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Memoir of a Toronto icon: Siddiqui's 'My name is NOT Harry'

Haroon Siddiqui's 2023 memoir is a dazzling journey through Indian Sufism, pre-partition Muslim-Hindu harmony, the horrors of partition, a leap across the ocean to the middle of nowhere (sorry, Brandon Manitoba), finally finding his home at the Toronto Star, from whence, back to central Asia (Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India during the tumultuous 1979+), hobnobbing with media and political stars, stopping for heart surgery, all the time building and defending his new multicultural faith, adding his own distinct, Muslim flavour to what it means to be a Canadian. A whirlwind tour of the 20th-21st cc, as if by a latter day Muslim Christopher Columbus, one meant to try to undo the five centuries of imperialist horror that Columbus unleashed.

Presstv interview: Slava Ukraina vs public service demands

http://www.urmedium.com/c/presstv/123270 

Truth Jihad interview: America’s Defeat in Afghanistan: Divine Justice?

https://www.unz.com/audio/kbarrett_eric-walberg-on-americas-defeat-in-afghanistan-divine-justice/

Love in time of covid-19

Love in time of covid-19

I’m struck by the fact that all our pandemics, in fact all pandemics are courtesy of ‘civilization’, by which I mean agriculture, overcrowded cities, full of shit both animal and human, home of rats and fleas, carriers of plague. Our obsession with cheap meat means overcrowding, force feeding and ...

Timeline 2010-2019: United States&Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa&Asia

Timeline 2010-2019: United States&Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa&Asia

Note: Links are to my articles for Al-Ahram Weekly in Cairo, Presstv, DissidentVoice and other sitesMy Timelines 2000-2010: United States, Latin America, Europe, Africa&Asia are hereMy Timeline 2010-2019: Middle East here Timeline 2010-2019: United States&Canada 2010 *Republicans retake Ho...

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Canadian Eric Walberg is known worldwide as a journalist specializing in the Middle East, Central Asia and Russia. A graduate of University of Toronto and Cambridge in economics, he has been writing on East-West relations since the 1980s.

He has lived in both the Soviet Union and Russia, and then Uzbekistan, as a UN adviser, writer, translator and lecturer. Presently a writer for the foremost Cairo newspaper, Al Ahram, he is also a regular contributor to Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Global Research, Al-Jazeerah and Turkish Weekly, and is a commentator on Voice of the Cape radio.

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