june 04, 2009
New on the Z Word Blog
Obama's audience in Cairo; a Palestinian intellectual on the "Nakba Narrative"; and much more besides.
Gaza and After: An Interview with Paul Berman
PAUL BERMAN IS A writer
on politics and literature, an editor at Dissent and The New Republic, a
professor of Journalism at New
York University,
and a preeminent public intellectual. He
has written or edited eight books, including, most recently, Carl Sandburg:
Selected Poems, edited with an
introduction, published by the Library of America in 2006.
Many ...
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Arguments: The Limits of the Northern Ireland Analogy
THIS IS THE SECOND in our occasional series,
Arguments, in which Z Word writers
examine certain recurring themes in the ongoing debate about the Middle East.
The analogy between the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict and the conflict in Northern
Ireland is one that is frequently drawn.
With President Obama's appointment of George Mitchell as his Special Envoy to
the ...
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Rodolfo Walsh: Argentina’s Revolutionary Anti-Zionist
THE MEMORY OF Rodolfo Walsh, journalist, author, political activist and revolutionary, is
venerated with notable fervor among broad sectors of progressive opinion in Argentina
today. No speech condemning the 1976 military coup is complete without a quote
from Walsh's "Open Letter to the Military Junta." He is widely regarded as
having provided an example ...
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