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Press Releases: Briefing on the Release of the 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights PracticesThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 6:42PMBriefing on the Release of the 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Michael H. Posner Assistant Secretary , Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Washington, DC March 11, 2010 ASSISTANT SECRETARY POSNER: Thank you, Secretary Clinton, and welcome. I want to just, if I may, say a few introductory words about the report and something about the trends we see, and then open it up for ...

THE BOY WHO CLIMBED INTO THE MOONThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 6:29PMThe Arabian Nights: A New Edition March 01, 2010 - The most famous tales in The Arabian Nights have flown far beyond the confines of the night-shrouded bedroom in which Scheherazade spins stories to the vengeful king who will kill her come morning (unless she makes sure he just has to know what happens next).

Reading all over the world: The long-list for this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize spans the globeThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 6:24PMThe numbers fell; but not the scope or the quality. A preference for safe bets and low horizons in recession-era publishing did serve to thin the field of translated fiction published in the UK during 2009. Entries for this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shrank by more than a quarter. That only means, take note, that the total of titles considered by the judges (Tibor Fischer, Kate ...

Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, By Jeffrey HerfThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 6:23PMAlthough Jeffrey Herf's book mostly chronicles German radio broadcasts to the Arab world during the Second World War, it also covers German propaganda directed at Turkey and Iran, as well as Italian propaganda to the Arabs. In addition he pays a lot of attention to the activities of the notorious Palestinian leader, Haj Amin el-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.

Boyd Tonkin: Stories from the shifting sandsThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 6:21PMWhat do you call a monarchy in which a popular reformist politician-writer can enjoy the warm support of the ruling dynasty but still find some of his books banned from sale at home? There can be only one answer: the unpredictable Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The author in question, novelist and minister of labour Ghazi al-Gosaibi, is living proof that the gnarly contradictions that encumber ...

Peter Moore and his days in captivityThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 6:19PMMay 29, 2007 Five British contractors are seized by 40 armed men in police uniforms at the Finance Ministry. They are taken in the direction of Baghdad’s sprawling Shia district of Sadr City. One of the hostages is Peter Moore, an IT consultant from Lincoln, working for a US management consultancy.

Filmmakers create a genre unknown in FranceThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 6:14PMUnlike the U.S., France has no tradition of prison movies. So recently when a film opened in French cinemas about a young man trying to survive in a brutal Paris prison it electrified audiences. Now Minnesota audiences can see the movie, called "A Prophet," when it opens this weekend.

Yemen holds NJ man after al-Qaida sweep, shootoutThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:59PMHe was raised in New Jersey, where he was on the high school wrestling team and earned a black belt in karate. Nearly a decade later, Sharif Mobley is under arrest in Yemen, suspected of being an

US police departments seeking more bilingual copsThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:57PMSeth Wenig / AP NYPD police officer Michael Belogorodsky (left) speaks Russian with a man in New York on Sunday.