Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
This is technological innovation, which we would wish to encourage — adopted by a new team of media advisers working for the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah — showing (on Youtube!) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) receiving U.S. Special Envoy George Mitchell not very long ago in the Muqata’a presidential headquarters in Ramallah:
Now that my [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The current issue of The Nation magazine (’published on 7 January, but with an issue date of 25 January) has an article entitled “How to Save Journalism “, co-written by John Nichols (described as “a pioneering political blogger [who] has written The Beat since 1999 … [and] The Nation’s Washington correspondent”) and Robert W. McChesney [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Journalism and Journalists
Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Adriana Huffington, who has apparently been in Israel for a conference of bloggers, was interviewed by the Jerusalem Post. The full interview will be published by the newspaper next week, its website says. But a video excerpt is already posted.
Adriana Huffington of Huffington Post interviewed by Jerusalem Post
Huffington said that blogs [...]
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Posted on August 22nd, 2009 by Marian Houk
Today, the first day of Ramadan, I found writing (again) on my car — two lines written large in the dust that accumulated overnight on the windshield of the car I rent. The lines contained the word/name “Allah”, and looking like a verse from the Qur’an or a saying from the Hadith. [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Human Rights, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on July 12th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Boycotts are in the air — billed as a peaceful alternative to war and conflict of all sorts. The definitive worth of the tactic is debatable — and in some circles it is being debated. Naomi Klein recently visited Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory [West Bank + Gaza -- yes, the [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council, US in UN, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on July 10th, 2009 by Marian Houk
There is an edited version of an interview with Leonard Cohen published today in The Guardian which makes me wonder about Leonard Cohen and love.
It made me think of someone whose birthday is today (not Leonard Cohen – his birthday is 21 September, as we already reported here . )
According to The Guardian, it [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Human Rights, Journalism and Journalists, Uncategorized
Posted on July 1st, 2009 by Marian Houk
This is a story about an American diplomat in Algiers — apparently the CIA bureau chief, and surprisingly a convert to Islam (unusually tolerant for the CIA, no?) — whose name is Andrew Warren, who apparently had a very bad habit of putting rather common drugs (xanax and valium) into women’s drinks, that caused violent [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Blogging, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment, USA
Posted on June 11th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Here are several items that are right on the mark about the present situation here:
(1) Thanks to a link on Dion Nissenbaum’s blog, Checkpoint Jerusalem, one can find a gem of a paragraph posted on 30 March on Richard Silverstein’s blog, taking serious issue with what he calls a “fantasy” of Gershom Gorenberg, who tried [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process
Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The American public radio network, National Public Radio (NPR) lists links to 22 broadcast stories to which Roxana Saberi contributed as a journalist or which she prepared herself (between May 2003 and August 2007). The list of these stories is noted below (without links), and can be found here, with links.
In addition, NPR says [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Iran, Journalism and Journalists, USA
Posted on May 16th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The National Public Radio reported, in its “All Things Considered” program on 13 May, that “A lawyer for Roxana Saberi, the American journalist who was convicted of espionage last month in Iran, disclosed new details about her case Wednesday, telling NPR that the Iranian prosecutor in the case had claimed Saberi was actively recruited by [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Iran, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, USA
