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Nader R. Hasan

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Our Hearts of Darkness

What would we do if Europe was in ruins? Imagine, for a moment, that anarchy reigned in central Europe and


What Massacre?

How does a massacre in the most-watched part of the world go unnoticed? Amazing what you can do when you


Working With Warlords

Pop Quiz: Who is the leader of Afghanistan? If you said, “Hamid Karzai,” you are wrong. Although Karzai enjoys the


The Iraqi-Palestinian Link

Items number one and two on Saddam Hussein’s to-do list: write ‘thank you’ letters to Hamas and Ariel Sharon. Had


Patriotism and its Discontents

A lengthy e-mail from an avid Crimson reader disrupted an otherwise pleasant Wednesday morning: “Tell you what, Hasan,” it began,


Cambridge Occupied

Last Thursday, I watched an Israeli soldier harass a Palestinian woman as she struggled desperately to cross a “checkpoint” to


Letter to Sharon

To: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon From: F.W. de Klerk, former President of South Africa (1989-1994) Dear Ariel, You may not


After Arafat and Sharon

As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reached new levels of barbarism this past week, nobody was talking about a peace agreement. The


Rethinking Phase Two

“Afghanistan is just the beginning of the war against terror,” declared a resolute George W. Bush on Nov. 21. Now