Posts Tagged ‘Nobel Prize’

Video : Alaa Al Aswany on Riz Khan’s ‘One on One’

In fame, History, News, Opinion, Politics, TV on 21 February 2011 tagged Abbas El Aswany, Alaa Al Aswany, Cairo, Chicago, egypt, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hosni Mobarak, Hosni Mubarak, Huffington Post, Husni Mubarak, Kefaya, Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, New Zealand, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, One on One, Riz Khan, The Yacoubian Building, TV, Victor Hugo, Video, Yacoubian Building, Youtube with no comments

In a 2009 episode of his show One on One, “the Oprah of Al Jazeera” (which is selling him short) Riz Khan spoke to the Arab world’s best-selling novelist Alaa Al Aswany. Avid readers of Al Aswany’s works will see some of the ideas about Egyptian society in Al Aswany’s novel in his answers to [...]

Dr. Bashardost on Karzai and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Deserving of Nobel Prizes in Election Fraud

In Afghanistan, citizenship, Crime, fame, History, News, Opinion, Politics on 2 November 2009 tagged #Afghanelection, Afghan election, Afghanistan, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Dr. Ramazan Bashardost, ECC, Election, Election Complaints Commission, Election Fraud, Electoral Complaints Commission, Hamid Karzai, IEC, Independent Election Commission, Kabul, Mr. Bean, Nobel Prize, Presidential Election, run-off, runoff, runoff election, taliban, Times of London, Video, Violence, Vote Fraud, Voter Fraud with no comments

In an interview dated today, the Times of London spoke to Dr. Ramazan Bashardost who came in third in the August Presidential elections in Afghanistan. Dr. Bashardost takes Dr. Abdullah and Hamid Karzai to task as two parts of the same problem in Afghanistan. According to Dr. Bashardost, no change can come to Afghanistan until [...]

Christiane Amanpour : Iranian Revolution of ’79 ‘Is What Made Me Want to be a Journalist’

In citizenship, Crime, fame, History, Internet, Iran, Iraq, Islam, News, Opinion, Politics, religion, TV, Twitter, War on 23 June 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Facebook, Faezeh Rafsanjani, Green Revolution, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Hashimi Rafsanjani, Human Rights, Iran, Iranian election, Iranian Revolution, Karoubi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mohammed Khatami, Mohsen Rezae, Mousavi, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize, protest, Sea of Green, Shirin Ebadi, Tehran, Twitter, Women's Rights, Youtube, Zahra Rahnavard with no comments

CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour, spoke to Lesley Stahl about Iran, the role of commentators in the media, why Twitter and Youtube dispatches have not lead to a true understanding of the situation in the streets of Iran, and the resilience of Iranian women: On Accusations Against International Media by Khamenei: “Obviously CNN is [...]