I meet Huwaida Arraf at the Palestinian Struggle and Human Spirit Film Festival held in the working class district of Athlone in Cape Town. It's a chilly evening but I request we move our conversation outside. The fake Israeli soldiers harassing patr...
In what may prove to be a groundbreaking discovery, Professor Gershon Galil of the department of biblical studies at the University of Haifa, has managed to decipher an inscription on a pottery shard which dates back to the 10th century BCE.
The a...
I am not a fan of famous professors. They are normally so caught up in their research that they're often socially starved animals; aloof and arrogant in their approach. I'd rather read their work than meet them. Some have been in the library so long ...
I honestly don't think I can stomach another indignant person imploring "the West" to "do something about Zimbabwe". This gem is usually delivered on the back of some hack thesis about the hypocritical invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq to free them f...
We were the country that fought against all odds, that stood up to perpetrators of human rights though it meant lives and futures were lost. We were the freedom fighters, the reconcilers, and set ourselves as an example for revolutionaries the world ...
Two decades have passed and the peace process in the Middle East is still used by the Israelis as a cover to consolidate their presence in the West Bank and Gaza.
The peace process came to life after the 1991 Gulf War, but the Israelis developed t...
Who needs PR agencies or spin doctors?
Certainly not Jacob Zuma, judging by the breathless adulation of the media yesterday. Even the opposition parties went a little gaga over the guy. You would have sworn Zuma had actually done something praise...
I'm one of those people who know which side of the fence they're on on pretty much every topic they've come into contact with. So now that I am conflicted, I don't really know what to do with myself, and it's rather troubling. And all because of a ma...
In what seems as a move away from previous calls by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran made a conditional offer of dialogue to the new American administration in Washington saying it was ready for "talks based on mutual respect and in fair at...
United States President Barack Obama will either be remembered as one of his country's greatest ever leaders or possibly its most naive. Whichever way history adjudges it one thing is certain, this is not a presidency that will soon be forgotten. His...
