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...artists chose to focus on different aspects of life in the refugee camp, and the subject matter was charged in all three cases. Sabreen explained that she wanted to focus her pictures on women in the camp because, as she explained, a woman “faces terror and occupation…[but] she stays strong and resistant. She knows a day will come when this occupier will leave...
...rolled over in bed, got up, and put on a pair of jeans and shoes. Then, as she was standing in the middle of her room, she heard the scream again. It was a female voice. Very close. Maybe next door. "It was a scream, " she says, "of absolute terror. " Then, two loud thuds, like boards clapping together. Another scream. Two more thuds...
...Deadly terror activity in Algeria and Morocco this month has offered new evidence that extremist groups across north Africa remain intent on attacking "infidel" regimes and their Western allies. But experts and security officials say there's no reason to believe that these groups are united or are taking orders from al-Qaeda - at least, not yet. "Infrequent contacts between groups have occurred, and limited exchanges of help provided, but there's no sign of operational coordination or integration," said a French counterterror official after the April 11 bombing in Algiers that killed 300 and injured over 300. Pointing...
...Decades later, the Fakir's stomping grounds are again ground zero in a war on terror. American, NATO and Pakistani troops face a hydra-like insurgency led by a string of shadowy extremist leaders who make expert use of the border's treacherous, land mine-riddled terrain, melting into the mountains only to resurface, ever stronger, from their myriad training camps and bases. "I doubt whether Washington in 2007 knows much more about what is happening in Waziristan than London did in 1937," says Alan Warren, a military historian and author of a book on Khan. If so, as with...
...book, as its title suggests, tells the history of America’s relations with the Middle East from the nation’s birth to the War on Terror. Oren weaves the history together with three overlapping threads, which he argues are the factors that have most influenced America’s relations with the tumultuous region: power, particularly militaristic and political; faith, by which he means Christian evangelism, especially its relationship to Zionism; and fantasy, the depiction of the Middle East as a mystical, faraway land in popular culture from “Lawrence of Arabia?...