Tarek Fatah

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FATAH: Israeli filmmaker disgracefully abuses India’s hospitality

This past Nov. 28, just two days after the 14th anniversary of the Mumbai Terror strike by Pakistan-backed jihadis on the city’s landmark Taj Hotel and a Jewish Centre, another assault on India was carried out, this time a verbal one by an Israeli filmmaker.

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November 30, 2022 Columnists

Israeli director Nadav Lapid takes a photo call at the Cannes Film Festival.

FATAH: Saudis celebrate soccer but shrug off public beheadings

Saudi Arabia may have pulled off a miracle by defeating Argentina at the FIFA World Cup, leading to much rejoicing among its citizens, but in the last 10 days, the Kingdom also earned the distinction of public brutality when it invoked its medieval Islamic laws to behead 12 people in public by a sword-wielding executioner.

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November 23, 2022 Columnists

Saudi Arabia Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman is received by Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani on the sidelines of the World Cup in Doha, Qatar, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022.

FATAH: Why I will be boycotting the FIFA World Cup

On Sunday, when the FIFA World Cup gets underway in Qatar with the host country playing Ecuador, it will mark the first time I will be boycotting the kick-off match.

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November 16, 2022 Columnists

In this photo illustration, the official match ball of FIFA World Cup Qatar is seen in front of Khalifa International Stadium at sunset ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 on Nov. 16, 2022 in Doha, Qatar.

FATAH: The crashing sound of the anticipated big Red Wave

Leading up to the U.S. midterm elections, David Frum wrote in The Atlantic last week that “Americans have short attention spans. But their decisions have long fuses. People vote for reasons that may be quite contingent, even temporary, or incidental, but that seem compelling at the moment — with effects that detonate long afterward.”

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November 9, 2022 Columnists

The U.S. Capitol dome is seen from the base of the Washington Monument as the sun rises on Nov. 9, 2022 in Washington, DC.

FATAH: Heavy weight on new British prime minister

The sight of Rishi Sunak and his billionaire wife as the new residents of 10 Downing St. is being celebrated by hundreds of millions of people of Indian ancestry across the world, wherever they ended up because of Great Britain’s 200-year colonial rule of the Indian subcontinent.

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October 26, 2022 Columnists

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on Oct. 26, 2022, for the House of Commons to take part in his first Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs).

FATAH: Pakistan's deadly history of mass killings is an atrocity

United States President Joe Biden has labelled Pakistan as “one of the most dangerous nations in the world” and a country with “nuclear weapons without any cohesion.”

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October 19, 2022 Columnists

Pakistani paramilitary rangers patrol as they cordon off a street leading to the headquarters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) political party after it was sealed by paramilitary rangers following a raid in Karachi on late August 22, 2016.

FATAH: The world needs to stand against Iranian oppression

The turmoil in Iran over anti-Hijab demonstrations sees no end in sight. What began as a protest against the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in police custody on Sept. 17 has now left at least 76 protesters shot dead by Iranian security forces.

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October 12, 2022 Columnists

A picture obtained by AFP outside Iran shows a woman walking without a head scarf in the heart of the Iranian capital Tehran, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022.

FATAH: Why weren't Canada's feminists and leftists at the big Iran protest?

This past Saturday the city of Richmond Hill witnessed a massive rally followed by a march to North York’s Mel Lastman Square of many thousands of women and men of all ages, chanting the slogan “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi” (Women, Life, Freedom) in support of the uprising against the Islamic dictatorship that has ruled Iran since 1979.

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October 5, 2022 Columnists