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Mirza, a singer and a Kurd, is an old man with a fierce white moustache and a fierce will. He's still in love with the wife, Hanareh, who left him for his best friend two decades earlier. Now, in the aftermath of Gulf War I, she has sent word that she needs his help. Accompanied by their two sons Barat and Audeh, he sets out to find her. When he does so, she, terribly wounded by the chemical warfare Saddam Hussein loosed on the Kurds, does...
...Next Stop: Syria?" [April 28]: How can the U.S. government think of another war, this time against Syria? Have Americans gone mad? The military strikes on Iraq have just ended, and the problems in the aftermath are shocking and far from being solved. A humanitarian catastrophe is devastating a whole country. Millions of people are suffering terribly. It's time to think of peace and aid for the victims of American aggression against Iraq. MOZAFAR AHMED AL-HIYYAL Alexandria, Egypt...
Lastly, while the “introspection” and self-questioning Mr. Podolsky recommends in the aftermath of the Hornstine incident are no doubt beneficial, they do not address the issue of Hornstine herself. How would Podolsky suggest “deal[ing] with [her]” and giving Hornstine her “just desserts,” but in a less “hypocritical” fashion...
...years, Glass disappeared from public view. Now suddenly he's back with The Fabulist (Simon & Schuster; 342 pages), a lightly fictionalized account of his disgrace and its aftermath with a central character named Stephen Glass. You might expect a legendary liar to have a gift for invention. "I am compulsively imaginative," the "fictional" Glass assures us. But you'd never know it from this wan novel about a pip-squeak Raskolnikov who wants everybody to love...
...same time were not Jewish and Palestinian. The viewers - in Nazareth and Beirut, Lebanon's capital - were all Palestinian, members of a house divided against itself. Hassan's film, which screened last week in Cairo and will be shown this week in Zurich and Barcelona, explores the aftermath of fighting between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian guerrillas in the Jenin refugee camp a year ago. It is particularly important to Hassan, who - despite the restrictions imposed on his movement in the Arab world by his Israeli citizenship - desperately wants his message to be heard throughout the Middle East, including Israel. That...