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...Books of contemporary poetry. Etel Adnan’s Arab Apocalypse, which is about twenty years old but as timely as ever given recent events. They’re also reading Forrest Hamer, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sam Witt, and Claudia Rankine. And I give them weekly hand-outs. This week it’s elegies by Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats, and Thom Gunn...
...sure, surrender was never an option for the 5,000 Taliban troops defending the city. Many of them are reportedly not Afghan at all, but hardcore volunteers from Pakistan, Chechnya and the Arab world. And the history of bloody massacres each time Mazar-i-Sharif has changed hands in recent years gives them every incentive to fight to the last man. On the other hand, the Taliban forces were considered outside occupiers by the city's residents, most of whom are ethnic Hazaris whose Shia brand of Islam is held in contempt by the Sunni Taliban - and the Alliance...
...Economist warns that Washington's public relations effort may be too little too late. "In Europe, support for the war is slipping," the magazine writes. "In the Middle East, opposition appears to be mounting." It warns that despite new and creative propaganda efforts by Washington, success depends on enlisting Arab and Muslim spokesmen to dress down bin Laden...
...horrified at elements within the Pentagon pushing for an all-out assault on Iraq. The handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the main source of dispute, with Downing Street and the Foreign Office worried that dithering in Washington in its handling of the peace process risks alienating Arab opinion, which is seen as crucial in the coalition against terrorism...
...Ground zero of the propaganda war has been inaccessible to most Americans - Qatar's Al Jazeera cable TV network, the single most important opinion-maker in the Arab world, broadcasts only in Arabic. But Boston NPR station WBUR is now offering Americans a peek at what the Arab world is hearing through its daily translations of Al Jazeera's news broadcasts. While much of the reportage comes straight from the wires, Taliban spin gets a lot more air than it would in the U.S. Example: "The Taliban say the U.S.-led campaign is a crusade against Islam and claim...