Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
In a recent television interview, comedian David Cross spoke about growing up as a Jewish kid in Atlanta, Georgia in the 1970’s: “I wasn’t bald when I was a kid…I had a little Jew-fro…so people knew I was Jewish,” he said. “Sure, there’s southern hospitality, as long as you’re not different.” (emphasis added) I think
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Travelling to Iran was always going to be difficult. My interest in the country goes back a number of years, ever since a fast friendship with a member of the Canadian diaspora introduced me to the combination...
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
In November I had the pleasure of meeting a bright young pharmacy student in Tehran who told me that his country wasn’t as bad as people think. Sure, Islam had been “misused” by the government (I let...
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
Although I would likely have given Best Picture to Django Unchained, I thought Argo was a pretty good movie. It gave the viewer an understated but affecting sense of the political climate that led to the formation...
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
I will admit upfront that I sympathize with the efforts of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, “Father of the Turks” and founder of the modern Republic of Turkey. Because of him, Turkey is one of the only “Muslim countries”...
Thursday, March 14th, 2013
In the weeks after I completed graduate school (I couldn’t bring myself to say, ‘graduated from graduate school’) I decided to interrupt the monotony of “job hunting” by accepting an internship with an established writer and speaker...
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
Five years ago, Christopher Hitchens produced an engrossing essay for Vanity Fair in which he described a Christmas vacation spent with his son in Iraqi Kurdistan (Holiday in Iraq, Vanity Fair, 2007). For those unfamiliar with...
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Whether you want to or not, Turkey will make you think about east and west. Likely more than any other place in the world, it epitomizes a meeting of the two – historically, architecturally, culturally, religiously, economically,...
Sunday, February 10th, 2013
Guest post by Joe Madden When I first stepped off the airplane at Prishtina International airport last September, my idea of Kosovo was more or less entirely based on what I had read on the Internet. I...
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack in 2006 at The Hague. At the time, he was defending himself before a war-crimes tribunal for his role in the Bosnian and Kosovo wars of the 1990s. The official...
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