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Turning A Blind Eye To Underage Workers in Jordan
SAWSAN MORRAR: It's a problem that's growing by the day but little appears to be done to address the issue of underage domestic workers in Jordan…
Diplomacy Undone: Rice’s Disastrous Moroccan Blunder
THE VIEW FROM FEZ: As the plot to a Hollywood movie it would have been thrown out as incredible. But fact beat fiction this week in Morocco …
Good Business: The Guru Season is Now
STEVE ROYSTON: This is motivational speaker season when a stream of "gurus" come on paid gigs to bestow their wisdom $80-$150 a time.…
Interview: Catching up with Amr Diab
RACHEL MCARTHUR: Amr Diab needs no introduction. The Egyptian superstar has fans everywhere from the GCC to Europe, the United States and Australia.…
Reassessing Margaret Thatcher, 1925 – 2013
STEVE ROYSTON: Margaret Thatcher was a divisive politician, and I found myself on the anti-Thatcher side of the divide.…
Hate Ad Spray Can Protest: ‘It’s All About Mona’
ROB L. WAGNER: She seems to specialise in self-aggrandizing stunts that diminish the message and provide fodder for anti-Muslim parodies. …
Rachel Corrie – Not the First, Probably Not the Last
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: The IDF (and Border Police) are murderers. They kill civilians. Unarmed civilians. Who protest for justice and human rights. This is no defensive army.…
Is Laughter the Best Medicine For Egypt?
CG NEWS: That Egyptians are funny is a well-known Arab stereotype. Egyptians are said to be khafiift id-damm (light of blood) — able to turn almost anything into a joke.…
Distant, But No Need to Shout: The Virtual Dinner Guest
ALICE HACKMAN, CG NEWS: The aim of the project is to connect people in the US with the rest of the world through dinner-time Skype conversations.…