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...about the way Israeli authorities treated his family: "We were thrown to the dogs." The family was sent to the southern city of Beer Sheva, where, he says, "They wanted to put us in a hotel which was encircled by barbed wires." Help came from a family from Ofra, a West Bank settlement, that invited the Gross's to stay with them for the time being. "They are good people," Gross says. "Unlike the Israeli state, they treat us like human beings". When night falls, he will go back to his family. After that, the future is unclear...
Paul Zerah takes a break from his five-hour-a-day Hebrew class in the West Bank settlement of Ofra, just over a barren hill from the Palestinian town of Ramallah. Only two weeks ago, Zerah, 46, immigrated to the heart of one of the world's most violent conflicts. But he feels he's left danger behind - in Paris. "I was afraid for my children there," says Zerah, who brought his wife and two youngsters to Israel. "My son couldn't walk to the Jewish school with his yarmulke on." Zerah followed his brother Marc who, in 1999, gave...
...evolving Iraqi Baathism has integrated a tendency to deify President Hussein. Ofra Bengio’s incisive look at Iraqi politics, Saddam’s Word: Political Discourse in Iraq, describes Saddam’s rule as a horrible regime that uses terror to cow and coerce the Iraqi people into messianic idolatry of His Excellency. In recent years, despite the broad pauperization and Iraqi civilians, Saddam is increasingly compared with the Prophet Mohammed. Bengio further describes Saddam’s use of the media, artists and poets as propaganda peddlers who conform history and truth to Saddam?...
...DIED. OFRA HAZA, 41, Israeli pop star whose dance remixes of traditional Yemenite Jewish poetry and techno beats became international club hits; of massive organ failure; in Tel Aviv...
...Arabic lyrics about truth and political oppression--but these flavors are overfused and hyper-blended into watered-down mush. In including too much, Geddia is mostly empty and ineffective. It doesn't make you want to dance, it makes you want to shop. Perhaps a late-'90s Ofra Haza, Atlas has produced ideal background music for burning incense, vintage clothes or those times when you want to impress guests with slightly exotic, non-English, just sexy-enough worldliness. Judith Batalion