ISSUE Three!
A damn site better than
other reads
December 2004
Issue
three of Diabolic Digest takes a penetrating look far into the horizon.
Editorial
Raising a new
olive branch
Following the loss of Yasser
Arafat – for decades, the international face of the Palestinian struggle for
statehood – it is time for the Palestinians to rethink radically how they
defend their cause. Read on
Poem
Mine child
My sweet child, everything’s going to be just
fine
I’ll take your hand, if you’ll take mine
Makeshift games in the sand is all you can
afford
No wonder, poor thing, you look so bored
Well, come over here and play with me
I’ve got the best toys a poor kid’ll ever see:
Bright, alluring, the colour of your fantasies
and dreams
Step right up and check out the fluorescent
yellow gleam Read
on
Personal perspectives
Part III – A
Meccan tragedy
Spurred
by both spiritual and secular curiosity, Andy Scott jumped at the chance
to go to Mecca on Hajj and exercise his dormant acquired religion. In
this final episode, tragedy strikes as the Hajj winds up. Read on
Humour
Remembering the
Sultan of Style
Ziryab is a
name you’re unlikely to have come across. One sensible reason for this is that
the guy died over a millennium ago. But his single-handed moulding of modern
tastes should earn him a place in fashion’s Hall of Fame. Read on
Travel
Encounter with a
celebrity saint
Never having believed
in Santa as a child, Khaled Diab is surprised to run into the elusive
Sinterklaas on a desolate, windswept beach in the Netherlands. Read on
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