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Sleiman Jaafar's smiling, thinly bearded face beams down from his "martyr's" portrait at the funeral procession inching its way along the narrow street in Qmatiyeh, a small village clinging to a mountainside overlooking Beirut. Handfuls of rice and pink and white rose petals hurled from windows and balconies shower the throng of mourners below. The funeral was a moment to absorb the human cost of the recent deadly clashes between Hizballah and the Lebanese government in which nearly 40 people are thought to have died. But it also generated a mix of seething anger, anxiety and an ominous...
...setting off comic explosions for 18 months now with Jesus: The Guantánamo Years. In the one-man routine, Bowman is Jesus, who, at the behest of his aging dad, returns to earth for a comeback tour. Since he's a bearded Palestinian willing to die as a martyr, the messiah is stopped at U.S. Immigration and shipped off to Guantánamo Bay. He finds himself trapped on an island that's become a maximum-security prison, designed by the people who brought the world Kentucky Fried Chicken: "Tiny battery-size cages, guarded by ignorant teenagers ... and characterized...
...experienced the siege mentality firsthand when I passed by Hizballah's "media office" in Beirut's southern suburbs to see if I could photograph the grave of its most recent "martyr," Imad Mughniyah - the Hizballah military commander assassinated in Damascus on February 12. It shouldn't have been a big deal: Mughniyah's pictures line the road from the airport into town. But the lady who ran the office looked at us as if we personally had detonated the car bomb that killed...
...Eslamshahr, one such town of about 300,000 people an hour outside of Tehran, is typical of the places to which Ahmadinejad looks as the bedrock of his support. It's a dusty place with only basic infrastructure, greeting visitors with "Welcome to the martyr-nurturing town of Eslamshahr...
Meanwhile, on the slopes of a hill terraced with olive groves east of Jerusalem, funeral preparations were being made by Palestinians for their martyr, Abu Dhaim, the quiet and religiously minded 25-year-old who appeared to his friends to be far more obsessed with thoughts of his upcoming marriage than with a jihadi's paradise. Meanwhile, at the tent for mourners outside Abu Dhaim's home in Jebel Mukabir, the flags of Israel's two greatest enemies, Hamas and Hizballah of Lebanon, rippled in the spring breeze. Overnight, Israeli police arrested Abu Dhaim's male relatives, a few neighbors...