were willing, in the name of security, to trade away the people's rights as if they were written in sand, not stone. For much of this decade, we have read about and witnessed such abuses as the scandal at Abu Ghraib, the disclosure of torture memos and the revelations about the warrantless surveillance of Americans...
...France is probably the only [country] to recognize the great cause of food,” Gauthier said before pinning the medal on Ost’s suit jacket. His speech also referenced another of Ost’s culinary accomplishments: cooking for the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi’s 800 wedding guests. After Ost accepted the medal, Gauthier followed by proposing “a toast to Raymond, and a toast to French-American friendship.” “Great things are at stake when it comes to food,” said Gauthier...