Nir Boms

Journalist, Writer, Middle East Analyst

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Libya’s Old Tricks

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Lybia, Middle East

By Nick Grace and Nir Boms
Published December 16, 2005

Despite some positive steps taken by Libya in the past few years to normalize relations with Europe and the United States, the government of Col. Muammar Qaddafi has proven that it neither respects the fundamental rights of its citizens nor can be trusted to observe the norms [...]

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The Power of the Dish and the War of Ideas

May 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Freedom and the Internet, Middle East

 

By Nir T. Boms
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 1, 2003
On March of 2000, Zia Atabi, a former Iranian rock star, placed a small satellite dish on the roof of a former pornographic studio in one of Los Angeles neighborhoods and began broadcasting.
Atabi, formally known as the “Tom Jones of Iran” escaped his homeland shortly after 1979 and [...]

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