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Some 53,000 refugees are crammed into the Shamshatoo Afghan Refugee Camp in northwest Pakistan. Jamal (Jamal Udin Torabi) and his pal Enayat (Enayatullah) want to reduce that number by two. The teens' plan is to reach London, where Enayat has an uncle, by any means necessary: guile, smugglers, bribes. That border guard has a suspicious look?give him your Walkman...
...travel by foot, bus, truck, ship?never knowing how long the trek will last or if they'll be shot, arrested or suffocated en route?and speed-learn the rudiments of new languages in the babel of countries they pass through. There's a sweet, sad scene in which Jamal teaches Enayat a few English words (snow, mountain) that would be of little use in England. And all this for what? If they do make it to London, they may be reduced to selling their organs for passports?an immigrant plight dramatized in last year's Dirty Pretty Things...
...crimes. Fifty-seven-year-old Kamal Zghair, a wheelchair-bound man, was shot and then run over by IDF tanks on April 10 as he was moving his wheelchair—equipped with a white flag—down a major road in Jenin. Thirty-seven-year-old Jamal Fayid, a quadriplegic, was crushed to death in the rubble of his home on April 7 after IDF soldiers refused to allow his family to remove him from their home before a bulldozer destroyed it.” Dershowitz also maintains that Israel has “abolished any kind...
...parlance) that can lead to violence. After the May 12 attacks, the newspaper al-Watan made just that link in a series of articles and cartoons. That proved to be too much for the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars. After it complained to Prince Abdullah, al-Watan's editor, Jamal Khashoggi, was fired. That, however, has not silenced Turki al-Hamad, a Saudi columnist for the London-based paper Asharq al-Awsat. "The official clergy in Saudi Arabia denounce violence, but the theoretical base of Wahhabism is a problem," says al-Hamad. "It is not enhancing or encouraging violence directly...
Diplomats had begun calling it the "Riyadh Spring," so remarkable was the recent willingness of Saudi Arabia's press to challenge the kingdom's powerful religious establishment. Unfortunately, it didn't last. Jamal Khashoggi, the loudest of the critics, was removed last week as editor of the leading Arabic daily Al Watan after he angered conservative Islamic leaders...