. . . from the opening shimmering, evocative western and Arab strings followed by an extraordinary tympani high on the ramparts by a slip of a girl knocking seven mighty shades out of a colossal tambour. I was hooked from that moment on.
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Film, Media, Middle East, World music, multiculturalism
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Tagged Armand Amar, Bab Makina, Diad Damia, Enkjargal Dandarvaanchig, eric clapton, Fez, Fez festival of sacred music, Gombodorj Byambajarga, hegira, John J Kelly, layla, Layla and Majnun, legend of layla and majnun, mongolian throat singing, Mulawwah, Riad Damia, Sufis, Thusmagazine in Fez, Umayyad, world music
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August 23, 2009 – 7:12 pm
Over the past three days, as the Lockerbie ‘terrorist’ release turns into a full-blown international incident, we have heard not one word, or even a Twitter, from the man who saved the wurreld (and its banks). This is highly unusual; Gordon and his wife Sarah Twittered from Inverkilliecrankie, or wherever they are on holiday, catching [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Global security, Human rights, International Affairs, Law and order, Libya, Middle East, Totalitarian drift, US Politics, War on Terror, democracy, extradition, human rights abuse, miscarriage of justice
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Tagged Add new tag, admitted discussing the subject a couple of weeks ago with Colonel Gaddafi's son Saif at the Rothschild villa in Corfu, by John J Kelly, Colonel Gaddafi, David Miliband, FBI head Robert Mueller, Gordon Brown, Gordon Brown's silence, Iran Air, kenny MacAskill, Libya, Mandelson, Mandelson has prosptate operation in sympathy with al Megrahi, Pan Am Flight 103, Prince Andrew, Saif-al-Islam Gaddafi, Scottish National Party
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A couple of months ago I went to Eastern Ethiopia with my friend Simon Biltcliffe. It was mind-altering in many ways, not least because we travelled from London to the eastern region, near(ish) to the Somalian border and back to London in four days. Economy all the way, I might add. We landed in the [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Barack Obama, Development, Ethiopia, Human rights, Somalia, food
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Africa, AlchemyWorld, Arthur Rimbaud, Babile, Barack Obama, Bob Geldof, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, Harar, Hyena Man of Harar, planned philanthropy, Sir Richard Burton, Somalia, Webmart Business School
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December 5, 2008 – 11:51 am
By John J Kelly On December 4 2008 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the practice of holding DNA samples of more than 1 million UK citizens, some as young as 10 years old, who have no criminal record but who have been investigated in the course of police enquiries, is contrary to Article [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in EU policy, Europe, George W Bush, International Affairs, Law and order, Politics, Visual Arts, citizens' rights, extradition, human rights abuse
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Tagged Bush, by John J Kelly, Cheney, European Court of Human Rights, George W Bush, Hague, ICC, IHT, International Criminal Court, Roger Cohen, Tony Blair, western values
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November 24, 2008 – 8:42 pm
Thanks to Jack Roberts of Big Idea and the Herald Sun for pointing out that Saint Bob Geldof charged $100,000 to speak in Australia recently about ‘the tragedy of world famine.’ Guests weren’t told that it was a paid gig, by no means the first, for Geldof, friend of the man who has done a [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Business, Celebrity, Development, Environment, George W Bush
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Tagged 15 seconds of fame, Aid, Bob Geldof, Celebrity, Development, famine, George W Bush
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November 24, 2008 – 9:55 am
Pirates are suddenly everywhere: Indian Navy sinks Pirate Ship, Somali Pirates Hijack Saudi Oil Tanker: Cadbury’s Old Jamaica chocolate bar futures are set to surge. Why the sudden interest? Piracy is not new. Nor is this revival of interest so ephemeral either. We have had quite a few Pirates of the Caribbean to contend with [...]
By Daniel Taghioff
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Also posted in Asia, Business, Cinema, Culture, Development, India, Law and order, Politics, Shipping, Somalia
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Tagged bio-piracy, climate change, contraction and convergence, Ecology, melting ice caps, Pirates of the Caribbean, process of enclosure, software piracy, Somali pirates
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November 16, 2008 – 11:30 pm
The mantra of the Third Way seems to be about “capabilities”. UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband pontificated in The New Statesman that this it is about creating an “I can” society. But what exactly is the point of all this? Coming from a Development background, it took me a while to realise that all politics, [...]
By Daniel Taghioff
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Also posted in Asia, Business, Development, Economics, Environment, Human rights, India, Politics, food
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Tagged development studies, Economics, Giddens, human capital, India, international politics, middle way, Miliband, neocons, New Labour, political theory, wonkstuff
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