Bad politics
Hamid Dabashi’s most recent article ‘Hollywood Orientalism is not about the Arab world’ (Nov 10, Aljazeera.com) talks about how Hollywood is in the business of misrepresenting everyone. His arguments were…
Turkey in the eye of the storm
During our last visit to Turkey in the autumn of 2013, we spent less than a week in Istanbul. But it felt as if we had lived all our lives…
Between terror and the war on terror
Another terror attack, this time in the heart of Europe and at the seat of the EU’s political and economic power, and another mad rush to blame it all on…
