by Nancy E Dollahite | Jul 7, 2018 | USA
On June 30 another sad chapter was added to the city of Portland’s long history of public violence when antifa and far-right protestors clashed at a downtown rally that began with a police permit but was soon declared a riot. It was the second time in a month that...
by Nancy E Dollahite | Jun 16, 2018 | Film, Immigration
Small boats spilling people into the waves. The flickering lights of cell phones. Broken buildings. Walking. Waiting. Walking. Walking. Walking. Waiting. Single words and phrases, rather than complete sentences, seem to capture the essence of Human Flow, the film by...
by Nancy E Dollahite | May 26, 2018 | Middle East, Politics
I want to follow up on what Qaisar Shareef has written about Palestine and Israel (“Holy War in the Promised Land,” May 19) by calling attention to the writings of Gene Sharp, who advocated nonviolence – or, as he termed it, political defiance, as an...
by Nancy E Dollahite | Apr 7, 2018 | Book reviews, China
So which works better: memorization or discovery on your own, self-discipline or creativity? This, to vastly oversimplify, is the crux of the debate between models of education in Asia and the West. As an educator who has taught at every level from middle school to...
by Nancy E Dollahite | Feb 24, 2018 | Book reviews, Middle East, Travel
Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh offers a personal account of what it is like to have the place you love taken away piece by piece and be helpless to stop the loss. It is a sad book, yet also lovely, giving one view of the...