- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 14, 2012
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The presidency: take this job and love it
If Obama's so smart, why does he want four more years?
- Movies, Movie Sidebar, Jun 13, 2012
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The not-so-dark continent
The African Diaspora International Film Festival screens 6/15-6/21 at Facets
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 9, 2011
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The Middle East Uprisings Release Their First Mix Tape
"Khalas Mixtape Volume One" includes the influential "President, Your People Are Dying" from Tunisia's El General and similarly politicized rap from Egypt, Libya, and Algeria.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 13, 2009
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Veiled Voices
Brigid Maher's documentary "Veiled Voices," premiering 9/13 on Link TV, follows three women leaders in the Middle East.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 23, 2009
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"My only weapon...is that I won't leave this place"
Imprisoned by Egyptian security forces last February for protesting the Israeli siege on Gaza, student activist Philip Rizk explores nonviolent resistance in his documentary "This Palestinian Life," screening tonight at Wellington United Church of Christ.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 24, 2007
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Freedom is a two-way street
If an Egyptian should be free to criticize Islam, then a European should be free to deny the Holocaust happened.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 30, 2007
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Immigration folly set right
Fundamentalist Muslims in Cairo beat a Christian for not turning over a friend to be murdered for converting to Christianity. A U.S. judge saw no sign he'd suffered religious persecution.
