Comedian Dean Obeidallah aims to build bridges between the Jewish and Arab communities in the US through laughter. Cheryl Morris met him.
May 2010's Issue
Seven years after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, Hadani Ditmars returns to a land she last visited in 2003. With more than a million people dead in the wake of post- invasion violence, an infrastructure in ruins despite $53 billion in aid, and a corrupt Government whose human rights abuses echo the terror of the Saddam years, the prognosis is bleak. But there are signs of life amidst the devastation. The national theatre has re-opened, women continue to defy oppressive fundamentalism, and young people dream of a better future, where a renewed sense of national identity trumps sectarian divisions. Join the New Internationalist on a dramatic journey of return.
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What’s to celebrate?
The death of a journalist mars Cameroon’s 50th anniversary independence festivities. Stefan Simanowitz reports from Yaounde.
- Stefan Simanowitz
- 26 May 2010
- 0
Garzón, justice and memory
Ignacio Ramonet wonders why the Spanish judicial system has turned against one of its own. Could it be the lingering legacy of Francoism?
- Ignacio Ramonet
- 26 May 2010
- 0
Kashmir University: a campus with a difference
Students are determined to revive their banned union, despite random raids and intimidation, reports Dilnaz Boga.
- Dilnaz Boga
- 26 May 2010
- 1
Sacred ground
Hadani Ditmars discovers that Baghdad’s past and present are closely linked.
- Hadani Ditmars
- 14 May 2010
- 2
The hardest journey
Mirzeta Trnka, now settled in Australia, fled Bosnia during the country’s war in 1995. Her story has a happy ending, but for 20 million others, the struggle to survive as a refugee continues.
- Mirzeta Trnka
- 13 May 2010
- 0
The return of Jean and Maurice: how the diaspora will rebuild Haiti
The cumulative force of the Diaspora is both formidable and underreported, as Elizabeth Lazar discovers.
- Elizabeth Lazar
- 12 May 2010
- 0
Liberation’s lies
The recent video released by Wikileaks has dismayed, but not surprised, Felicity Arbuthnot. Military personnel have been wreaking carnage on Afghan and Iraqi citizens for years.
- Felicity Arbuthnot
- 10 May 2010
- 0
US superpowers in Polyp's cartoon
Today’s Clark Kent: US superpowers in Polyp’s cartoon
Post-invasion Iraq - the facts
Twelve years of sanctions and seven years of occupation have taken their toll as Iraqis struggle with wrecked infrastructure and continuing insecurity.
- Hadani Ditmars
- 1 May 2010
- 0
Life During Wartime
Three Florida sisters with very different lives, all seeking love.
- Malcolm Lewis
- 1 May 2010
- 0
The power and the glory
Anarchy, violence and nostalgia for a golden age mark Iraqi politics in the run-up to the elections.
- Hadani Ditmars
- 1 May 2010
- 0
City of Life and Death
It’s only a feature film, and it’s shot in black and white, but City of Life and Death is an intense, indelible experience.
- Malcolm Lewis
- 1 May 2010
- 0
Hail Mary, full of grace
Iraqi Christians, once a million strong, face persecution in a post-secular society.
- Hadani Ditmars
- 1 May 2010
- 1
The waiting room
War and underfunding have decimated Iraq’s public health system, once the best in the Arab world.
- Hadani Ditmars
- 1 May 2010
- 0
‘Look sad like an Iraqi woman’
In a country of widows, women have borne the brunt of years of war, sanctions and occupation.
- Hadani Ditmars
- 1 May 2010
- 0
The art of survival
Despite fatwas and foreign troops, the show in Iraq must go on.
- Hadani Ditmars
- 1 May 2010
- 0
The Vegetarian Myth
Lierre Keith has written a passionately argued, highly personal, and deeply informative book about the destructive and unsustainable nature of modern day agriculture – but disguised it as an argument against vegetarianism.
- 1 May 2010
- 0
The soaring call
Maria Golia recalls a transcendent moment amid the clamour of Cairo.
- Maria Golia
- 1 May 2010
- 0
Logging off?
The fight is on to end illegal logging in the uniquely biodiverse ancient forests of Madagascar
- 1 May 2010
- 0
Gone to bidder 70
Activist who scuppered oil and gas carve-up faces jail
- Ian Fitzpatrick
- 1 May 2010
- 0
War of the whales
Sea captain taken prisoner while attempting to stop Japanese whalers
- Philippa Piercey
- 1 May 2010
- 0
The great urban juggernaut
India’s first ‘private city’ will do nothing to help the poor
- Tarsh Thekaekara
- 1 May 2010
- 0
Durga Sob: Nepal’s trailblazing Dalit feminist
Durga Sob, founder of the Feminist Dalit Organization, is fighting discrimination in Nepal.
- New Internationalist
- 1 May 2010
- 0
Iemanja's day festival photographed
Diego Martinez’s camera captures the beauty and intensity of a Brazilian festival.
- 1 May 2010
- 1
Empire of the senses
In an Egypt where sexual feelings are kept buttoned up by religiosity, Yahia Lababidi observes an all-pervading sensuality that will not be denied.
- Yahia Lababidi
- 1 May 2010
- 0
Murderers, you are welcome!
Jean Baptiste Kayigamba, who lost most of his family in the Rwandan genocide, wonders why Britain and France are harbouring the major perpetrators and whether recent legal changes will make a difference.
- Jean Baptiste Kayigamba
- 1 May 2010
- 0
Iraq in pieces
Hadani Ditmars returns to a country where ongoing conflict underscores a humanitarian disaster.
- Hadani Ditmars
- 1 May 2010
- 0
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