Month: September 2011

by Cecile Feuillatre – TUNIS (AFP) Tunisia’s Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) founder hopes it will upstage the Islamist Ennahda, which he accused of pushing an “ideological state” agenda, in polls next...

Yacout Info | Tuesday February 8, 2011 The e-mail query came out of the blue. Want to be flown to Tangier, Morocco, to cover the TANJAzz Festival? The answer was a no-brainer of course. This scribe has covered countless jazz...

  Randy Weston: Dues paid, and set to get his reward (in the form of a prestigious award). Photo by Carol Friedman Village Jazz Alive keeps jazz, in Village, alive Weston to receive 2011’s “Legends” award Published:...

Peace Corps volunteers during a swearing-in ceremony at the National Institute of Education in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Photo by TANG CHHIN SOTHY/AFP/Getty Images) AUDIO 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps(program audio) Support...

COMMENTARY Joel Brinkley writes for Tribune Media Services.BY JOEL BRINKLEY As the brutal Syrian uprising stumbles into its seventh month, Iran’s leaders are spinning and darting like a wobbly top. They realize that President...