Search Results: Cairo

  • AUSTRALIA

    After the Gaza slaughter

    • James Dorsey
    • 04 February 2009
    2 Comments

    Memories of the Gaza war are likely to focus on the human rights aspects of Israel's military conduct. Demographics could constitute a greater threat to Israel than rockets or terrorism, and may be the wrench that breaks the cycle of death and destruction. 

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    'Freaks' on film

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 04 September 2008
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    In 1932, Todd Browning's Freaks sought to unsettle with the 'otherness' of its circus sideshow performer characters. A modern-day festival of films by and about people with disability emhasises not otherness, but humanity.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Peace process perspective from Nahr el-Bared

    • Kylie Baxter
    • 07 February 2008

    The view of the peace process in the West Bank is bleak, but the outlook from the refugee camps of Lebanon is even darker. Palestinians generally believe there is a deliberate Lebanese campaign to destroy the camp.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Howletts

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 04 July 2006

    Juliette Hughes talks with the animals.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The cola jihad

    • Jon Greenaway
    • 15 June 2006

    Boycotting global brands, Jon Greenaway puts Muslim colas to the (taste) test.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The ‘conscious pariah’

    • Anthony Ham
    • 15 June 2006

    Anthony Ham examines the life and legacy of Edward Said.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The pilgrim’s way

    • Anthony Ham
    • 14 May 2006

    Anthony Ham follows the historical footsteps toward Mecca.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Life in transit

    • Margaret Coffey
    • 11 May 2006

    Margaret Coffey watches as Australia welcomes Sudanese refugees.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Return of the native

    • Gary Pearce
    • 10 May 2006

    Gary Pearce follows Mourid Barghouti’s journey to Palestine in I Saw Ramallah.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Winds of change in Egypt

    • David Glanz
    • 25 April 2006

    David Glanz finds that talk of democracy is a double-edged sword.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Identity: Stranger in a strange land

    • David Glanz
    • 24 April 2006

    The ‘right to return’ to Israel does not mean that all Jews visiting there for the first time will like the reality they find.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Two wheels and the world at your feet

    • Sarah Kanowski
    • 24 April 2006

    As elegant and practical and liberating as they are, why on earth did bicycles take so long to invent?  

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