To the outsider, the conflict in Israel may seem simple. Israel is occupying Palestinian land (what does that mean anyway? are Canadians and Americans not occupying the Native land?) and the Palestinians want control over themselves, and have put up an armed struggle to end…

Entrenched (Turkey’s Entrenched Patriarchy or Retrenched Feminism?) With the Popes visit to Turkey it would be a fiting time for me to talk of Turkey as the crossroads to various civilisations, the land that bridges West with the East, and of course the six hundred…