“[S]everal shirtless settlers with scarves wrapped around their faces hurling stones at a cluster of homes and vehicles. Israeli troops stood among the settlers but did not appear to be taking any action to stop them”:
- Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Village, Wound Toddler (AP / Washington Post)
False charges of antisemitism to suppress true statements about Israeli aggression are not new, but “the intervention of Israeli government officials directly with an American university over the teaching of a course represents a troubling new threat to academic freedom”:
Women’s education is off to a bad start under Taliban 2.0, but it is as important for the Taliban as it is for Afghani women:
- Kabul University Shuts Down as Taliban Government Bans Women from Campus, for Now (Washington Post)
- I Educate Girls. My Life’s Work Is the Taliban’s Greatest Need (Washington Post)
The show demonstrates the “diversity of opinion, diversity of faith and … great diversity in how Iranians express themselves. ” Its sponsor estimates “that 40 per cent of artists working in Iran right now are female, higher than elsewhere”:
- Manhattan Exhibition Combats View of Iran as ‘Hostile Anti-American State’ (The Art Newspaper)
Iraq’s PM seeks “to promote a more integrated region and turn his country into a bridge rather than a battleground for competing foreign powers”:
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