Assad memoir: “How I destroyed a country and got away with it”
SETH J. FRANTZMAN A transcript of the recent version of Assad’s memoir may have been smuggled out of Syria. Titled “how I destroyed my country and got away with it,” […]
Monthly Archives: July 2015
BBC’s ‘Panorama’ grinds its axe on Jerusalem’s light rail
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Last Friday the 24th BBC’s ‘Panorama’ aired a program of unprecedented bias attacking Jerusalem’s light rail. Titled ‘the train that divides Jerusalem’ it painted the train […]
‘Red’: A review of Adom in Jerusalem
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In The Jerusalem Post Billboard The red pepper was making me see double. Adom’s professional bartender at the restaurant’s well- stocked bar had just served up […]
Homeless in the Holy City
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Published in The Jerusalem Post’s In Jerusalem on July 17 It’s a Thursday night in Jerusalem – the time for parties, public drunkenness and revelry among […]
Interview with Saba Farzan: Losing the secular generation in Iran
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Originally publish on July 24 in The Jerusalem Post Magazine “We are used to just a few weeks of sunshine,” Saba Farzan, an Iranian journalist, remarks […]
Pro-peace means opposing Iran deal
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN You can oppose the Iran deal and be pro-peace, in fact the best reason to oppose the deal is because you believe in peace. Many articles […]
Iran deal lovers abandon Syrian refugees
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN There are two kinds of Iran deal lovers. Those who believe it represents “progress” and see Iran as essentially a decent country, and those who like […]
Setting sights on Galician horizons
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The sun’s rays dip beneath the soft and undulating foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. In spring the weather is still […]
Travel: Expanding Kurdistan horizons
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The men setting up a boom to hold lights for a stage below a giant plastic poster reading “#unite- 4heritage” […]
20 Myths about the Iran Deal
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Perhaps never in history has so much been written about a “deal”, particularly a “good deal” and a “bad deal.” Words lose their meaning when they […]
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