Travel Writing Is Dead

Copied from http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/05/travel_writing_is_dead?page=0,1 The simplest reason for this catastrophic turn is that it is easier than ever to travel, and not at all easier to write well. In 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss wrote that travel is "an unavoidable drawback" of acquainting oneself with the world: "There are hours of inaction ... and always the thousand and one dreary tasks which eat away the days to no...

The political line of Israeli papers (a reader’s guide)

Who leans to the left and who moves to the right? which paper supports Netanyahu and who goes after him? a short guide to the subtleties of the Hebrew press Newspapers in Israel have always been of great importance. One of the first things early Zionists did in Palestine was to create their own Hebrew papers. Every major political faction had its own publication,...

حث الفاتيكان السلطات العراقية على

حث الفاتيكان السلطات العراقية على ألا تنفذ حكم الاعدام بحق طارق عزيز النائب السابق لرئيس الوزراء إبان حكم الرئيس العراقي السابق صدام حسين. وقال متحدث باسم الفاتيكان في بيان ان من شأن ذلك أن يساعد في المصالحة والسلام والعدل. ولم يستبعد الفاتيكان امكانية القيام بمهمة تدخل انسانية لصالح عزيز لكن المتحدث أضاف أن ذلك...

And here's another testing post; let's see how that works...

Stolen from someone else's blog..I recently received Ziyad Clot’s new book, Il n’y aura pas d’État palestinien: Journal d’un négociateur en palestine [There Won't Be a Palestinian State: Diary of a Negotiator in Palestine], published a few weeks ago in France by Éditions MaxMilo. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what happened in...

Hello, were you trying to reach my blog?

Thanks for dropping by! I'm guessing you meant to visit my blog - the Traveller Within, which is available here.I follow the British spelling and use a double L for 'traveller'. (I know, I know...)So please update your bookmarks, and thanks for visiti...