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Material from the older nigelparry.com archive... 29 March 2002 - The Electronic Intifada is in the process of instituting diaries describing the current situation in the West Bank. 28 March 2002 - My bio on this site has been updated. 26 March 2002 - Coming soon, some dates of lectures and concerts in St. Paul, MN and Chicago, IL. Join the news lists for advance notice. 15 March 2002 - Press Conference: Grave concern for the safety of Palestinian civilians - a call for the universal application of international law, Nigel Parry for The Electronic Intifada in Minneapolis, MN, 15 March 2002. Read it here. 19 February 2002 - Special report: NPR's Linda Gradstein takes cash payments from pro-Israeli groups, by Ali Abunimah & Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada. Read it here. 10 February 2002 - "Midnight Knock (Secret Police Mix)", the first Panic Planet MP3, featuring Shab Najeeb and D.J. Violence. Your soundtrack of choice for the War Against Terror. Download it here. 7 February 2002 - Launch of the new After 9/11 Archive. 22 January 2002 - Launch of indictsharon.net, the website for the biggest court case of the year. 18 December 2001 - Guest, KFAI's Catalyst show, Twin Cities, MN, playing songs from This Side of Paradise.9 December 2001 - Performance of songs from This Side of Paradise, Art as Protest, Dunn Brothers, St. Paul, MN. 8 December 2001 - Performance of songs from This Side of Paradise, Art as Protest, Intermedia Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN. 4 December 2001 - Guest, Wills & Coleman Morning Show, WTAM1100 Newsradio, Cleveland, Ohio.  13 November 2001 - Request for requests from radio stations. Write in and ask local stations to play tracks from This Side of Paradise (pictured right, click for more information). Info about this request here.27 October 2001 - Performance in Antioch College, Ohio: 
"They say they were commissioned by the blood of innocentsFind out more about the music here... 16 October 2001 -Talk in River Falls, Wisconsin:  "The use of the 'celebrating Palestinians' image on the day of the World Trade Center attacks would be equivalent to broadcasting images from the recent Klu Klux Klan rally in St. Paul around the world and telling people that this is what all Americans think."Other highlights from the talk will ultimately be added to this site. 12 September 2001 - New coverage trend: The Palestinian people, as a whole, portrayed as supportive of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, by Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada, 12 September 2001. 11 September 2001 - Press releases: 2) ARAB AMERICAN STATEMENT ON TERROR ATTACKS, Cautions Against Scapegoating Washington, DC -- The Arab American Institute issued the following statement regarding today's terror attacks: We are in the midst of a national nightmare of unimaginable proportions. What is unfolding is horrible and almost too painful to watch. Arab Americans, like all Americans, are transfixed by this tragedy. We have family and friends who worked in the World Trade Center and for the Federal Government. We mourn for those who lost their lives and those who were injured. We mourn, as well, for our country in this time of national trauma. We as a nation will be profoundly tested in the months to come. Today the burden falls on our firefighters, police and emergency service personnel teams. Tomorrow it will be legislators, national securit y agencies and law enforcement officials who will be called upon to provide answers, solutions and punishment for those responsible. Because several news outlets have contacted us for comment, we felt that is important to recall how in the aftermath of Oklahoma City, Arab Americans were harassed and targeted in several communities across the United States. We urge our fellow citizens not to rush to judgement and point fingers at their Arab American neighbors and colleagues who are suffering, like all Americans, from these despicable acts. Regardless of who is ultimately found to be responsible for these terrorist murders, no ethnic or religious community should be treated as suspect and collectively blamed. AAI is a national organization committed to the civic and political empowerment of Americans of Arab descent. 3) MUSLIMS OFFER HELP FOR VICTIMS OF TERRORIST ATTACKS (Washington, DC) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a prominent Washington-based Islamic advocacy group, is calling on Muslims nationwide to offer whatever assistance they can to help the victims of today's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. In an alert to the American Muslim community, CAIR suggested that the following actions be taken: * Muslim medical professionals are asked to go to the scenes of the attacks to offer aid and comfort to the victims. * Muslim relief agencies should contact their counterparts to offer support in the recovery efforts. * Individual Muslims should donate blood by contacting the local office of the Red Cross. (Call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE.) They should also send donations to those relief agencies that are on the scene of the attacks. CAIR's alert asked community members to report incidents of anti-Muslim harassment or attacks. It also suggested steps to take to increase security around mosques and Islamic centers. (In the first few days following the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma, Muslims reported more than 200 incidents of harassment, threats and actual violence. CAIR has already received reports of harassment and attacks against Muslims who wear Islamic attire.) Security precautions suggested by CAIR's alert include: * Those who wear Islamic attire should consider staying out of public areas for the immediate future. * Request additional police patrols in the vicinity of mosques. * Post mosque members at entrances and parking areas during prayer times. * Report suspicious packages to police. * Document descriptions of suspicious people or vehicles. There are an estimated seven million Muslims in America and some 1.2 billion worldwide. Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in this country and around the world. 10 September 2001 - Updates to this website will be infrequent until October due to a variety of commitments. 6 September 2001 - Highly improbable plot situations, exaggerated characters, and slapstick elements, by Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada, 6 September 2001. 29 August 2001 - New Internationalist magazine, a progressive publication with a circulation of over 50,000, reviewed This Side of Paradise in its August 2001 issue. 4 June 2001 - June 2001 edition of Al-Bassaleh, a satirical online "newspaper" published by The Electronic Intifada, is now available.
July 2001 quote - George Santayana (1863-1952), Spanish-American philosopher, poet, and humanist - 4 June 2001 - June 2001 edition of Al-Bassaleh, a satirical online "newspaper" published by The Electronic Intifada, is now available.
June 2001 quote - A J Liebling, quoted by Richard Kluger, The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune, Knopf, 1986 - 31 May 2001 - A new commentary, The Message of the Mortars, was published on The Electronic Intifada's website. 27 May 2001 - A letter to the editors of the Minneapolis Star Tribune in response to a 26 May commentary by Stephen R. Silberfarb, was sent out today. 19 May 2001 -new flash intro, "the statistics speak for themselves", added to nigelparry.com. If you want to link to it, the file is permanently archived at http://nigelparry.com/flash/may2001.html. The intro is designed to work with a 56K modem or better. The image and soundtrack are mine, the latter from an unreleased song, "Treasure". 18 May 2001 My response to today's Ha'aretz editorial "Trigger Happy" was sent as an op-ed to the newspaper. It is archived on The Electronic Intifada website. 13 May 2001 - nigelparry.com just got a face lift. When you design websites, people sometimes ask why yours isn't prettier. The answer, "Because I'm busy doing other people's sites!" only works for so long. The facelift covers the main sections of the site, apart from A Personal Diary and info about my CD, This Side of Paradise, which remain as they were. 7 May 2001 - updates to the Media section of A Personal Diary. 2 May 2001 - I was interviewed along with Laurie King-Irani about media coverage of the Middle East on KPFK Pacifica. Read the transcript here on the website of The Electronic Intifada.
May 2001 quote - William Gibson, speaking about the Internet, Salon.com, 14 October 1996 - 21 April 2001 - Information about the The Israel Shamir Case added to this site. 12 April 2001 - The Vocabulary Of Revenge, appeared in Al-Ahram Weekly, 12-18 April 2001. 8 March 2001 - Deconstructing "for security reasons": Israel's closure of Birzeit, Media Monitors Network, March 8th. March 2001 - "You care about your child's education", an advert designed for the Nation, the National Catholic Reporter, and the Christian Science Monitor. 22 October 2000 - i think i heard a shot, a Flash commentary on the killing of Mohammed Al-Dura and the killing of Palestinian children during the second Intifada. |