The Palestinian Election and Democracy in the Middle East

By now, the voting will have begun in today's Palestinian elections. It's not clear how well Hamas -- the Arabic acronym which stands for Movement of Islamic Resistance -- will do, but opinion polls in the Palestinian territories show the Islamic organization pulling neck and neck with the ruling Fatah party. This is so even though Fatah strategists have plastered the territories with posters of Marwan Barghouti, the popular younger leader who is serving five life sentences for murder in an Israeli jail.

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Should Muslim & Asian Overseas Students Study in Australia, the UK & the US?

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS currently total about 2 million. The main preferred destinations (in decreasing order of popularity) are the US, the UK and Australia.

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Ten Ways to Interpret the War on Terror as a Frontier Conflict

In the 1940s and 1950s, when the generation of men now ruling over us were growing up, boys could disappear into a form of war play -- barely noticed by adults and hardly recorded anywhere -- that was already perhaps a couple of hundred years old. In this kind of play, there was no need to enact the complicated present by recreating a junior version of an anxiety-ridden Cold War garrison state (though you could purchase your own H2O Missile, a water-powered toy "ICBM" in imitation of the sort just then being prepared by adults to pulverize the planet).

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What Happens to People?

In the aftermath of war, people are often forgotten. Perhaps to protect us from the general, if not our own, atrocities we talk about Nations and The People, never simply people. That is too personal. The closest we get to people is The Enemy and they are all the same and all bad.

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