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Revolution in the Key of C: One Year Later, Tunisia Celebrates Victory at the Kennedy Center

Last week, Washington DC's Kennedy Center hosted the US premiere of “Hannibal Barca,” a symphony by Jaloul Ayed that pays homage to the famed, eponymous military figure of yore. This reference to an epi...

#Jan25 Through 25 Music Videos that Gave it Voice (Part 2)

Last week, we released part one of our three-part series The Soundtrack of Revolution: Celebrating #Jan25 Through 25 Music Videos that Gave it Voice . While most of the eight songs featured in our firs...

Abbas Kiarostami and the Return to Uncertainty: An Interview with Geoff Andrew

In the ever-growing canon of Iranian filmmaking , one name unmistakably stands out: Abbas Kiarostami . Since staking out his reputation as an internationally acclaimed director and screenwriter, his film...

Review of Taxi: “Not Easy Being Tolerant When They Behave Like This”

With Norway still recovering from the devastating terrorist attack by Christian fundamentalist Anders Behring Breivik last July, a new Norwegian television series called Taxi claims to challenge the e...

Refocusing After The Police Raid Zuccotti Park

Hours after New York police raided Zuccotti Park in Tuesday morning’s wee hours, arresting 140 Occupiers, a 29-year old New York filmmaker stood by the park, protesting for her first time. “There are...

A Lesson Not Yet Learned: How the Left in Israel has Hijacked the Memory of Yitzhak Rabin

This month, in what is now called Rabin Square, an event took place marking the 16th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a peace rally by right-wing radical Yig...

Sahadi Fine Foods: A Living Legacy in Brooklyn

Just across the East River, on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a piece of Little Syria alive and well.

Charlie Sahadi runs Sahadi Fine Foods , which his Great Uncle Abrahim started as A. Sahadi and Co. on W...

Will South Carolina Mark the Evangelical Waterloo?

With Saturday’s South Carolina Primary almost here, the favored Evangelical candidate, Rick Santorum, is running either third or fourth among state Republican voters. He is running behind a Mormon, w...

Crying Wolf about an Iranian Nuclear Bomb

This content, written by Jacques E. C. Hymans, appeared on the Bulletin on January 17,2012

The long-simmering international crisis over Iran's nuclear ambitions may now have reached a boiling point. Wa...

The Hidden History of Gingrich's Ex Wife Marianne

This content, written by Laura Rozen, appeared on TwitLonger on January 22,2012

One aspect of Newt Gingrich's much-scrutinized history with his second wife Marianne Gingrich that does not seem to have ...