Some 15 years after the Madrid conference which launched the now defunct Israeli-Palestinian peace process, former statesmen and stateswomen from both sides got together to try to revive the quest for peace.
Salom Now! And METalks are two experimental initiatives which sought to rewrite the script of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and give ordinary people a starring role in the quest for peace.
Haflatoun and Victoria Vectra jump on a space plane to Geneva and drop in on CERN, the European particle physics lab, to learn of a sabotage plot and keep the dream of Vectra's cryogenically frozen grandfather alive.
By Khaled Diab Sicily's rugged beauty and chequered heritage make it an attractive getaway – in the romantic, not in the Mafia sense of the word.
By Khaled Diab In modern-day Muslim societies, the struggle for greater sexual liberty is hampered by social taboo. Two recent titles attempt to remove the veil of modesty and secrecy surrounding homosexuality and the oft-neglected issue of female sexuality.
X Pat is invited to a Star Trek convention but winds up in a maternity ward where he midhusbands an infant half Vulcan.
By Khaled Diab The US-UK occupation of Iraq is succeeding in achieving the once implausible feat of turning a reviled dictator into something of a cult hero. This demonstrates the utter failure of the Anglo-Saxon military adventure there.
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