Maher Mughrabi

Aug 20, 2024 | theage.com.au | Maher Mughrabi

Opinion August 21, 2024 — 3.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I can still remember sitting in a youth hostel in Sydney’s Dulwich Hill, the soothing tones of the ABC announcer telling me Al Gore had won Florida and was all but certainly president-elect. “Let’s get something to eat,” I told my partner. When we got back from our meal, the world had changed.

Aug 20, 2024 | smh.com.au | Maher Mughrabi

I can still remember sitting in a youth hostel in Sydney's Dulwich Hill, the soothing tones of the ABC announcer telling me Al Gore had won Florida and was all but certainly president-elect. "Let's get something to eat," I told my partner. When we got back from our meal, the world had changed. How many people can remember the month in limbo that followed, or our new vocabulary of "butterfly ballots" and "chads" that were "hanging", "dimpled" and even "pregnant"?

Jul 1, 2024 | smh.com.au | Maher Mughrabi

"What an incredible sight. Julian Assange walking FREE outdoors!" tweeted Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene last Tuesday. When Julian Assange first became a celebrity in 2010, we learned that he had spent his boyhood on Queensland's Magnetic Island, so named because Captain Cook believed it had thrown his ship's compass into disarray.

Jul 1, 2024 | theage.com.au | Maher Mughrabi

Opinion July 2, 2024 — 11.15am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. “What an incredible sight. Julian Assange walking FREE outdoors!” tweeted Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene last Tuesday.

Jun 16, 2024 | smh.com.au | Maher Mughrabi

In October 2021 - nearly two years before the Hamas attack from the Gaza Strip that killed 1200 people in Israel - Bezalel Smotrich stood in Israel's parliament and, finding himself heckled by MPs representing the Arab minority, told them: "You're here by mistake. It's a mistake that [David] Ben-Gurion didn't finish the job and didn't throw you out in 1948."Smotrich, in opposition at the time, has since become a cabinet minister.