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Desmond MacNamara, a prized Logos contributor, died January 8 at the age of 89. Mac, as he was known to friends, was one of the most remarkable people that at least three Logos editors ever met. This profoundly Irish artist, a sparkling wit and inexhaustible raconteur, lived in London since 1951 with his charming English…
Read Full Article...Q: You have famously argued that there were three solutions to the Jewish problem; conversion, expulsion, and finally extermination. Could you explain what you mean by that? Raul Hilberg: This is an underlying pattern to which I came to early on in my research. Looking through the sweep of history it is clear that conversion…
Read Full Article...Jonathan Shahn’s work treats one of art’s oldest subjects, the human form. A sculptor whose work resists categorization under a specific school or tradition, he looks at and draws inspiration from the entire history of art. He embraces pre-modern, ancient, medieval, renaissance, tribal, and modern art, synthesizing their contributions in order to reexamine that omnipresent…
Read Full Article...Q: Imperialism is something that you have written on very recently with your book, The New Imperialism. This leads me to a pretty important and timely question: why Iraq and why now? A: Geopolitially, this is a critical region of the global economy and the US has been involved there since 1945, if not before.…
Read Full Article...US ACADEMICS FOR PEACE In early 2003 “US Academics Against the War,” a delegation comprised of 37 professors from 28 US universities, traveled to Baghdad on a fact-finding mission. We held talks with Iraqi academic colleagues, government officials, and non-governmental actors, six weeks prior to the Bush administration’s attack on Iraq. This initiative followed a…
Read Full Article...Rashid Khalidi on the Middle East: A Conversation Q: Perhaps you can give us a sketch of your background and intellectual development? Rashid Khalidi [RK]: Well, the easiest way to do that is to talk about my academic career. I started out as an undergraduate here in the States. I did my doctoral work in…
Read Full Article...Saad Eddin Ibrahim was arrested on June 30, 2000 and was convicted in 2001 on false charges that he embezzled funds and disseminated false information harmful to the interests of Egypt. Although sentenced to seven years, he was acquitted by Egypt’s high court in 2003. Described as the Andrei Sakharov of the Middle East, Ibrahim…
Read Full Article...Benjamin Barber is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society at University of Maryland, College Park and the Principal and Director of the Democracy Collaborative. His most recent work is Fear’s Empire (Norton, 2003). For more information on his writings and activities, see his website www.benjaminbarber.org. Q: Professor Barber, perhaps you can give…
Read Full Article...Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. A member of the executive board of Logos, her most recent book is The War at Home (New Press, 2004). Q: Prof. Piven, you were one of the most prominent supporters of Ralph Nader’s last campaign. What do you…
Read Full Article...Alexander (Sasha) Hammid (born Hackenschmied) (1907-2004) was one of the avant-garde and documentary cinema’s pioneers. Before immigrating to the United States from Czechoslovakia, Hammid was a major figure in the Czech Avant-Garde. He wrote numerous articles in various film and arts publications on film as an art form. Hammid also began making his first films…
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