Guest pens
Uri Avnery v Khaled Diab –
One state or two?
July
2007 – Could a ‘one-state’ solution end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Read on
Small bombs, big trouble
Katleen Maes
June 2007 – There are renewed hopes of an
international treaty on cluster munitions – although the only way forward is to
ban them. Read
on
Exchange of friendly fire
February 2007 – Anat el-Hashahar, an Israeli
and founder of METalks, debates the Arab-Israeli conflict – from Oslo to
Lebanon – with Khaled Diab, an Egyptian journalist and writer. Read on
No defeating hate
February 2007 – Marina Werbeloff gives her
opinion on the METalks experiment. Read on
A letter to the Israeli premier
December 2006 – Tom Kenis urges the Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert to soften his government’s toughening policy towards ‘family
unification’ in the Palestinian territories. Read on
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More to life than window
dressing
August 2006 – Badra Djait, an advisor to Flemish integration minister Marino Keulen, was born and raised among Gent’s small but close-knit Algerian community. Here, she recounts what it was like growing up as a woman in two cultures and traditions. Read on
Het pad naar persoonlijke onafhankelijkheid
Badra Djait,
een adviseur van Vlaams Minister van Inburgering Marino Keulen, is in Gent
geboren en opgegroeid als een lid van de kleine en hechte Algerijnse
gemeenschap daar. Hier, vertelt ze haar ervaring als een vrouw die leeft tussen
twee culturen. Lees
meer
Abuse freedoms and we all lose
February 2006 – It is not freedom of expression that is
under threat, but the right to human dignity, argues Tom Kenis. Read on
Extraordinary renditions –
The playwright and the president
January 2006 – Jeff Sommers,
Khaled Diab and Charles Woolfson explore the dynamics between playwright and
president as American foreign policy stands in the dock. Read on
Vrij van angst
By Katleen Maes
September 2005 – EEN zonnige
lentedag in april, in de vroegere grensstreek tussen Noord- en Zuid-Jemen. Drie
meisjes van 11 hoeden schapen in een idyllisch berglandschap. Plotseling
struikelt een van hen, haar voet zit vast in een gat in de grond. Nog geen vijf
seconden later, een enorme knal. Ze heeft in het gat een landmijn geraakt,
verstopt in een wit gemarkeerde en dus - zo dachten de meisjes - veilige zone.
Ze had geluk, enkele uren later was ze in het ziekenhuis, levend en wel, al
mist ze nu een been en enkele vingers. Read on
Testing
Mubarak’s democracy
September 2005 – A young university student
decides to put Egyptian democracy to the test by joining an opposition party,
giving his support to one of the other presidential candidates and revealing
his real name in print. Read on
Between
democrat and autocrat
September 2005 – Hosni Mubarak may
be a semi-authoritarian ruler, but he takes his legacy seriously and has a
genuine vision for a democratic future for Egypt, argues Carlos Tiny*. Read on
Egypt
2008
September 2005 – Hosni Mubarak
dies suddenly in 2008 and the presidency is up for grabs, KM peers into the
future… Read
on
A
woman’s handbook to Yemen
By Katleen Maes
July 2005 –
In the first of a two-part series, Katleen Maes recounts her experiences
travelling alone through the mysterious man’s world of Yemen. Read on
Part
III – A Meccan tragedy
December
2004 – 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
Taking
up peace, putting down arms
October 2004 – Sistani
won his peaceful protest in Najaf. But Gandhian methods in the Middle East must
substitute rather than supplement violence, writes Brian Whitaker. Read on
Part
II – A Mecca for pilgrims
October 2004 – 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 part II,
he finds himself in the holy city, acquainting himself with the rituals and
significance of the Hajj. Read on
Part
I – A milestone on the road to Mecca
August 2004 – 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 a special two-part series, he recounts his leap of faith
performing one of Islam’s five pillars, and arguably its most unique. Read on
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