Showing posts with label Marwan Bishara. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marwan Bishara. Show all posts

Friday, 3 June 2016

On Netanyahu, peace and the West (Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault [Reuters]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told France and the 20-plus countries attending the peace conference in Paris this week to butt out of the peace process and mind their own business

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/06/netanyahu-peace-west-160602082256862.html

Sunday, 22 May 2016

The Oscars of world cinema (Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera)

I've been coming to the Cannes Film Festival for a couple of decades, mainly to watch and, at times, to write about movies. And I've seen it grow and expand in many directions; commercially, artistically, and culturally, but it has generally maintained a degree of integrity and independence, notably from the inescapable dominance of American cinema

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/oscars-world-cinema-160522103742138.html

Monday, 9 May 2016

Aleppo like Grozny, Syria unlike Chechnya (Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera)

"The most dangerous place here is the hospital. You arrive, and it's the first thing they tell you: if you want to feel safe, stay at the front," wrote the Italian journalist Francesca Borri in the opening of her book, Syrian Dust, reporting from the heart of the battle for Aleppo.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/aleppo-grozny-syria-chechnya-160509065831412.html

Monday, 18 April 2016

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

What can a Jewish folktale tell us about Assad? (Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera)

Ever since the Syrian uprising started five years ago, Bashar al-Assad warned of the consequences of opposing him and threatened to remain in power at any cost.

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