the human province

I'm not sure why, but overnight, my internet connection stopped allowing me to connect to blogspot/blogger sites. I can connect from fri...

Jeffrey Goldberg has a dishonest account of Tom Segev's review of a book on Haj Amin al-Husseini up. He makes it sound like Segev is o...

Last night I saw a collection of Israeli and Palestinian short films about Jerusalem, one of which (made by an Israeli) took a look at the M...

It seems that Michael Totten's hackery isn't limited to Lebanon and the rest of the Arab world. Take a look here for an amusing tak...

I've just stumbled across an online version of George Orwell's diaries . I've only scratched the surface, but considering how mu...

For reasons I won't go into, I was at the American embassy a couple of times earlier this week. Draconian security measures notwithstand...

I've been really, really terrible about keeping the site updated. And for that I apologize. Before, I could blame the state of African t...

I was expecting a leisurely train ride through the inland to Lake Victoria from Dar-es-Salaam. That's not at all what I got. The train w...

Here are a couple of pictures I've taken so far: Giraffe on the road between Nairobi and Masai Mara Great Rift Valley Zebras in Masai Ma...

I left Dar-es-Salaam last night and thought I was well on my way to Lake Victoria, but then I fell asleep and woke up this morning to find m...