Norwegian man arrested for Oslo bombing and Utøya shootings

One of the first reactions to the terrible incident in Norway I came across was by a Facebook friend and acquitance of my wife’s. Without any shred of evidence, he blamed “the bastard sons of Muhammad” for the attacks,which were supposedly revenge for the Danish cartoons reprinted in Norway in 2006. The man is a [...]

Deciphering Robert Fisk’s meals. Reporting and eating in the Middle East

by Mercedes López Invarato. My admired journalist Robert Fisk’s article  “Tea with Bin Laden” is a fast paced summary of his many years reporting on the Middle East and eating in huge variety of circumstances and with very different people. From a mourning Afhgan village father feeding chicken to the journalist, to the cigarrettes on [...]