Author: Hamdi Baala
2019 WPI Fellow
Bio: Journalist based in Algiers, Algeria.
Twitter: @hamdibaala
Salman Rushdie reciting Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish while interviewing post-colonial thinker Edward Said.
Reminder that Rushdie was defending the Palestinian cause and critiquing Western colonialism, while Khomeini oversaw a government that executed thousands of people https://twitter.com/mj_Farid_h/status/1558457530900041729
Selon Radio M, l’examen post-mortem du corps de Djamel Ben Smaïn n’a pas pu déterminer avec certitude la cause du décès vu l’état calciné du cadavre. Les médecins ont pu néanmoins affirmer que la mort est survenue avant que le corps ne soit brûlé et égorgé.
LIVE: Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, sent an update on his condition: “The news is not good," he said. "Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged."
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/12/nyregion/salman-rushdie-stabbed-new-york?smid=tw-share
Posts by Hamdi Baala:
Hey, where are you going with that post-truth in your hands?
To the extent that there is such a thing as objective truth, I always thought that the “fake news” trend was just an exaggerated new spin put on an old phenomenon that we used to call rumors or hoaxes, with no real new danger. Long before this WPI fellowship,...
Do you believe in life after impeachment?
To enter the Paramount Theater last Saturday afternoon, you needed to stand in line for at least two hours in the Austin, Texas, heat. The star of the show was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Texas Tribune Festival’s closing guest. I did not want to stand in...False notes in the Immigrant Song
“Our only goal will be the western shore,” goes Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” I thought of this line a lot whenever the immigration came up when we, the 2019 WPI fellows, met with different think tanks and media outlets. In my interpretation, the “western...
So, what has Trump done right ?
Two and a half years into Donald Trump’s term, the U.S. president has often stated that what he calls the “Fake News Media,” e.g. mainstream media outlets, do everything they can to downplay his accomplishments in order to make him look bad. “The Fake News Media...
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