Prejudice
The
race taboo
Comment Is Free, September 8, 2006
The
existence of racist attitudes within some Arab
countries is often denied, resulting in scandalous
displays of prejudice against certain ethnic groups.
The unholy city
Comment Is Free, July 10, 2006 Arabs
trying to move to one area of Jerusalem are
reportedly running up against a campaign to
keep them out.
Beyond
belief
Comment Is Free, March 22 2006
A 41-year-old
man is facing possible execution in Afghanistan for
converting to Christianity.
Brokeback
desert
Comment Is Free, March 21 2006
It is a pity
Brokeback Mountain isn't showing in the Arab world,
because it resembles current reality there.
Drawn
conclusions
The Guardian, February 07 2006
In one of the less-reported
protests against you-know-what, thousands of Yemeni
women marched through the streets of Sana'a on
February 1 with banners saying "Boykot Danish
products".
'Gay
party' guests face hormone treatment
The Guardian, November 30 2005
More than two dozen men arrested at an allegedly
gay party could face compulsory hormone treatment,
officials in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab
Emirates, said yesterday.
Saudi
textbooks 'demonise west'
The Guardian,
July 14 2004
Saudi schoolchildren are being taught to
disparage Christianity and Judaism in a textbook issued by the education
ministry, a report said yesterday.
Its
best use ... is as a doorstop
The Guardian,
May 24 2004 A critique of The Arab Mind, by Raphael Patai
The
right answer or the wrong question?
The Guardian,
March 27 2004
Amid the furore over the former Archbishop of
Canterbury's remarks about under-achieving Muslims, experts on the Islamic world
said yesterday that he was partly right but had failed to understand the problem
and had ignored some important achievements ...
Saudis
deny anti-Jewish visa policy
The Guardian,
March 01 2004
Saudi Arabia has disowned a statement by its
tourism organisation that Jews are not allowed to enter the country.
Hate
mail
The Guardian,
January 19 2004
Deborah Fink is a singer and music teacher living
in London. She is also Jewish. Last month, out of the blue, she received a
deluge of hateful emails - more than 150 in the space of a week.
Another
rule for the Arabs
The Guardian,
January 12 2004
While sifting through my father's belongings
after his death a few years ago, I came across a book of autographs that he had
collected as a child. Some of the signatories had added short verses or
quotations, and on one page I found this: ...
Kilroy-Silk
investigated for anti-Arab comments
The Guardian,
January 08 2004
The chat show host Robert Kilroy-Silk came under
fire yesterday for attacking Arabs in a newspaper article at a time when the
BBC's other employees are being forbidden to express controversial views in the
press.
Worst impressions
The Guardian,
June 24 2002
A few days before the planes hit the Twin Towers
last September, I was preparing a talk about the reporting of Islam in the
British media.
Lying is cultural trait of Arabs, says Barak
The Guardian,
May 23 2002
Palestinians have no compunction about telling
lies and see truth as irrelevant, the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak
has claimed in an interview.
Saudi paper regrets Jewish pastry myth
The Guardian,
March 22 2002
A Saudi newspaper has sacked a columnist who
wrote that Jews use the blood of Christian or Muslim children in pastries for
the Purim religious festival.
Syrians fall victim to racism in Lebanon
The Guardian,
March 19 2001
Last Wednesday traffic in Beirut - probably the
Middle East's most frenetic city - came to a halt. The cause of the chaos,
depending how you look at it, was either a student protest against the Syrian
presence in Lebanon or the roadblocks set up to control the protesters.
Arabophobia in the air
December 15 2000
There was a bizarre security alert in London this
week. A British Airways Boeing 747, with 329 passengers on board, was just about
to take off from Heathrow airport for Miami when a few playing cards were found
in the lavatory by a crew member.
The politics of identity
October 27 2000
The other night, in Jewish West Jerusalem, I hailed a taxi.
Why the 'rules' of racism are different for Arabs
August 18 2000
"Stop it, you dirty little Arab!" My grandmother
always used to say that when I did something disgusting, like picking my nose or
flicking food at my younger brother.
The 'towel-heads' take on Hollywood
August 11 2000
The American embassy in Yemen is under siege, at the mercy of a frenzied mob.
The US Marines whisk the ambassador away by helicopter. But as the riot
continues Yemeni men, women, boys and girls fire at the marines.
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