by Peter Speetjens | 11/09/2017 | Middle East
MIDDLE EAST EYE; Sept 2, 2017 Text Peter Speetjens What’s a life worth? That is the question that came to my mind when Canada’s Supreme Court awarded former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr $8.4m in damages earlier this summer. It produced a wave of...
by Peter Speetjens | 10/07/2017 | Middle East
This month 150 years ago, Mark Twain left New York aboard a retired Civil War vessel named The Quaker City for a “pleasure trip” across Europe and the Middle East. Aged 32, Twain was not yet the Twain we know today. Born in 1835 as Samuel Clemens, he was a young...
by Peter Speetjens | 17/06/2017 | Art & Culture
Intoxicated with the iconography of modern day America, Nadia Lee portrays sultry housewives with 50s hairdos in neon-lit motels theaters to create a staged Lynch-like world, in which nothing is quite what it seems. Nadia talks about her background, inspirations and...
by Peter Speetjens | 10/10/2016 | India
With every terrorist attack committed by an Islamist militant in the West, they pop up like mushrooms after rain. The TV pundits and so-called experts making sweeping statements about the true nature of Islam being violent and intolerant. The ignorance of such remarks...
by Peter Speetjens | 11/09/2016 | India
A special court in the city of Ahmedabad, the capital of western India’s Gujarat state, in June condemned 11 people to life for their role in deadly inter-religious riots in 2002. This and the fact that 13 others were also given to up to 10 years in jail may seem good...
