Hindustan Times
A piece of cloud, distant and fleeting,
The clouded fate of longings,
Of people in floating weightlessness. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 6:46 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Dan Hotel jerusalem, dolores, Gaza, Israel palestine, Jerusalem, Palestine, west bank, Zia Haq
Just a few days before Obama’s “Yes We Can” Denver convention four years ago, I had told Carolyn Sauvage Mar, a Democrat campaigner in Delhi, that America should allow an international group of eminent citizens to vote for the US president. A bizarre idea but American politics is hardly just about America. Read more
(21 votes, average: 2.95 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, September 16, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Filed under World · Tagged America, Barack Obama, china, Democrat, hindustantimes, iran, Israel, Middle east, Mitt Romney, Muslim, Palestine, Russia, They Cal me Muslim, US, US presidential polls, White House, Zia Haq
On Saturday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or Bibi as he is called, made his speech at the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, speaking into the same microphone as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Read more
(38 votes, average: 3.08 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Filed under World · Tagged anti-Semitism, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bethlehem, Bibi, Bill Clinton, Christians, Dolphin submarines, Egypt, Gaza, Islam, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jews, Jordan, Libya, Lord Buddha, Mahmoud Abbas, Mecca, Muslims, Obama, Palestine, Palestinian, Prophet Mohammed, Tunisia, Turkey, United Nations
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt’s second president and one of the most important political figures of the Arab world, would often proudly say: “Nah-nu Abna-ul Feroin.” That’s Arabic for “We are sons of the Pharaohs”. Read more
(21 votes, average: 2.43 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, hamas, Hosni Mubarak, iran, Israel, Jordan, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, Pharaohs, Sayed Qutb, tahrir square, Tunisia, Tutankhamun, yemen
As President Obama’s special representative to Muslim communities, Farah Anwar Pandith’s job is to tell the Muslim world, ‘Look, America ain’t all that bad’. Pandith invariably begins by pointing to her own life as a successful American Muslim woman of Indian origin. Read more
(7 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Filed under World · Tagged American Muslim, Farah Anwar Pandith, Mohammad Anwar Pandith, Muslim bloggers, Obama, Palestine, pediatrician, President Bush, Sopore, Srinagar, war on terror
Many people I met during my recent visit to Israel — which kept me away from this blog for a fortnight — suggested the impossible. It’s this: left to the people of Palestine and Israel, peace is possible. Read more
(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Briti, Inside Israel, Israel, Palestine, President Chiam Weizmann, sh MP Richard Crossman, Yitztak Rabin and Yasser Arafat
