Barbara Smith

Articles by Barbara Smith

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King of the shifting sands

  • 29 November 2007
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Caught at the volatile crossroads of the Middle East, Hussein of Jordan kept his desert kingdom together with charm, courage and guile.

Peace in our times

  • 13 March 2006

The People on the Street: a writer's view of Israel Linda Grant Virago, 214pp, £9.99 ISBN 1844082547

Life of exile

  • 31 January 2005

Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah diaries Suad Amiry Granta Books, 194pp, £12.99 ISBN 1862077215

America's next target

  • 18 October 2004

By keeping the rest of the world guessing about its nuclear capacity, Tehran has raised talk of war to dangerous levels in Washington and Tel Aviv

Palestine - How the chance of peace slipped away

  • 12 July 2004

Negotiations - A decade ago, the leaders of the two sides shook hands on the White House lawn, and a settlement seemed within reach. Where did it all go wrong?

Palestine - Back to ethnic cleansing?

  • 12 July 2004

The future - As attitudes harden, the region faces terrible possibilities, including population transfer

The men of war

  • 26 April 2004

Barbara Smith judges that the chances for Arab-Israeli peace are as bleak as they have ever been. Yet this dispute over a tiny bit of land - which resonates from Morocco to Pakistan - ought to be easily resolvable

As the death toll rises, a region holds its breath

  • 19 April 2004

Iraq - Jordan fears a backlash against its support of America; Syria worries about economic sanctions for its anti-US stand. The Middle East feels jittery, reports Barbara Smith

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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