Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: August 15, 2009
With the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, and the welcoming of US troops into Iraq came scenes of liberation and freedom, which saw people burning effigies of the former tyrant, tearing down statues and defacing the giant portraits of Saddam on the city’s walls. They were scenes of jubilation, graphic in their depiction of a [...]
Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: June 30, 2009
President Obama’s keynote speech in Egypt at the beginning of the month, saw him make comment on Israeli settlement in the West Bank, where many are arguing that the continued construction of Israeli settlements are posing barriers to the ongoing struggle for peace in the region.
I myself attended a rather less auspicious occasion on the [...]
