While Israeli Jewish children play at the beach, enjoy an afternoon at the cinema or congregate with friends in malls and clubs, the Muslim and Christian children of Gaza navigate a life of checkpoints, food shortages, bombings, targeted assassinations and humiliation. Promoting an acceptable image requires thousands of advocates, from editors and journalists to diplomats, politicians, advertising and public relations agencies, and network of grassroots activists dedicated to making sure very little about Israel's policies and actions makes it into the consciousness of the world community. Prize Winner Early one May afternoon I received the news from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Pilger that I and my respected colleague Dahr Jamail, an "unembedded" American journalist who cov...
... and role models--Dorothy Parker, Martha Gellhorn, Marguerite Higgins, and Pamela Harriman,...
She spends long periods of her life not writing, worrying about getting down to it, fearing she may not really be a writer; and then produces the most elegant, persuasive, rivetingly interesting English prose. Again, perhaps it's a matter of sticking around for long enough. She was a nomad for much of her life, lived in France, Italy, the U.S. as well as England and Germany. Her parents did not teach her to write and she spent only a short time at school learning how to actually form the letters, and then one day simply didn't go back. She picked up languages as she picked up manners, ideas, political realities. Martha Gellhorn, her friend, sent her to spy on some high-class Germans suspected of being Nazis after the war and they turn out to be old friends of [Sybille Bedford]'s pa...
Top Judge Says Shariah Could Be Used in Britain Controversy over shariah law was reignited by the Lord Chief Justice when he argued on July 3 that the Islamic legal code could be used to resolve disputes between Muslims in the U.K. Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, the most senior judge in England and Wales, ruled out the possibility of shariah courts sitting in Britain or handing down penalties. Israeli Military Said to Systematically Target Journalists Writing in the July edition of France's Le Monde Diplomatique, independent journalist Dahr Jamail contrasted his journey back to San Francisco from London, where he received the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, with that of his Palestinian colleague Mohammed Omer, with whom he shared the award (see August 2008 Washington Report, p...
Wrock for Darfur, 8/23, noon-dark, Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie, NY, rain or shine; all-day festival to raise awareness & funds for the people of Sudan. Through the merging of the Harry Potter fandom & Save Darfur efforts the event will both inform & excite attenders about becoming involved in the anti-genocide effort. The event will consist of a concert featuring Wizard Rock & local bands, a Horcrux Hunt, vendors, speakers, tea-leaf & crystal ball readings, face-painting, activism information, & food & games; www. wrockdarfur.com Agape Community's Tribute to Dan Berrigan, SJ, 10/4; Ware, MA; Father Dan Berrigan, a beloved & revered poet & peace activist, will read his poetry at this event, & Professor Michael True will provide a retrospective of Dan...
...He had just received the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, which he shared wit...
Martha Gellhorn was indubitably no coward, but she ran away far too often during her long life. She left Bryn Mawr without graduating, ditched all three husbands out of sheer restlessness, forsook America for Europe and then England for Africa. A bundle of contradictions, this high-powered foreign correspondent had grit, but at the first bump in the road, her instinct was to hit another road and, as she would have put it, get the hell out of there. This much is clear from reading these hundreds of letters selected from the thousands she wrote to famous and not-so-famous correspondents, each missive bearing the distinctive stamp of her personality and character.
GELLHORN: A TWENTIETH CENTURY LIFE, by Caroline Moorehead, Henry Holt, 480 pages, $27.50. I might never have heard of Martha Gellhorn had I not stumbled across a glowing review of her memoir, "Travels With Myself and Another," in, of all places, a travel column in the Los Angeles Times.
Killing the Messenger opens with short, engaging narratives about journalists reporting on conventionalwar.With sections devoted to personalities such as Martha Gellhorn, Ernie Pyle, Edward R.Murrow, andWalter Cronkite, the opening chapter is interesting reading. In a challenge to professional soldiers everywhere, Foerstel asks, What . . . makes journalists appropriate military targets? Acknowledging the complexity of the truth in Afghanistan and Iraq, he nevertheless says, For example,Western journalists are a minority among the war correspondents killed there in recent years, and American and Coalition troops are prominent among the killers.
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