Last night, Katie Couric interviewed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on CBS. I think this could have been a good thing, but ultimately was totally meaningless. Couric is not a seasoned interviewer like Barbara Walters, in terms of getting the “big fish”, and I think she knows this, and tried to overcompensate by challenging Ahmadinejad on…

Ramadan is pan-Arab television’s holy land – a month-long sweeps, where the post-fasting masses hunger for entertainment. As a result, there is intense pressure to compete and innovate for new programming. One of the recent hits is Freej, the first 3D animated TV series for the region, about four diminutive veiled grandmothers. The show is…

…in that it is being hijacked by extremists who are not representative of the mainstream, but who inexplicably seem to be in control of the PR department. For better or worse – this is what the face of conservatism today looks like: The evident self-refuting nature of this does conservatism a grave injustice. I will…

… the voters are stirring, and speaking their will. The word democracy refers to a process, not an outcome. The outcome in this case is largely known; President Hamid Karzai is projected to win easily, even if his main challenger Abdullah Abdullah does manage to force a runoff. As far as the process goes, Taliban…

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