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		<title>The Road From Damascus</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My brief visit to London over the past weekend was a memorable one. Besides attending the award ceremony where my friend Dahr Jamail received the Martha Gellhorn Prize, dinner with John Pilger, meeting M. Shahid Alam, befriending Ghada Karmi, spending time with my friend and ever-generous host Paul de Rooij, I also had the pleasure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1995&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Diary of a Bad Year’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Gorra on J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Diary of a Bad Year’ Halfway through J.M. Coetzee’s 11th novel there’s a chapter called “On music,” a series of elegantly phrased pensées that moves from bird songs to the heroic narrative of the 19th-century symphony before it ends by marking the difference between two masters of the German Baroque.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1232&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eat Your Heart Out, Homer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Dalrymple reviews The Adventures of Amir Hamza by Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami (translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi, 948 pp. The Modern Library). Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction In the summer of 2002, as Pentagon strategists were planning the invasion of Iraq, a short distance away, on the National Mall in Washington, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1172&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the Veil</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commenting on Bernard-Henri Lévy and Alain Finkielkraut, Norma Finkelstein had once said that what they call a &#8216;charlatan&#8217; in the rest of the world, in France are known as &#8216;philosophers&#8217;. But of course these two are more than mere charlatans &#8212; they are also front-line warriors in the Zionist ideological war. It is curious that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1044&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupied Iraq: A Horizontal View</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Dissident Voice, 10 September 2007; Atlantic Free Press, 10 September 2007; Indymedia UK, 10 September 2007; Spinwatch, 11 September 2007 Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq by Dahr Jamail, Haymarket Books, pp 240, $20 Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps. [1] In 1937 George Steer’s report [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=811&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Humanitarian Wars&#8221; and Associated Delusions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s guest editorial is an excellent review of Jean Bricmont’s new book Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War (Monthly Review Press, 2007) by my friend Paul de Rooij.  Most inhabitants of Western countries are afflicted by nefarious delusions about the nature of their societies and government policy; the public at large is led to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=733&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging the New Orientalism: Dissenting Essays on the &#8220;War Against Islam&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By M. Shahid Alam,  Islamic Publications International, 272 pp., 2007, 978-1889999458 Early in the 12th century, the Crusaders rampaged through Islamic lands with little initial resistance; the emirs and sultans were more concerned with their own internecine feuds.  At this point, Ibn al-Khashab, an Imam from Aleppo, took it upon himself to jolt the Islamic world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=211&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portrait of the Monster as a Young Artist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[J.M. Coetzee on The Castle in the Forest, Norman Mailer&#8217;s rendering of Hitler. In his dual biography of the two bloodiest butchers and worst moral monsters of the twentieth century, Stalin and Hitler (but is Mao not up there with them? and does Pol Pot not get a look-in?), Alan Bullock reprints side by side [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1846&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jimmy Carter Simon &#38; Schuster, 320 pp., November 2006, 978-0743285025 Review by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States is no stranger to controversy. As the first American President to speak of a Palestinian “homeland”, to encourage Israel to give up occupied lands, to force Israel from captured territory[1], to establish contacts with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=156&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Role of Lobbies and Special Interest Groups by Janice J. Terry Pluto Press, 168pp, July 2005, 978-0745322599 Review by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad The publication of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt&#8217;s Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy has broken what Edward Said had referred to as “America’s last taboo” by opening the debate on the influence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=158&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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