Blog Under Construction

I’m in a process of importing data from my original blog and move it permanently here… please make yourself at home whilst I’m doing it!

This blog will be on a symbolic

STRIKE

today, September the fifteenth in solidarity with Mohamed Erraji who might be momentarily free, but who hasn’t yet got off the hook. Moroccan bloggers and their friends around the place are joining efforts to name and shame the Moroccan government and put pressure on those who can put an end to this parody of justice. Please join this effort by publishing links to Erraji’s blog and to that of his supporting committee.

Latest: Erraji has been acquitted.

The Politics of Sorcerer’s Apprentices II

Inside Story – The backfired plan – 05 March 08. Courtesy of Aljazeera.

Grains of Folly

Watch this well informed video about the origins of today’s misunderstandings and suspicions. Extremists on both sides have common roots and campaign mostly for each other.

> See Parts III, IV, V & VI.

The Power of Nightmares – BBC 2004

Chatting With the Prince, Final Part

He may look like Che Guevara (who, by the way, died forty years ago this week), but he obviously doesn’t espouse the same revolutionary visions as those of the Argentine doctor.

Six Years After 9/11

Stereotyping and Preconceived views and imagery on Arabs/Muslims, still poison intercultural relations. A lesson on Orientalism by the late Edward Said…