by Charles Cameron | Jun 28, 2014 | Monitor
[ By Charles Cameron — thanks to Gershom Gorenberg for clarifying this for me ] . Dalia Hatuqa, in a Foreign Policy piece titled Am I My Brother’s Keeper? and subtitled How the disappearance of three Israeli boys in the West Bank is upending...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 19, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — accuracy in naming, and the potentially dire consequences of theological insults ] . On February 3rd, Hassan Hassan, a columnist for the English daily The National in the UAE, wrote a piece titled Five Reasons Why It Is Stupid To Say ISIL...
by Charles Cameron | May 14, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — one on the scripturally-sanctioned revenge abductions of women and the other on Hausa nomenclature, with a possible correlate in Sudan ] . ** Boko Haram and revenge: Jacob Zenn and Elizabeth Pearson have an important piece on War on the...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 10, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — two talks from India’s THiNK2013 conference, one about the Taliban and US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the other a tale of India / Pakistan Partition ] . Here, Indian journalist Shoma Choudhury interviews Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef,...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 4, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a quick, minor note ] . You may of course already know this, but in case you don’t… May eye was caught by the words “Your leaders are assaultive, oppressive and tyrannical” in the English subtitles to Qasim...
