As the helicopter alights on a patch of grass on the outskirts of the small village, a group of about fifteen excited children surge forward waving their hands and shouting out “Bom Dia!” - Welcome in Portuguese. A few hundred…
A few days ago, a widely-read journal in Israel hosted an Op-Ed titled: ‘You better reach an agreement with Olmert than Netanyahu’. This article referred to the failure of negotiations between Hamas and Israel regarding Gilad Shalit. After 999 days…
How much do you like to be harassed by superficial conversations, based on stereotypes or – probably worse – journalistic trumpetings?
How many times have you been genuinely surprised that even your friends – even those close friends – not only…
I’m sitting on a beach in a fork of the Teles Pires river feeling somewhat hypocritical. I’ve come on a project to map deforestation rates on ranches in the Amazon but here I am chewing on strips of barbequed tropical…
In face of the current economical-political crisis, unusual allies join in effort to keep the head above the water. In the last six months, Shiites joined the Sunnis in order to stabilize Iraq, the United States is ready to ‘turn…
International politics is not that far from being a boxing match. Among babies. While studying this much overrated subject, practitioners amass degrees and PHDs just to come to the self-evident truth that the world is governed by ‘those who have…
On January 29th, here in the pages of the Tamarind, we discussed the divisions of the Arab world and the Arab reconciliation initiative led by Saudi Arabia during the Kuwait Summit of the Arab League. A month after the diplomatic…
At school we are commonly taught that, at the time of the Roman Empires, Byzantium was considered ‘the east’ of the world – or, at least, the eastern capital of its part worth knowing.
It is not often stressed that, around…
Right before starting to write, on a (supposedly) prestigious social-web-network it occurred to my eyes to stumble on an unpleasant sight. Commenting on the results of the Italian general elections held in the last two days, a sincerely pitiful Swedish…
The Middle Eastern Student Conference launches for the second year in a row!
In 2008 a group of young students from Tel Aviv University decided to take the initiative and organize a conference on the Middle Eastern conflict. Fifty students and young professionals from all over the world participated in a five-day series…
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