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THE PRESS Editing Out Criticism Like canaries in a coal mine, newspaper editors help gauge a nation's political health. When two abruptly left their jobs last week - one in Italy, one in Saudi Arabia - people in each country started holding their breath. Ferruccio De Bortoli cited personal reasons when...
One evening last week a small crowd gathered around two men lying on the central divider of Saadoun Street an hour after nightfall. We stopped our car for a closer look. Both men had been shot in the head. One was plainly dead, the other bleeding from a bullet hole...
In August 2002, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Zayed Centre’s executive director, Mohammed Murar, proclaimed, “the truth is that the Jews are the enemies of all nations.” This followed the publication of a Zayed Centre report stating, ?...
Baghdad's street markets offer everything from guns to plugs. A bookstall on Mutanabi Street carries a Hebrew-Arabic dictionary alongside volumes of Thomas Hardy, classical Arabic poetry and medical textbooks. Also selling like bread are DVDs of a documentary called "Saddam's Crimes." The street markets are also a...
Veiled like its women is the beauty of Baghdad, a sprawling city of diverse architecture and neighborhoods, both modern and ancient, dissected by ancient waterways. The legendary pride and sophistication of Baghdadis created an Arabic word, "titbaghdada," used to imply snobbishness. But today, Baghdad is neglected. There is no sanitation...