by marywald | Mar 18, 2020
In the last two weeks I have taken six flights to three countries in Asia. At each airport, before landing, I filled out a yellow card, checking off any symptoms of illness. My temperature was then screened before I was allowed to enter the country. The only country...
by marywald | Aug 10, 2017
Mujtaba al-Sweika, a bright 18-year-old student in Saudi Arabia, was on his way to visit Western Michigan University in 2012 when he was arrested in the airport in Riyadh. He was one of 14, largely young men, arrested for taking part in a protest.Among his charges is...
by marywald | May 23, 2017
When Terry George, director of Hotel Rwanda, in the Name of the Father, Some Mother’s Son and others, first showed The Promise at Toronto Film Festival, there were suddenly more negative reviews on IMDB than people who had even seen the movie. Other surreptitious...
by marywald | Sep 14, 2016
This election is not a measure of Donald Trump’s worth against Hillary’s. It’s not even a measure of who runs the best campaign or who most effectively discredits the other. It is a measure of how many people there are in this country who, in our arrogance, we simply...
by marywald | Sep 4, 2015
The Refugee Crisis: Short and Long Term Solutions Ramos-Horta addresses solution to the 60 million refugees and internally displaced peoples in search of safety, shelter, a home and a future across the globe. read it on Huffington...
