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...Mohammad Fayaz, a doctor who six years ago derided to follow his lifelong dream of becoming a Pashtu movie direc tor, the recent threats are a new blow to an already unstable industry. Indian imports and the rise of cable television have eroded box-office takes for several years. People worry that cinema halls will be the next target of extremists, he says. "The industry has been in a long fall Then the bombs crashed the business." Nonetheless, he intends to keep directing movies as long as he is able. "Movies are my addiction," he says. His next film...
...even thought it might entitle me to a discount on the rent. No chance.) Besides, Hinnom is deceptively pastoral; down in the valley I often see a white stallion grazing under an ancient olive tree. But I wasn't prepared for the living hell inside my neighborhood, Abu Tor. Here, Arabs and Israelis live next door to each other yet are divided by mutual fear and suspicion...
...cops who are frequently waiting there, checking IDs. On Hebron Road, he flags down a cramped, Arabs-only bus because if he boarded one of the big, air-conditioned Israeli ones, passengers might think he was a suicide bomber. For their part, Israelis avoid the Arab side of Abu Tor. A Jewish-American widow who lives in the apartment building next door won't venture to the Arab-owned corner shop just 100 yds. (about 90 m) away, no matter how badly she needs a cigarette. And Abu Tor is no different from any other mixed neighborhood in the city...
That is all too obvious in my neighborhood. On the Israeli side of Abu Tor, there are parks and flowers and streetlights and the garbage gets collected. A blind man can tell where the Arab street begins by the potholes and the smell--there, by contrast, garbage is picked up only if the neighbors pay out of their pockets for a truck to come and haul it away. The kids play in the streets because they have few parks to go to. Some of my Israeli friends are aghast when I tell them where I live; it seems that...
...Security Council powers to support an embargo on conventional weapons sales to Iran, although it calls for "vigilance and restraint" on the sale of heavy weapons. Russia and China have continued to supply the Iranian military despite U.S. objections, most recently in January when Moscow completed delivery of 29 TOR-M1 anti-aircraft rocket systems to Tehran at a cost of some $700 million...