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Movie Review: ‘Lone Survivor’
Peter Berg, director of last year’s megabomb Battleship, returns with another over-the-top dud. This time, he offers us a war film based on tragic true events — the 2005 massacre of a group of Navy...
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Book Review: ‘No Good Men Among the Living’ by Anand Gopal
It’s easy to think about armed conflict with another country as “us vs. them.” But it’s wrong. After all, “them” is not just the “enemy;” it includes those who support “us.” And not even those...
View ArticleBook Review: To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan...
Inherent in any book about current events or current affairs is the problem of lag time, the time from experiencing the events to writing about them to the book actually ending up in stores. Some of...
View ArticleBook Review: Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban by Jere Van Dyk
Sadly, over the last couple decades, we’ve seen a growth in a particular type of nonfiction — accounts by journalists and others of being held captive by warring or hostile political factions. While...
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The Forgotten Victims of the Conflict in Pakistan
Laiba is a seven year old girl who lives in Pakistan. Like kids everywhere, she likes to look at magazines. She keeps with her some pictures she cut out from them. But these are not pictures of a movie...
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Interview: Catholic Relief Services in Afghanistan
Afghans face a daily struggle against poverty. The basics of food, water, medicine, education, and shelter are hard to reach for millions in the country. It is the war against poverty in Afghanistan...
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Movie Review: Hell and Back Again
I put off viewing Hell and Back Again because I was expecting a heavy-handed anti-war diatribe. What I found, however, was a creative and intimate portrait of one of our nation’s warriors. The...
View ArticleBook Review: Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan by Zarghuna...
With reflections from all and sundry on a decade of war in Afghanistan everywhere just now, there could hardly be a better time to read Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan. The cover...
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