Obama Is No Better Than Bush |
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| Authors: | NAWAL EL SAADAWI |
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| Affiliation: | 77, an Egyptian medical doctor and psychiatrist as well as a novelist and playwright, has condemned domestic violence and, in particular, female genital mutilation in her works. Her books include the novel, The Fall of the Imam;, and the autobiography, A Daughter of Isis. Saadawi was imprisoned by Anwar Sadat in 1981 and was released after his assassination. In May, Saadawi delivered the PEN World Voices Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture in New York, where she spoke with NPQ contributing editor Michael Skafidas. |
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President Barack Obama has extended the hand of engagement to the Muslim and Arab world, while warning Israel against new settlements in occupied Palestine and hedging his bets with remote drone strikes against Al-Qaida and the Taliban in Pakistan. The new CIA director, a military historian and the Somali-born feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali assess his strategy. |
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