The Times of London yesterday commented on the Bard: The poet’s pen, declares Theseus in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name”. Yet the paucity of
While Hamas and Fatah negotiate on a Palestinian government of unity, party spokesmen pour cold water on their chances of success. That is not what the Palestinians want. Palestinian divisions are
To move, as I did in 1997, direct from Paris to Washington was to cross one of the sharpest cultural divides in the developed world. As US and British officials told it at the time, it was also to
It was not the day of reckoning which many have been waiting for, but last week’s official launch of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague was the closest that followers of the country’s 14
A large number of countries will participate in the World Conference Against Racism, scheduled to be held in Geneva, April 20-25. But the highly touted international meet has already been marred by
