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...This morning I went to the southern suburbs of Bir al-Abed with Rania, my friend and occasional translator. Bir al-Abed is a poor, Shi'ite area whose residents mainly support Hizballah. But there were no people there today; it was practically deserted, with shops shuttered, no cars on the streets. Bir al-Abed is close to Hizballah's headquarters, which are in the next neighborhood, so - like most areas in the southern part of the city - it's been pounded for almost a week. Bridges and overpasses have been reduced to rubble. Several intersections have been turned into...
...While I was in Bir al-Abed, the Israelis dropped a couple of small bombs about 500 yards away, on the next block. They sent gray plumes into the air and filled my nose with the smell of cordite and dust. The cab driver who drove us there, Ahmad Hammoud, 40, didn't even flinch. He's from the neighborhood and was more concerned with the fate of his family. "I got my family out on the first day of the strikes," he said. But he stayed. "I thought it was wrong to leave because if we all left...
...assert the principle that professors should not be activists, but to lament a situation where an entire department falls into the uniformity of a similar worldview. For then students lose out from not being exposed to a proper diversity of perspectives. Columbia has been nicknamed the “Bir-Zeit on the Hudson,” after the Palestinian educational institution. We are content enough with the “Kremlin on the Charles” nickname of yesteryear to prevent us from desiring a new epithet. Islamic Studies as a field of scholarly inquiry is as virgin...
...after meeting director Bernardo Bertolucci through friends in London, he served as an adviser on Bertolucci's Little Buddha, parts of which were shot in Bhutan. Then in 1998 he brought a small crew that included several of his longtime Western students to a Tibetan monastery in Bir, India, to shoot The Cup, a film based on the true story of the young resident monks' impious obsession with World Cup football. "Buddhism is their philosophy," read the posters. "Soccer is their religion." The Cup employed not a single professional actor. Most of the characters played themselves, and Khyentse Norbu shot...
...Jonathan Gregson, a Calcutta-born journalist now based in London, was in Kathmandu in the weeks after the attack, running with a pack of foreign reporters who fought to tell the story. One by one the grieving eyewitnesses came forward and recounted the same chilling tale: Crown Prince Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah had gunned down his family, then shot himself...