The Education of Dasmine Cathey - Athletics - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Benjamin Zander on music and passion | Video on TED.com

not usually a TED talk fan, but this one from 2008 is wonderful…

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نقطة نظام: نوني درويش

via the Angry Arab: “She would make claims about Islam and she would not be able to back them up…” this video is everything AbuKhalil promises and more - immensely satisfying if you’ve ever heard her speak in English…

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Twenty percent of the Palestinian population of the Occupied Palestinian Territories have at one point been held under administrative detention by Israeli forces.

Palestinian Hunger Strikers: Fighting Ingrained Duplicity

to treat the current lived reality in Iraqi primarily as one of a dominant sect (Shia) persecuting a helpless sect (Sunnis), to leave unaddressed questions of power and the implications of a ruling elite (whether Sunni, Shia or Kurd) invested in sectarian power sharing, is in and of itself an injury against an Iraqi people already reeling under the weight of occupation, war, unemployment, and lack of basic services.

Beating the Drums of Orientalism

a new pasta sauce recipe with caramelized onions & greens - what could be better? adapted from a chez panisse recipe (via may greens i « life as it happens)

a new pasta sauce recipe with caramelized onions & greens - what could be better? adapted from a chez panisse recipe (via may greens i « life as it happens)

If this is not apartheid, then whatever it is, it’s certainly not democracy.

Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal - NYTimes.com