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(Of a cocktail called Between the Sheets, he wrote, “We ran into it one dank day of sleet and rain in early January, just after the first Arab-Jewish riots which started with a murder of a poor old man stoned to death in a Haifa melon patch, between halves of a soccer match.”)

The World on the Rocks 2009

In today's pictures, an Islamist hides during clashes in Bangladesh, a woman worships the goddess Durga in India, an Arab-Jewish actor is gunned down and more.

Photos of the Day 2011

But even if we assume that the Iraqis revolted against the British colonial rule in 1920, a few decades before the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine was making the headlines, the so-called revolution would prove that the Palestinian problem is not as central for Arab anti-colonial sentiment as Makdisi wants it to be.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Review: 'Faith Misplaced' by Ussama Makdisi Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2011

(Of a cocktail called Between the Sheets, he wrote, “We ran into it one dank day of sleet and rain in early January, just after the first Arab-Jewish riots which started with a murder of a poor old man stoned to death in a Haifa melon patch, between halves of a soccer match.”)

The World on the Rocks 2009

But even if we assume that the Iraqis revolted against the British colonial rule in 1920, a few decades before the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine was making the headlines, the so-called revolution would prove that the Palestinian problem is not as central for Arab anti-colonial sentiment as Makdisi wants it to be.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Review: 'Faith Misplaced' by Ussama Makdisi Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2011

But so concerned were we about the potential for outraged audiences that we built into the presentation of the play a response vehicle, “The Peace Café” co-created by artistic director Ari Roth, Theater J councilmember Mimi Conway and a frequent participant in Arab-Jewish dialogue, restaurateur and Iraqi-American Anas Shallal.

Why Do a Reading of Caryl Churchill’s “Seven Jewish Children” at a Jewish Theater? « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009

The targeting of an area of Jewish settlers known for vigilantism against Palestinians also threatens to trigger a surge in violence, and police forces stepped up their presence on West Bank roads to prevent Arab-Jewish flare-ups as Israeli mourners from the funeral made their way home to the settlements.

Israel Approves New Housing in West Bank Joshua Mitnick 2011

Cut in half by the Arab-Jewish war of 1948, rejoined together in 1967, Jerusalem today, as Mr. Sebag Montefiore points out, enjoys a religious tolerance without precedent in its history.

City of Peace—and War Norman Lebrecht 2011

Once in the U.S., her family settled into a close-knit Arab-Jewish community that struggled to insulate itself from the cosmopolitan forces of the West.

The Customs Of the Country 2011

But even if we assume that the Iraqis revolted against the British colonial rule in 1920, a few decades before the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine was making the headlines, the so-called revolution would prove that the Palestinian problem is not as central for Arab anti-colonial sentiment as Makdisi wants it to be.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Review: 'Faith Misplaced' by Ussama Makdisi Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2011