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First about a shop that serves falafels at Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, DC. On one of its walls hangs a sign with a quote: “I love my country… but I think we should start seeing other people.” For Americans who have a country, the quote is whimsical. But...
By KANI XULAM December and bad news come together in Turkey. Two years ago, it was the Turkish planes that bombed a caravan of...
By Kani Xulam “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” -- Elie Wiesel, Nazi concentration camp survivor...
By KANI XULAM “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.” --William Shakespeare, King Lear That...
By KANI XULAM Aug 9, 2013 Trouble is ominously brewing in the once-quiet, northeastern Kurdish corner of Syria where violent...
By KANI XULAM 6/10/2013 For centuries, the old Ottoman Turkish Empire ruled half the world. Is it rising again? Does the “Arab...
By KANI XULAM 5/18/2013 “Beware, lest you lose the substance, By grasping at the shadow.” --Aesop If a car is white when it...
By KANI XULAM 5/12/2013 "He that once enters at a tyrant's door becomes a slave, though he were free before." Sophocles To be...