by Raouf J. Halaby | Apr 22, 2013 | Opinion
Even though April 9, 1948, is a day of infamy for Palestinians, few commemorative ceremonies are usually held. Sixty-five years ago, organized Jewish terrorist groups, including the Irgun and Stern gangs, attacked Deir Yassin, a village whose population numbered some...
by Raouf J. Halaby | Jan 4, 2013 | Opinion
Just a few days after Jan. 1, 2007, our Sunday school facilitator commenced the morning discussion by posing the following question: “Where do you encounter God?” The answers were varied: “in the Scripture,” “in prayer,” “in...
by Raouf J. Halaby | Aug 8, 2012 | Opinion
While surfing cable channels in mid-July to catch up on the macabre situation in Syria, I caught the last 90 seconds of a report on a U.S.-funded “weapons fair.” “The Business of Kaboom” featured a handful of foreign reporters touring a remote...
by Raouf J. Halaby | Feb 25, 2011 | Opinion
Politicians have convinced U.S. citizens for 60 years that some of the world’s tyrants and dictators are “strong and dependable allies of the U.S.” To wit, the State Department’s official statements about Hosni Mubarak during the first few days...
by Raouf J. Halaby | Jul 6, 2009 | Opinion
It is a safe bet to state that Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka are perhaps the world’s foremost writers to have expounded on and to have initiated a fictional genre that deals with art and the artist. Each of these writers delved into and expounded on the complex...
