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Fr Nov 17 -

OTHER POV's -

# Siddhartha reviews the
new Al Jazeera in English.

# Tenzin Tsundue is a
Tibetan exile and writer.
:::: Ask me where I'm from...

# Amira Al Hussaini translates an excerpt from Shalash Al Iraqi. Despite his popularity with the Iraqis, I've had a tough time reading him in translation so far. But Amira seems to have rendered him more accessible. Here is a brief passage:

Forty cars stop suddenly and armed men get out of them in a sensitive area in the middle of Baghdad and kidnap 100 people and leave. Later on, the Interior Ministry personnel arrive and free most of those kidnapped. All this is happening at a time when the Prime Minister is calling for finding the culprits and the Interior Ministry is looking for them. What is this Pakistani movie? Even the plot of an Indian movie is more coherent than this!

The rest of her Nov 16th Entry
is interesting as well.
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