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When Shirin Ebadi was in prison in Tehran a few years ago for accusing officials of plotting attacks on reformers, her husband petitioned a court to visit her behind bars. "You are a free man now!" was the male-chauvinistic wisecrack of an Islamic judge. "Why don't you take...
Any public official would think twice today about poking fun at Ebadi, whose struggle for human rights in Iran has earned her the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. In naming Ebadi last week, Norway's Nobel Committee handed a platform to a formidable Iranian voice of conscience, breathed life into the...
Ebadi is the first Iranian and first Muslim woman to be awarded the Peace Prize. The news was greeted with jeers, cheers and some conspicuous silence in Iran. After ignoring the story all day, Iran's state television made the prize the final item on its evening news program, following...
When a 90-kg bomb buried in a rutted road took out a U.S. embassy convoy in Gaza last week, killing three Americans, the carnage brought to mind Iraq. It was the first time Americans, rather than Israelis, were fatally targeted by Palestinians inside the occupied territories. And unlike most...
The Gaza attack is an unmitigated catastrophe for the Palestinian Authority, which has been trying - mostly in vain - to persuade the U.S. to put pressure on the Sharon government over settlements, the separation fence, and the conditions of occupation, while fudging its own obligations under President Bush's "roadmap" to...