Archive for April, 2010


Looking Like Them

By Mona Eltahawy The Jerusalem Report April 26, 2010 “You’re beginning to look like them,” an Egyptian policeman told me one day at Cairo airport during the year I lived in Israel. As had become routine upon my arrival to or departure from Cairo, I had to clear security. As I waited, chats with police [...]


A Needless Death in the Light of Day

In light of the graphic video released by Wikileaks.org which shows a U.S. helicopter shooting and killing a Reuters photographer and driver during a July 2007 attack in Baghdad, I’m republishing an oped I wrote in 2003 about friend and Reuters colleague Mazen Dana, a Palestinian camerman shot dead in Baghdad by a U.S. soldier [...]