Tag Archives: Iran hostage crisis

The trouble with superheroes taking on terrorism..

Posted on May 10, 2016 by samiraahmed

I love superhero comics and they’ve never been handled with more love than by writers and filmmakers who grew up on them too. And yet.. And yet.. In the latest Captain America Civil War film, when a terrorist bomb goes … Continue reading →

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The Iran hostage crisis, the Stasi and why the past cannot be left behind

Posted on May 6, 2014 by samiraahmed

I ate my first Passover Seder meal recently, as a guest of Rabbi Jonathan Romain at his synagogue. I had had the ingredients and their symbolic meaning on the seder table memorized since that sheet Miss Thick gave me to … Continue reading →

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