Last week, Sir Ken Macdonald, a veteran prosecutor, spoke to the British Criminal Bar Association. He offered words of caution that thundered as a warning to the world.
Some books have moved me more than others - Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" crushed my spirit as a high school sophomore, leaving me pacing my room through frustrated tears. As an eighth-grader, Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" shook the "iron chains" of my moral universe with Dom ...
In the contemporary political zeitgeist, it seems the term "revolution" has almost gone out of fashion. The idea that a mass of average people can effectively topple a government and bring about long-awaited justice rings of some kind of Enlightenment naiveté, or at least has been quashed by the ...
One day I was searching through a basket of colorful finger puppets at Spectrum International on Thayer Street. As I approached the counter, the shopkeeper smiled. "You picked my favorite one," he said. "The snail. Do you know why?"
People thought we were strange in Damascus.
When I turned 17, I wanted just one thing for my birthday: belly-dancing classes. The dance's beauty, grace and creative costumes, along with its strong connection to Arabic music, made it a natural choice of hobby for me. I eventually managed to convince my reluctant parents to fund the first month ...
"Christianity is the world's most tolerant religion." These words surprised me, not only because of the certainty with which they were uttered, but because they came from the mouth of an Egyptian, Muslim intellectual.
About a week after the beginning of the furor over the now-infamous Danish caricatures, I was walking through the streets of Cairo with an Egyptian friend. That particular day, between the dust and the cars and the groups of men remarking on my blonde hair, my friend noticed the wares of one of Cairo's ...
Let's take a moment to put aside thoughts of the violence surrounding the infamous Danish caricatures, the election of Hamas in Palestine and the chaos reigning in Iraq. For many people in Egypt, the most important recent events carrying impact on a national scale were their country's triumph over Senegal ...
As I debarked my plane and walked to passport control at Newark Liberty International Airport, the first thing I noticed was the large American flag positioned above an otherwise featureless corridor and a large sign welcoming me and my fellow travelers to the United States of America. The sight momentarily ...
Solutions by The State News
