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Despite the image here in America, Land of the Arab world as uncouth and uncultured, the Arabs have a rich cinematic history. Arabs have been making movies and hundreds of them since the early 20th century. An young Egyptian child star singing and...
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Manifest Destiny. Another word for imperialism.
One of the reasons why Israel maintains strong support in the United States - well, used to anyway - is that the...
made popular Aug 17 2009
The pickled head of an African chief murdered by Dutch colonialists almost 200 years ago was on its way back to Ghana yesterday, at the end of a strange voyage through...
made popular Jul 25 2009
Photo Credit: Associated Press
The United States has gotten used to being the colonial power in Iraq for six years. It invaded the country against international...
made popular Jul 22 2009
The picture of five elderly Kenyans standing outside the British Prime Minister’s office and their stated mission this week marks an important milestone in the...
made popular Jun 27 2009
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi flies into Rome today on his first visit to Italy, celebrating the end of decades of animosity between his country and its former colonial...
made popular Jun 10 2009
As Bolivia prepares to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the start of its independence struggle from Spain, the BBC’s Candace Piette finds that colonialist...
made popular May 27 2009
The problems faced by the modern Arab World are largely due to its modernisation. And therein lies a cruel irony.
Most Arab societies did not initiate their own...
made popular Nov 24 2008
During the launch of Cavendish University Uganda, former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda asked African nations to support Barrack Obama become the US president. Kaunda...
made popular Oct 17 2008
This article offers a critical perspective on the making of the Kenya post-colony using the example of ‘The Kenya of the North’, a region that has been relegated to...
made popular Oct 10 2008
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The Arab states are responsible for less than 5 percent of the world’s total carbon emissions, but according to the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED),...
made popular Dec 12 2009
Here is a rule of thumb for Arab tyrants: if their spokesman claims that they are in good health then that must mean they are about to die or have died already.
This...
made popular Dec 2 2009
This post asks why the Arab world is so backwards, not Arabs. So for those looking for a racist post attacking Arabs, go somewhere else.
While Arabs are, of course,...
made popular Nov 9 2009
A recent law amendment lowered the legal Tunisian voting age from 20 to 18. What does that mean? Simply that 500,000 more people will be able to take part in a...
made popular Sep 14 2009
Despite his tawdry tabloids, Australian Rupert Murdoch has built an envious media empire ranging from a near-monopoly in the Australian print press, to ownership of one...
made popular Sep 3 2009
Two words can describe the Arab world’s reading of the new President Barack Obama: cautious optimism.
The Arab world is relieved to see the dogmatic,...
made popular Jan 21 2009
The problems faced by the modern Arab World are largely due to its modernisation. And therein lies a cruel irony.
Most Arab societies did not initiate their own...
made popular Nov 24 2008
The Arab millionaire is charming but determined. He has made a bet to persuade four young Christian women from four different Western countries to become his wives...
made popular Mar 31 2008
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