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From Kahlil Gibran, “The Vision,” available at Amazon.com.

Peter van Buren writes at Tomdispatch.com: Left Behind What We Lost in Iraq and Washington, 2009-2012 By Peter Van Buren People ask the question in various ways, sometimes hesitantly, often via a long digression, but my answer is always the same: no regrets. In some 24 years of government service, I experienced my share of […]

5. Several center-left parties in Tunisia have formed a centrist party for the next election. The Progressive Democratic Party only got 16 seats in parliament, despite being a popular party, and it is determined to improve its electoral position. 4. Omar Suleiman, the former head of Egyptian military intelligence, has thrown his hat in the […]

From Kahlil Gibran, “The Vision,” available at Amazon.com.

From the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: In the small town of Bluffdale in the Utah desert, the US government is halfway to completing a gargantuan complex designed to store and trawl through billions of phone calls, emails, and other global communications. As the UK government reveals its own plans to carry out mass surveillance, a […]

A contemporary Egyptian, Coptic Christian icon of the Resurrection by Adel Nassief: “1994 – The Resurrection – Holy Family Church – Bahir, Egypt” courtesy Adelnassief.net, /frescos For Coptic Christian paintings and icons, see Jimmy Dunn and the Coptic Network Picture Archive For the distinctive Coptic Egyptian ways of commemorating Easter, see “Celebrate Easter the Egyptian […]

On Good Friday in Jerusalem, religious cooperation among Christians, Muslims and Jews is on display. The key to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is turned by a Muslim family, the Nuseibehs, and another Muslim family, named Judeh, stores the key overnight. Christian authorities overseeing the church, held to have been built on the site […]