Day: October 1, 2009

The following appeared in the New York Times Magazine October 4, 2009 Can the Muppets Make Friends in Ramallah? By SAMANTHA M. SHAPIRO This season’s episodes of “Shara’a Simsim,” the Palestinian version of the global “Sesame Street” franchise, were filmed in a satellite campus of Al-Quds University, a ramshackle four-story concrete structure that houses the…

By Daoud Kuttab One of the most frustrating things about the American policy towards the Middle East is how Israel seems to always be able to get away with it or at least treated symmetrically with the Palestinians, whether there is cause for such symmetry or not. This false symmetry was crystal clear last week…