by Charles Cameron | Aug 10, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — continuing on from Yezidis / Yazidis: first gleanings with a diverse set of data points ] . Here, to get us started, is some Yezidi music which I downloaded to give myself an insight into the heart of the Yezidi and our common humanity:...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 31, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on the hopelessly interdisciplinary nature of reality ] . ** There really is no limit to the diversity of strands which go into a complex tapestry such as that of Gaza. Jean-Pierre Filiu has written, and Hurst will shortly publish, his...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 24, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — at least three ways of looking at a pair of tweets ] . If there can be Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, there are at least three or four ways of looking at these two tweets: The similarities are eerie, the differences are enormous....
by Charles Cameron | Jul 17, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — peace as photo op, peace as common grief — Tears of Gaza, poetry of Rumi — second in a series ] . There are, it seems to me, Israelitarian reasons to be terrified by and / or furious with those who lob rockets at them, and most...
by Charles Cameron | May 10, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — how, where and why the name, the map, and the flag merge into reality — Gregory Bateson to the rescue ] . I am indebted for this screengrab to Phillip Smyth, whose recent Singing Hizballah’s Tune in Manama: Why Are Bahrain’s...
