Middle East Panorama 03 August 2008

Title: Middle East Panorama 03 August 2008

Description: Obituary: More celebrated abroad than in his own country, Yousssed Chahine tried every film genre, from historical epic to musical comedy. The Egyptian director, who died last Sunday, 27 July in Cairo, received the lifetime achievement award on the fiftieth anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival in 1997. Jean Renoir once remarked that in the work of his Egyptian fellow film director Youssef Chahine, "reality is always enchanting".>> The recent bombing that rocketed Turkey is only another symptom of a wider crisis in the country's socio-political secene of the last 4 decades. Cihan Tugal is a Turkish analyst who teaches sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. According to Tugal," the AKP is more a market fundamentalist party than an Islamic fundamentalist one". In this interview he draws a distinction between the Kemalists and the conservatives and provides the background of the situation in Turkey. >> In an article published by Challenge Magazine entitled "Why Israel Can't Attack Iran". The Israeli activist Roni Ben Efrat lists three major obstacles that impede an Israeli attack on Iran.

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