Election fever

The corridors of the normally quiet Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University were crowded on Tuesday as students and their supporters[…]

A special donor, Allenby Bridge, VIP service and bureaucrats

Today was a special day for me. For the first time since I began my media work, one of the main donors to[…]

Moving checkpoints

There is something powerful about personal experience. No matter how much you read or hear about something, there is no substitute for actually[…]

TO SAVE 80 SHEKELS OR FOR THE ADVENTURE?

I was intended on not repeating my experience yesterday when I spent nearly 2 hours making the short trip from my office in[…]

The isolation of Jerusalem, another catastrophe

It all started as a nuisance in 1993. Twelve years later, this nuisance is becoming a major catastrophe for the over 200,000 Palestinians[…]

In search of an Arab ‘Gandhi’

For the past few weeks, Los Angles-based Palestinian director Hanna Elias has been very busy in Ramallah. He has been casting, auditioning and[…]

The people v the intelligence services

During the peaceful demonstrations in Lebanon last week, protestors carried huge photo posters of the heads of the intelligence services in Lebanon calling[…]

Something to celebrate

A curious thing is happening in Lebanon and other parts of the Arab world. Democracy might be the rule of the people by[…]

March 8th , Women’s Day, Good News from an unexpected source

Today is Women’s Day. In response to the call by the Director General of UNESCO, I decided, yesterday, to appoint Nahed Abu Toumeh[…]

Global democracy: will it stand the test?

US President George Bush tickled the fancy of lovers of democracy the world over when he focused his inaugural address in Washington on[…]