{"id":572,"date":"2008-05-23T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2008-05-23T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T14:18:00","slug":"this-weeks-signandsight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/this-weeks-signandsight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"this week&#039;s signandsight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signandsight.com\/intodaysfeuilletons\/1700.html\">From the Feuilletons<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the honour killing in Hamburg, women&#8217;s rights activist Serap<br \/>Cileli tells Germans to draw the line. Columbian journalist Hector<br \/>Abad Faciolince discovers what his countrymen are worth &#8211; in US visa<br \/>dollars. Neofascist historical revisionism is up and saluting in<br \/>Italy. Bahman Nirumand examines Abdolkarim Soroush&#8217;s thesis that not<br \/>God but Mohammed wrote the Koran. And having overdosed on the naivety<br \/>of new German feminism, the SZ wishes it was a meatball in Poland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signandsight.com\/features\/1698.html\">A journey into the heart of the enemy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel, exiled Iraqi writer,<br \/>Najem Wali, decided to go and survey the &#8220;enemy&#8221; territory with his<br \/>own eyes. What he found was an explanation for the reluctance of Arab<br \/>leaders to let their people make the same journey: the stagnation of<br \/>Arab societies and economies cannot be blamed on Israel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signandsight.com\/features\/1699.html\"><br \/>Magazine Roundup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the London Review of Books, Kevin Kopelson spills the beans about<br \/>his plagiarism-littered path to professorship. Elet es Irodalom is<br \/>green with envy over the independence of the Polish press. The<br \/>Christians had it better under Nasser and Saddam Hussein, claims<br \/>Coptic priest Giuseppe Scattolin in Resetdoc. In Le point,<br \/>Bernard-Henri Levy spits out a colourful array of adjectives to<br \/>describe the regime in Burma. And in L&#8217;Espresso, Umberto Eco analyses<br \/>how the Mafia is murdering with the times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Feuilletons After the honour killing in Hamburg, women&#8217;s rights activist SerapCileli tells Germans to draw the line. Columbian journalist HectorAbad Faciolince discovers what his countrymen are worth &#8211; in US visadollars. Neofascist&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-signandsight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}