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How well do you know your Middle East geography?

Can’t See the Forest has posted a great Middle East and North Africa “pin the tag on the country” interactive link. Check it out and have a go with testing … Continue reading

20 November, 2006 · 3 Comments

Cities of Joy: Sustainable Practises

Enrique Peñalosa is one of the most inspirational speakers I’ve had the good fortune to encounter. What he has done for Bogotá I wish could be done for other cities … Continue reading

16 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

A world helped by millions on the move

The Times | 7 September 2006 | Foreign Editor’s Briefing by Bronwen Maddox THIS year’s United Nations report on the State of World Population is astonishing — and refreshing — … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

McGreevy: Beautiful Beirut

Juan Cole Patrick McGreevy writes from Beirut: Beautiful Beirut Is a moment of crisis a time to understand a place? Or only a time to romanticize or demonize because our … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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