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My Uncle, Napoleon

Yesterday I went to the basement of Carphone Warehouse in London's Oxford Street, a first-aid centre for mobile telephones. The older gentleman in front of

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Camel journeys

Cairo – The camel appeared uninterested in me. He was 10 years old, his name was Mickey Mouse, and to him, I was probably nothing

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Born again vs. the renaissance

It is said that when a British reporter asked what he thought of Western Civilization, anti-colonial campaigner Mahatma Gandhi dismissively replied, “It would be a

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About

Greater Iran: A 20th Century Odyssey, by Richard N. Frye. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2005. I first met Professor Frye as a graduate student at

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Forgiving Saddam

Mam Jalal Talabani, It is a pleasure to hear that since Qazi Muhamad we now have another Kurdish head of a state, although the state

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