Armin Rosen

1 month ago | tabletmag.com | Armin Rosen

I met Israeli diplomat Yaron Lischinsky 30 hours before his murder. It was around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. I was leaving the Middle East Forum’s annual policy gathering at a hotel in Washington, D.C., a little early in order to decompress before the evening session and catch one of the final episodes of “Around the Horn.” Lischinsky’s conference nametag caught my eye as I hurried towards the elevators.

1 month ago | caasimada.net | Armin Rosen

Muqdisho (Caasimada Online) – Jihaadiyaddu waa khatar si joogto ah isu beddesha—mar waa dhibaato maxalli ah, mar kalena waxay noqotaa hanjabaad caalami ah. Soomaaliya waxay ka reeban tahay xaaladdan rogroganta, iyadoo muddo labaatan sano ah ay kooxdu al-Shabaab—farac ka tirsan Al-Qaacida—si joogto ah u beegsatay dhammaan hay’adaha dowladda, xarumaha amniga, iyo hoteellada waaweyn ee Muqdisho.

1 month ago | wsj.com | Armin Rosen

A weak Somali state struggles to defeat the attraction of a foreign import, al-Shabaab. Jihadism is an ever-fluctuating menace: a local terror one year, a threat to global order the next. Somalia is an exception to the swinging pendulum of extremist power. The al Qaeda franchise al-Shabaab has attacked nearly every state institution, security installation and large hotel in Mogadishu over the past 20 years.

2 months ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Armin Rosen

The Studio, Seth Rogen’s new auteur project on Apple TV+, deserves credit for openly bragging about how expensive it is. In its second episode, the real-life actress and director Sarah Polley schemes her way into getting Rogen’s Matt Rennick, head of the fictional Continental Studios, to spend $800,000 for the rights to a Rolling Stones song for the clinching scene of her latest small-budget lesbian coming-of-age comedy.

Jan 30, 2025 | washingtonexaminer.com | Armin Rosen

For my entire conscious life, being a fan of the team known sequentially as the Redskins, the Washington Football Team, or the Commanders was cosmic punishment. Being a supporter of this team meant meditating on what communal sin or inner flaw one’s investment of time and emotion was paying for. Each failed season raised the inevitable questions of what have we done to deserve this and why are we doing this to ourselves, for which there was never a shortage of possible answers.