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Tabloid Shock!
Arriving at a press conference, American reporters and British reporters often glance at one another with something approaching sneers.
Those Yanks (think the British) are so bloody earnest with their dull gray journalism. Those Brits (think the Americans) are a bunch of unscrupulous hacks, probably making it up half the time.
In fact, both sides of the Atlantic produce proud journalism as well as the disgraceful kind. But the current media mess is a distinctly British one, dragging in the royal family, Hugh Grant and the ruling class.
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Failure of multiculturism stems Terrorism?
Six years ago today, on July 7, 2005, Islamist suicide bombers attacked London’s transit system. They blew up three subway trains and a bus, killing 52 people and leaving a nation groping for answers.
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Marriage of East-West Music on the Hudson
Celebrating musical reconciliation at a place scarred by incredible pain requires a delicate touch and a musical tour de force if the result is to be convincing. New York's Absolute Ensemble and the Lebanese artist Marcel Khalifé took up this challenge.
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Counter-narrative to global terrorism
She spoke in Russian, a language I don’t speak, but I knew exactly what she was saying. Aleta Borsovna Gasnova conveyed all the horror of her experiences as a hostage in Beslan's School No. 1, North Ossetia, Russia, through her voice. It was a chilling moment. Even though I have met thousands of other victims and survivors of terror her pain touched all who heard her terror-stricken story.
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Searching for identity
Hungry to be just one of the guys after immigrating to Texas, Palestinian Fawaz Ismail asked everybody to call him “Tony.” The nickname put people at ease at his Dallas high school, where Tony switched from soccer to football and picked up a bit of a Texas twang.
He remained Tony when he moved to Northern Virginia to expand his family’s flag-selling business. The name made him feel as American as his Falls Church store, Alamo Flag, a patriot’s paradise brimming with Stars and Stripes banners, pins and stickers.
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Wither al-Qaeda
Obama was announcing the Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s death on an assault at his secret headquarters in Pakistan on 1 May 2011 with the words, “Justice is done, mission accomplished.” In Washington, a rerun of the ‘breaking news’ flashed with an update: Bin Laden’s body was wrapped in a shroud and dumped in the sea, thus ended a decade which started with the planes taking off from Boston at about 9 a.m. in the morning to end up smashing into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
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