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A Tale of Two Sheherazades

Sheherazade is a particularly lovely name, evocative of the legendary 1001 nights.  It was unfortunate, then, when news emerged that the former Assad aide newsanchor Barbara Walters had bent over backward helping held the name: Sheherazad Jaafari. More unfortunate, however, is the low to which several prominent newspapers sunk in trying to cover the story. […]

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Thomas Friedman, Private Eye

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Reading 18/6/2012

Saeed Jones is setting off for a year of travel: Before I even knew I would lose her, and even as I held her hand in the hospital, I knew but couldn’t fully fathom just how much my mother’s death would change my life. I’m leaving everything I know and taking on the world for […]