2005-2014

With riots raging across the Muslim world over the publication of Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, the editors of The Harvard Salient republished four of the cartoons in the paper’s Feb. 8 edition, angering a number of student groups. Asserting that they would not "[cater] to a sensitivity borne of fear of death that has plagued many would-be critics of Islam," the editors of the...

Over the last three months an Iranian news agency has provided an open platform to Western Holocaust deniers, in effect aiding the Iranian government's efforts to promote anti-Semitism and to cast doubt on the historical truth of the Holocaust. The semi-official Mehr News Agency, whose articles are made available on the Internet in Farsi, Arabic and English and widely circulated throughout the...

What are the long-term consequences of the Prophet Mohammed cartoon furor? I predict it is helping bring on not a clash of civilizations, but their mutual pulling apart. This separation, which has been building for years, has dreadful implications. Signs of disengagement are all around. Trade: Boycotts now exist in both directions. Even as the U.S. government sanctions Iranian products, Iranian...

TEHERAN - The chief editor of the Iranian daily Hamshahri on Tuesday called on Danish newspapers to join its self-initiated international cartoon competition on the Holocaust. "The Danish daily which insulted our prophet, as well as other Danish dailies, can attend our cartoon competition," Mohammed-Reza Zarei told reporters in Teheran. Zarei, a cleric, said his newspaper would also be willing to...

China's online advertising market is in the high-speed growth. IResearch Inc released on Sunday its latest statistics, showing that 2005 online advertising market reached 3.13 billion yuan, an increase of 77.1 per cent last year compared with that of the previous year and 7.6 times that of 2001. The proportion of online ads in total ad market increased from 0.5 per cent in 2001 to 2.3 per cent...

Television is experiencing a renaissance, which is great news for viewers but a challenging gauntlet for advertisers as technology allows viewers to break free from the broadcaster's iron grip - the prime-time schedule where watching the programmes we love comes at the cost of being subjected to endless reruns of often mind-numbing adverts. With the recent release of Multichoice's Personal Video...

BRUSSELS, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The United States and Europe should respond to the row over cartoons of Islam's Prophet Mohammad by intensifying efforts to nurture Middle East reform, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday. Accusing authorities in Iran and Syria of stoking popular anger at the pictures, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Dan Fried said the dispute showed...

The editorial staff of the independent daily newspaper at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said Monday that its members were embarrassed by how the decision was made to run controversial Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad last week. "We want to make it clear that while we do not necessarily disagree with the decision to print these cartoons, we disagree with how they were run,"...

Two high-ranking editors of the student newspaper at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were suspended Tuesday after they decided on their own to run some of the controversial cartoons that have sparked protests and outrage from Muslims around the world. Acton Gorton, the editor in chief of the Daily Illini, and Chuck Prochaska, the opinions editor, said they stand behind their decision...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's best-selling newspaper on Tuesday defended its competition for cartoons about the Holocaust, saying it was a test of the boundaries of free speech espoused by Western countries. The Hamshahri newspaper contest, which has been strongly condemned by Jewish organizations and Western governments, follows widespread ire in the Islamic world over caricatures published in the...