September 01, 2008

Post on China in US occupied zones-- at Japan Focus

The folks at Japan Focus have republished my recent JWN post on some implications of China's investments in Iraq and Afghanistan. What's more, they did a light edit on it...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:15 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

August 04, 2008

My piece in the CSM on ending the Iraqi & Afghan wars

Here it is in today's paper. (It's also archived here.) The headline is good (if not terribly snappy... but then, who needs snappy?): The U.N. can end these wars: It...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:28 AM | Fulltext link (7 comments)

June 01, 2008

Essays by HC in 'Boston Review', since 2001

Nearly all these articles contain considerable amounts of material from interviews and other information gained during on-the-spot reporting trips, as well as analysis and reflections: Breakout: Hamas and the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:02 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

HC writings on Hamas, 2006-2008

One strategy you can always pursue is to check out my writings on Hamas, both those published here on JWN and (links to) those published elsewhere, by going to the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:19 AM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

May 15, 2008

Re-engage update

I put a couple more interesting posts onto the Re-engage book's blog this week. This one has a fascinating map showing how, in a time of high oil prices, life...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:38 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

May 14, 2008

Re-engage book, launch news

My Re-engage! book has been getting a good soft roll-out already. But next week we have the first two significant launch events-- one in Charlottesville, VA and the other in...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:56 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

April 25, 2008

CSM piece on America-World relations, today

I have a big piece in the CSM today that urges Americans to build a relationship with the rest of the world on the basis of strong commitment to the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 07:59 AM | Fulltext link (13 comments)

April 19, 2008

"Re-engage!"-- the book is here!

Yesterday I got my hands on the first copies of my upcoming book Re-engage! America and the World After Bush. It is so exciting! Paradigm Publishers have done a fabulous...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:02 AM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

March 20, 2008

New book, 'Re-engage' goes to press; website launched!

So here we are! The great folks at Paradigm Publishers told me my upcoming book Re-engage! America and the World After Bush went to press today-- and we are now...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:43 PM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

February 21, 2008

Article-- and audio-- on Lebanon in CSM

My piece on Why Lebanon hasn't slipped into civil war is in Friday's Christian Science Monitor. (Here, and archived here.) If you go to the first of those links, you...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:56 PM | Fulltext link (17 comments)

February 20, 2008

'Economist' rips me off

Interesting that the Economist recently used a quote from the portion of my January 16 interview with Khaled Meshaal that had been published on the Foreign Policy website, by agreement....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:57 PM | Fulltext link (13 comments)

February 07, 2008

Where did my 5th blogiversary go to, anyway?

I've been pretty busy this week-- including on a special project, see below. So though yesterday was my 5th blogiversary I completely forgot about marking that fact here. Darn! It's...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:55 AM | Fulltext link (12 comments)

January 30, 2008

Meshaal interview at 'Foreign Policy' website

A condensed version of my Jan. 16th interview with Hamas head Khaled Meshaal is now published on the website of Foreign Policy magazine. Under my agreement with them, they have...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:21 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

January 01, 2008

My article on the post-9/11 world in 'Friends Journal'

Earlier this year I had a strong leading, as we Quakers say, to do more writing for a specifically Quaker audience. This is a part, really, of the personal/spiritual journey...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:54 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

Michael Massing, on Iraq

Michael Massing of Columbia Journalism Review has two excellent pieces in the current and upcoming issues of the New York Review of Books; and luckily for us they both available...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:30 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

November 13, 2007

New blogging gig on urban transportation systems

I have a new little blogging gig-- a periodic feature called "Eyes on the Street" over at The City Fix, which is a blog published by the Washington DC-based World...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:54 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

November 03, 2007

Article in The Nation on Hamas and Hizbullah

I see that The Nation has put up on its website a teaser for a piece I wrote for them about a month ago, which is on the need for...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:38 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

October 29, 2007

Book-writing progress report

In my experience, birthing a book is similar to publishing a family in the sense that, once you've done it, you look at the product-- beautifully produced books that can...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:57 AM | Fulltext link (7 comments)

October 03, 2007

Piece in CSM today on Bush and global warming

I have a non-column in the CSM today on climate-change. The title is "Bush's good idea on global warming." Don't let that put anyone off reading it! I start the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 07:44 AM | Fulltext link (8 comments)

September 25, 2007

Bookwriting "Mission Accomplished"

Well I haven't decided which aircraft carrier to make a showboat appearance on yet... Gotta try on my fighter-aircraft piloting duds and have the midshipmen paint the banner... Nah, that...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:03 AM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

August 29, 2007

Bush fiddles, world warms, China 'rises'

The work on my current book project has been going generally well. When I'm working on a big project like this, the writing I do when I'm writing sometimes feels...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:22 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

August 17, 2007

Fasting from blogging is good for productivity...

Okay, my current blog-fast has lasted nearly five whole days. In that period I've wrestled with some big issues in Chapter 4 of my new book and.... just about nailed...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:09 PM | Fulltext link (7 comments)

July 23, 2007

My new book: Help with mapping and other graphics

I wrote here about the new book project I'm currently working on. I'd really like any help any of you can give (or link to) regarding production of good graphics...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:32 PM | Fulltext link (7 comments)

July 21, 2007

My new book project, & a request

I know that my posting here at JWN has been a little episodic in recent weeks. One big reason is that I've been working on conceptualizing and pulling together the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:10 PM | Fulltext link (29 comments)

July 09, 2007

Three on Africa

In a fit of hyper-productivity I just put three posts on Transitional Justice issues in sub-Saharan Africa up onto the Transitional Justice Forum blog. They are on Uganda, Sudan (including...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:39 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

June 24, 2007

Reconciliation, from Africa to the Middle East

Actually, the reason that I received a paper copy of the latest issue of the Palestine-Israel Journal, which I have just written about on JWN here, is that it...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:20 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

June 05, 2007

Changes ahead at the CSM

This note in today's Christian Science Monitor informs the world of something that I learned of only on Sunday, namely that at the end of June all five other regular...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:01 PM | Fulltext link (15 comments)

March 19, 2007

HC column on big trends in Arab world

... Just out in Tuesday's CSM. Read it....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 06:34 PM | Fulltext link (8 comments)

March 08, 2007

CSM column on Syria

Here is the column I had in the CSM today. (It is also here.) The editors put this title on it: The time is ripe for the US to engage...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:18 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

February 06, 2007

JWN celebrates 4th blogiversary

Gosh, has it been four years already? And who knows, one day I might even figure out what I want to do with this blog... I sometimes look up from...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 06:59 AM | Fulltext link (14 comments)

January 13, 2007

33-day war article, footnoted version

I have just uploaded to my home website a late-draft and footnoted version of the text of my recent Boston Review article on the 33- Day war between Israel and...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:43 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

January 10, 2007

Day of Shame: Five years of Guantanamo

Jan. 11 is the fifth anniversary of the arrival of the first group of prisoners at Guantanamo. Some of those original 20 men are still there today, having been through...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:32 PM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

January 01, 2007

How to withdraw from Iraq

• My "3-step withdrawal program" of Jan., 2007, and my "Namibia plan for Iraq" of Nov., 2006. • My Christian Science Monitor columns from Oct. 2006 and June 2006 on...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:44 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

December 22, 2006

New site to read and discuss the ISG report

The Institute for the Future of the Book and Lapham's Quarterly, which is edited by former Harper's magazine editor Lewis Lapham, have established a new website that will enable a...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:24 AM | Fulltext link (7 comments)

November 28, 2006

Saudi 'Mystique' alive and still writing

The Saudi woman blogger 'Mystique' left a comment on JWN yesterday pointing out that the reason her earlier blog was down for a while was because I sort of lost...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:13 PM | Fulltext link (12 comments)

November 18, 2006

My BR article on the 33-day war

It's finally here: The 33-Day War: Hizbullah’s victory, Israel’s choice, the piece I wrote back in late August/early September about the Israel-Hizbullah war. Yesterday I went over to BR's new...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:59 AM | Fulltext link (9 comments)

October 11, 2006

CSM column calls for US pullout from Iraq, accountability

Here's my column in the CSM of Thursday, October 12. The title is Bush created a mess in Iraq. Here's how to clean it up. The subtitle is: It's time...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:27 PM | Fulltext link (36 comments)

September 29, 2006

Back to JWN

Phew! My horrible time/work crunch is now over. I had a really busy schedule planned for this week, and then on Mon. afternoon Deb Chasman at Boston Review sent me...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:07 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

September 13, 2006

My 'Atrocities' book-- about to ship!

I can't figure out why I'm so excited about my new book, Amnesty After Atrocity?: Healing Nations After Genocide and War Crimes... Maybe because it was a new, intellectually challenging,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:45 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

September 11, 2006

9/11 article in Tom Paine

TomPaine.com today carries a piece I wrote for them to mark the fifth anniversary of 9/11....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:25 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

September 03, 2006

Article-writing lockdown here

I just have to intensify the article-writing lockdown I've been trying to impose on myself for the past week. For some reason this Boston Review piece is proving hard to...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:36 PM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

August 22, 2006

'Peace after Lebanon' at TomPaine.com

I did another piece for TomPaine.com at the end of last week, and I see it's up on their site today. Astute JWN readers will see it's an updated combination...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:38 PM | Fulltext link (10 comments)

August 09, 2006

My CSM column on the need for speedy, comprehensive Israeli-Arab peace

The Christian Science Monitor of Thursday carries my column on what to do about Lebanon (also here.) The editors there titled it For a lasting Middle East peace, look back...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:23 PM | Fulltext link (66 comments)

My upcoming book: paperback and hardcover

I've been working with the good folks at Paradigm Publishers who will be releasing the hardcover edition of my book Amnesty after Atrocity?: Healing Nations after Genocide and War Crimes...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:20 AM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

July 09, 2006

The new haves vs. the have-nots: Broadband

With all the horrendous conflicts escalating in the Middle East, it may seem a tad trite to observe the obvious – that monitoring the world via the internet without broadband...
Posted by Scott Harrop at 10:00 PM | Fulltext link (8 comments)

July 01, 2006

Got broadband, succumbed briefly to blog-addiction

Spouse made slight error in planning last night and we ended up in a place with in-room broadband. It has proved a little distracting, as you can see. Now I'm...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:31 AM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

June 16, 2006

Every heart a peace factory!

Whew!! I just finished the painstaking process of going over the page proofs for my upcoming book Amnesty After Atrocity? Healing Nations After Genocide and War Crimes. The page layout...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:58 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

June 02, 2006

Article on East Timor in TomPaine.com

I have a piece on TomPaine.com today, about East Timor. It was a good experience working with them. Their turnround time on the piece was about one hour. So it...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:05 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

May 09, 2006

Too much work on dead-tree publications!

My schedule has been crazy. Last week I got back the copyedited and laid-out versions of two significant longer articles that I needed to review very carefully. One was my...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:36 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

March 21, 2006

The international courts discussion grows

Well, my article in Foreign Policy on international war-crimes courts has been getting a gratifying amount of attention. My intention in publishing it was, after all, to open up the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:27 PM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

March 16, 2006

CSM column on the Israeli election

The CSM today published my column on the Israeli election (here and here). It underlines the fact that in this election, the main platform plank of the front-running party is...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:26 AM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

March 02, 2006

Articles in Salon.com, Foreign Policy

So the piece I wrote for Salon on Hamas went up onto their site last night. It's here. If you don't have a subscription you just have to sit through...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:47 AM | Fulltext link (9 comments)

February 25, 2006

Still in receive mode here

I hope that y'all are sitting on the edge of your chairs to see what I'll be reporting during my time here in Israel/Palestine. It will come. But I'm still...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:35 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

February 13, 2006

Africa book re-edit finished

So I finished it today, coming in with a whole text that I feel fairly good about and that is under 94,000 words... Plus, two days before deadline. At times...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:36 PM | Fulltext link (12 comments)

February 06, 2006

JWN's third blogiversary

Has it been three years already since JWN's inaugural post? It has indeed.. And what a three years it has been... Most of it, alas, dominated by the US invasion...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:19 PM | Fulltext link (10 comments)

January 22, 2006

Writing and life

Yesterday, I completed the revision of the Rwanda section of my upcoming book. I had to cut it from three chapters to one (!) ... I was also trying to...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:15 AM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

January 12, 2006

CSM column on Israel and Palestine

Here is the column I have in the CSM today, on the implications of the leadership crises in Israel and Palestine....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:16 AM | Fulltext link (16 comments)

January 05, 2006

Some recent Hayat pieces

Y'all know I write periodic columns for al-Hayat. I frequently don't see them when they come out in Arabic, because I make a bee-line for the news pages and find...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:53 PM | Fulltext link (10 comments)

January 02, 2006

New URL for my homepage

I've had my home web-page hosted by the University of Virginia for four or five years now. But over the holiday I got kicked off their server. Grrr. Tech advisor...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:00 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

November 10, 2005

CSM column on France (and Europe)

It's been a really busy week. Monday, I had a deadline for my CSM column for this week. I started out writing something about the Middle East, and at around...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:42 PM | Fulltext link (11 comments)

September 20, 2005

Calling US radio listeners

National Public Radio, Wednesday, 2:15 through 2:35 p.m. or so, on "Talk of the Nation"... I'll be talking (from London) about the need to withdraw US forces from Iraq. [That...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:51 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

September 08, 2005

CSM column on the US and the UN

I have a column in the CSM today about the importance of the UN to the US. It decries the bullying tactics that John Bolton has used since his arrival...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:13 AM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

July 21, 2005

The woman behind the byline

... Hannah Allam, that is, the talented and incredibly courageous 27-year-old journo who's been running Knight Ridder's Baghdad bureau since late 2003. That nice profile of her there, from Editor...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:00 AM | Fulltext link (12 comments)

July 17, 2005

Notes from a busy Sunday

This morning our Quaker Meeting held its regular (generally monthly) "Meeting for Worship with a concern for Business". Since we don't have a paid minister, it's the responsibility of all...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:19 PM | Fulltext link (58 comments)

July 14, 2005

CSM column on NZ

The column I wrote earlier this week on New Zealand is in today's Christian Science Monitor. They cut it pretty drastically and I see now there's a little bit of...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:29 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

May 16, 2005

Passages

Saturday was a big day. At 6 a.m., in northern California, my beloved mother-in-law DQ passed away, just one day short of her 98th birthday. She was an amazing woman...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:51 AM | Fulltext link (14 comments)

May 10, 2005

Africa book, chapter 11 (again)

So just in case any of you is sitting there thinking, "I wonder how Helena's getting on with finishing her long-awaited (!) book on violence and conflict termination in Africa?".......
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:17 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

April 11, 2005

Hizbullah article appears

The article on Hizbullah that I worked on over the Christmas holiday weeks has finally come out. It's in the April-May issue of Boston Review. Knowing that the text would...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:51 PM | Fulltext link (8 comments)

March 23, 2005

Wanted: some respect!

I was, I think, one of the first, back in February, to point out that the complicated system put in place in Iraq by Paul Bremer's bizarre and almost...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:07 AM | Fulltext link (10 comments)

March 09, 2005

CSM column Thursday

I have a column in Thursday's CSM. It's titled Time to end US cotton subsidies, and it celebrates the recent WTO ruling in favor of Brazil and against the US...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:47 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

March 01, 2005

Hard at work here

I've been working hard at making myself get my Africa book finished. Since I also have a life (okay, this may come as a surprise to some blog-readers), this means...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:59 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

February 24, 2005

CSM column on post-Hariri Lebanon

Today's CSM has my column on post-Hariri Lebanon. It's titled: Can real peace take root in Lebanon? Let's hope so! There have been some encouraging signs, as noted in the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:20 AM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

February 14, 2005

A Valentine from the WaPo

Well, you know that in some places around the world, women's rights, interests, and voice have been getting progressively devalued over recent years (while in others they've been becoming progressively...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 07:59 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

February 10, 2005

A little writing crisis here

Really interesting things are happening all over the world. The North Koreans have announced they have nuclear weapons... The Iraqi election commission has announced yet more problems in ballot-counting, necessitating...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:04 PM | Fulltext link (7 comments)

January 24, 2005

Women getting WaPo-ed, update

Week 5 of the WGW watch has just finished. It was a "banner" week. 5.5 of the 34 op-ed articles published in the WaPo since last Tuesday were by women,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:04 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

January 06, 2005

A new day

I've been struggling with the Comments boards here on JWN for some time now. Yesterday, I felt I learned something new about what's been going on. As someone who works...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:33 AM | Fulltext link (13 comments)

January 03, 2005

Women getting WaPo-ed

Okay, readers, so what proportion of the wisdom of the human race do you think resides in the minds of the world's women? Fifty percent, perhaps? That might be a...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:38 AM | Fulltext link (10 comments)

January 02, 2005

Hizbullah: the discussion resumes

Okay. Commenter Dominic, who appealed my decision to close the Comments board on the recent Lebanon's Hizbullah post, wins. (At least, I think "appealing" was what you were doing, Dominic?)...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 07:08 PM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

December 21, 2004

Women and the WaPo

Item 1: The lede paragraph of a review in last Friday's WaPo of a new Chinese-made movie: The experience of "House of Flying Daggers" isn't like going to a movie...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:48 AM | Fulltext link (7 comments)

December 16, 2004

CSM column on Iran (and CAMERA letter)

The CSM ran my column on Iran in today's edition. I think it came out pretty well despite some hasty last-minute edits. In addition, today was the day they finally...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:33 AM | Fulltext link (13 comments)

December 09, 2004

CSM column on Syria

Today's CSM has the column I wrote for them about (and from) Syria. Again, I'm not really happy with the title they chose. Plus, in the CSM's own version of...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:12 AM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

December 06, 2004

Inconveniences of travel

It's Monday morning in Philadelphia. We flew (back) here yesterday from Beirut, transiting through Paris-Charles de Gaulle. None of the four bags we checked made the connection. Grrr. We met...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 06:05 AM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

December 03, 2004

"Islamo-fascist slut" fights back (peacefully)

The Comments boards here on JWN have hosted some really great discussions. They also, sadly, host some really nasty, commercially generated spam, much of it pornographic, that I'm constantly trying...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:58 PM | Fulltext link (17 comments)

November 20, 2004

On the road to Damascus

In about an hour I'll be leaving Beirut to go to Damascus for a few days. Returning here Wednesday. Then next weekend (God, or mainly the Iranian visa authorities, willing)...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:53 AM | Fulltext link (9 comments)

September 06, 2004

How's your Arabic?

You could test it out by reading this column of mine, that appeared in al-Hayat today....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:48 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

August 21, 2004

Pray for peace in Najaf (& new Golden Oldies here)

I just put up two more months' worth of Golden Oldies onto the sidebar here. Last November was quite a momentous month for Iraq! October was a momentous month for...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:41 PM | Fulltext link (15 comments)

July 13, 2004

Wiped

I'm wiped. I finished writing the section of my book on Rwanda today. And I don't even have energy for blogging. What's happening here?? Don't worry. I'll be back tomorrow...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:00 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

July 08, 2004

Our Quaker book on Israel/Palestine--finally!

Finally! After long labors, the book-length report that 14 of us--nearly all Quakers--have written on the Israel/Palestine situation is out. (Quaker process takes a famously long time, but we did...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:30 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

June 15, 2004

Guess who?

She writes civilized yet passionate journal entries, focused on international affairs. The look of the page is cool--as are the colors. Her background and experience make her deeply credible... This,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:27 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

June 09, 2004

New York, CSM column on China, etc

I've been in New York since I flew in here from Toronto on Sunday evening. Monday, I suddenly remembered I needed to write not one but two columns for The...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:24 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

May 17, 2004

From Dar al-Hayat's English-language website

I've been trying to discuss reproduction rights issues with my editors at Al-Hayat for some time now. (No, that does not mean abortion issues. It means reproduction of the columns...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:57 PM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

May 14, 2004

CSM column on Iraq

The column I had in yesterday's Christian Science Monitor was on Iraq. It's titled "A pattern of culpability in Iraq". Regular readers of JWN may find quite a few familiar...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 12:13 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

April 17, 2004

Gaza article, etc.

Finally! The Boston Review article I wrote about Gaza has been put up on their website. You can read it here. I wrote it in late February and revised it...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:35 PM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

March 31, 2004

Voices from Mozambique

I've been struggling quite a bit with (re-)shaping and (re-)writing the section on Mozambique for my current book-writing project, "Violence and its legacies". Actually, the conference I went to on...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:50 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

March 18, 2004

New CSM column out today

Here is my latest CSM column, out today. The editors there put a good headline on it: Movement controls stunt Palestinian lives - and democracy. I mentioned in there that...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:01 AM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

March 10, 2004

CSM column on Gaza, Arafat

Here's a link to my column in Thursday's Christian Science Monitor. I had to do huge rewrite right up against deadline, for reasons I shan't go into here. So it's...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:39 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

January 07, 2004

New CSM column: the U.S. and the rest

My latest column is in Thursday's Christian Science Monitor. It's a call for US citizens to start reflecting seriously on our rightful place in the world. I ask, "How, during...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:19 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

December 10, 2003

Dec 11 CSM column now on web

My latest Christian Science Monitor column is now up on the CSM website. You can read it here. It's titled 'Made in Israel' crackdowns in Iraq won't work, and it...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:48 PM | Fulltext link (18 comments)

November 09, 2003

Nose to authorial grindstone here

I've had the nose to the grindstone here since Friday a.m. First, I finished final edit on a long piece about the Int'l Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda that the Boston...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:45 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

September 09, 2003

A columnist's job is never done

I just finished writing my CSM column for this Thursday's paper (9/11). As soon as I get to the published version, as usual I'll put up a link to it....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:10 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

August 18, 2003

Heathrow

Finally, I'm able to get a link to the CSM column of mine that ran last Thursday, that provoked so many expressions of anger and hostility in the Comments sections...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 06:28 AM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

August 16, 2003

Short update from the UK

I'm writing this from my sister's computer in England. Interested to see the numbers of ardently pro-Israel people posting comments on my last post, on the CSM column of mine...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:20 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

July 27, 2003

NYC/Star Island reflections

Sunday morning in New York City's East Village. I'm writing this in Alt.coffee, an internet cafe facing Tompkins Square Park. Sunshine outside. Inside, heavy-metal music and air-conditioning. Intermittent short rushes...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 12:44 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

July 17, 2003

No time to write!

I've been crazy busy for the past two weeks. Haven't had a moment to write. And now I'm going off to a place where I'll have no net access for...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:19 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

July 08, 2003

Work, and a long weekend

I'm sorry I haven't posted much here recently, but I've been writing up two or three storms. "Real" writing, that is... working on this humungous great redrafting project I'm working...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:27 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

June 07, 2003

Heavy work zone ahead

I spent much of Thursday and Friday doing family stuff, what with Lorna's graduation, etc. Today after seeing Joe and Tarek off, I pulled out an essay I needed to...
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April 29, 2003

HAYAT COLUMN DEADLINE COMING UP:

HAYAT COLUMN DEADLINE COMING UP: Oh my goodness, it's nearly the end of the month. Which means I need to get my head around doing my next column for Al-Hayat....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:29 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

April 10, 2003

CSM COLUMN OUT TODAY

CSM COLUMN OUT TODAY: I have a column in the Christian Science Monitor today. I wrote it last weekend. It's titled, "Postwar shock and awe in the global economy". I...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:06 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

March 27, 2003

CSM COLUMN OUT TODAY; AL-HAYAT COLUMN YESTERDAY:

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March 24, 2003

BLOGGING AS FIVE-FINGER EXERCISES: For

BLOGGING AS FIVE-FINGER EXERCISES: For some reason, two of my sisters have both expressed a concern that my blogging "might be taking too much of my time". (All three of...
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