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Firedint: 22 March: Cairo
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Gerard Russell's blog on world religions, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. Wednesday, March 23, 2011. I am here till Sunday, mostly to research a book I am writing which will describe a personal journey of mine across the Middle East, focussing mainly on the region's various religions and the connectedness of the past and the present. (When I have a publisher I will say more about this.) Then I am back in the USA from 30 March. Harvard has very kindly extended my Fellowship till June. The Jews of Lebanon.
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Firedint: August 2011
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Gerard Russell's blog on world religions, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. Wednesday, August 24, 2011. Lessons for Libya from Iraq and Afghanistan. This is my latest piece (can be found. At politics.co.uk):. Lessons have clearly been learned from Iraq for post-Gaddafi Libya. They will have been passed on, not least, by the British envoy to the Libyan rebels - John Jenkins, who was ambassador in Baghdad before going to Benghazi. It has not so far succeeded, that is not for want of thought and planning.
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Firedint: March 2011
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Gerard Russell's blog on world religions, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. Wednesday, March 23, 2011. I am here till Sunday, mostly to research a book I am writing which will describe a personal journey of mine across the Middle East, focussing mainly on the region's various religions and the connectedness of the past and the present. (When I have a publisher I will say more about this.) Then I am back in the USA from 30 March. Harvard has very kindly extended my Fellowship till June. Links to this post.
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Firedint: Religions
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Gerard Russell's blog on world religions, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. Monday, November 21, 2011. I am about half way through a book on minority religions in the Middle East - and so I want to turn this blog more over to that subject and maybe a bit less on Afghan politics, though I want to cover Afghan religions in the book as well (drawing a bit on experiences in the Wakhan valley, and my years in Kabul). Ah, she said, but here's the question: does he cross himself with three fingers or two? Gerar...
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Firedint: June 2011
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Gerard Russell's blog on world religions, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. Monday, June 13, 2011. I came back from Afghanistan, via Lebanon, to London and attended the book launch for Cables from Kabul. There have been a spate of reviews of it - the Guardian's is here. The Telegraph's is here. It comes against a backdrop of gathering gloom over Afghanistan, which the book does nothing to dispel. At least, the picture from Britain is one of gloom. In the US press, Mike O'Hanlon. Their argument is that so...
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Firedint: Is Wikileaks wrong?
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Gerard Russell's blog on world religions, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. Saturday, November 27, 2010. How is Wikileaks using informers to get hold of confidential documents from inside the U.S. Government, and publishing them, different from the News of the World using phone-taps to get stories about people's personal lives? Furthermore, the practice of leaking - so well-established in America - can do the public a disservice in two ways. The first is to drive people into using non-official means ...
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Firedint: February 2011
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Gerard Russell's blog on world religions, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. Tuesday, February 15, 2011. UN human rights reports in 2009: not, actually, too soft on the Taliban. In this New York Times article. On civilian casualties in Afghanistan, pointing out the focus that human rights groups are making on casualties caused by the Taliban, this paragraph appears:. For the first time last summer, the United Nations’ twice-yearly report. This has been picked up by Christopher Hitchens. To the conflict";.
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Firedint: Cloud to Street
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Gerard Russell's blog on world religions, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. Wednesday, April 27, 2011. A group of talented Canadian friends have put together a project called "The Cloud to Street. Cambridge, MA, United States. View my complete profile. The Jews of Lebanon. Not many documentaries are filmed in both Beirut and Tel Aviv. This moving film- which, I hope, can be reached by clicking above - foc. Landing in America: a guest blog by Javed Rezayee, an Afghan in America. Fatima Bhutto, grand-daugh...
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Firedint
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Gerard Russell's blog on world religions, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Has been created on Facebook to those who died. The events in Mazar gave me more questions than answers. Writing articles seems like an inadequate kind of response. But I did put one of my questions into a piece. At the Asia Society outed him as a supporter of reconciliation with the Taliban, in certain circumstances. It did not go as far as David Miliband, who has written. Powerful and urgent arguments f...
