Tuesday, September 25, 2007

News at Eleven: This unifying effect

was most glaringly captured when the TV stations of both Hamas and Fatah threw their support behind the unsuspecting Tamim [Al-Barghouti], broadcasting his poems repeatedly, and urging people to vote for him, catapulting him from a little-known young poet into a symbol of national resistance and unity.

from 3 Quarks Daily: Arab poetry's sometimes subversive answer to "American Idol"

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