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Do Meghan and Harry Really Believe They Control the Narrative?

Ex-royals Duke and Duchess of Sussex swept into the American media business

V-P Kamala Harris Needs A Beefed-up Press Office and A Better Job   

Is US Vice-President Harris really being useful in her powerful position?

Bang, Bang, Bang– Terrifying Here; Heroic over There. More Weapons for Ukraine vs Rising Shootings in the US

by B Nimri Aziz, April 12, 2022          New Yorkers and many Americans across the country are staggered by last week’s subway shootings. It’s like a film, or…

Martin Luther King Jr: Encountered in Algeria, 2008

“Mahteen”, she said, meeting my eyes for the first time while she attended to the papers that I’d set on her desk. I was in Oran, Algeria, being…

Etel Adnan, Esteemed Poet and Artist might well inquire about her missing Arab companions, as the outstanding New York exhibition of her art draws to a close

Jan 8/2022 by B Nimri Aziz There are perhaps five million Arabs who identify as Americans, our earliest ancestors having arrived here almost two centuries ago. Many more…

Vicissitudes of Syria War Reporting

by Barbara Nimri Aziz. December 7, 2021 It’s long past time for a reckoning by Washington on its disastrous  policy in Syria. Instead of addressing the scope and…

Morality Plays: Entertainers Draw the Line

By B Nimri Aziz Have you noticed: moral issues are no longer the domain of clerics and philosophers? Not politicians either. Our ethics, however capricious they’ve become, evolve…

Yesterday, September 12, 2001, Revisited

September 11, 2021, By B Nimri Aziz Again, I’m turning off all media and staying home. I have my own memories, and my own intelligence– not just of…

Syria Shows Its Mettle– Olympians Ghada Shouaa to Hend Zaza

by B. Nimri Aziz July 29/2021 Congratulations to Syrian table tennis Olympian Hend Zaza. Most press attention to Zaza’s Tokyo presence is her age. Not only has she…

Activist Oprah Winfrey vs Professor Noam Chomsky

July 16, 2021 by BNimri Aziz Oprah vs Noam Chomsky. Isn’t there room for both in progressive American culture? The idea of celebrities being involved in social issues…