In the northern Iraqi town of Kirkuk today, hundreds of Kurds, Turkomen, Shia and Sunni Arabs marched together in solidarity. At a time when Iraq's bloody sectarian divisions
A little over fifteen years ago, in October 1991, Israel and its Palestinian and Arab neighbours met in Madrid to hold public bilateral talks for the very first time. With
The post-9/11 era has raised serious questions over western governments' complicity in secret detention and torture. Manfred Nowak, United Nations special rapporteur on torture, is one of the
In a rare pause in Mel Gibson's breakneck Apocalypto, the film's protagonist decides to give a speech. Jaguar Paw - a name over-literalised in later action
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I met Orhan Pamuk on a bleak, damp day in New Haven. He had just concluded his remarks on "Melancholy-Tristesse-Huzun", words that struggle
