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Abbas, Mahmoud
Abdeh, Anas al-
Abdul-Rahman, Hoji
Abdullah I, King of Saudi Arabia (earlier Crown Prince)
Abdullah, King of Jordan
Abed see under Moghrabi, Abed
Ablitt, John Henry
Abrams, Elliott
Abu Bakr, Caliph
Abu Ghraib
Adam, Yousos
Adams, Gerry
Afghanistan: bin Laden supposedly in; Northern Alliance; bombed by USA; Taliban in; Karzai’s government in; Canadian troops in; British presence; mujahedin in; flights to; democratic government; torture in; featured on Italian TV programme
Ahdab, Mosbah al-
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Aisha (wife of Mohamed the Prophet)
Akçam, Taner: A Shameful Act
Akif Pasha, Reshid
Albright, Madeleine
Algeria: torture in; US support for military regime; Blair on; democratic government; violence and killings; independence celebrations
Algerians: murdered in Paris (1961)
Ali, Imam
Ali, Tariq
All Quiet on the Western Front (film)
Allawi, Iyad
Allen, Ian
Alptuna, Akin
Amanullah, Mohamed
Amara, Iraq, xviin
American Civil War
American Enterprise Institute, Washington
Amery, Leo
anthropology: language
anti-Semitism: defined; in literature and films; in New Testament; and morality; see also Jews
Antony, Mark
Antwerp
Aoun, General Michel
apartheid
Arab-Israeli War (1967)
Arabs: threaten Israel; hostility to Zionism; and US war on terror; in 9/11 attack on USA; portrayed in Western films; mutual killings; attitude to West; destroy art works; revolt against Ottoman occupation; see also Muslims
Arafat, Yasser: at Grand Mufti’s funeral; attitude to Israel; Sharon’s hostility to; claims to support war on terror; Israeli war with; supposed alliance with Iran; newspaper reporting of; anti-Zionism; Begin attacks; Pipes denegrates; on King Hussein of Jordan; stature
Arar, Maher
Ararat, Mount
Arax, Mark
Arian, Laila al-
Arian, Sami al-
Aridi, Ghazi
Arkan (Zaljko Raznatovic)
Armenia: as modern state
Armenians, genocide in Turkey (1915)
Armitage, Richard
Arnhem, battle of (1944)
Arnold. Matthew
Arvesen, Ane-Karine
Ashanti (film)
Asharq al-Awsat (newspaper)
Ashcroft, John
Ashrawi, Hanan
Assad, Bashar al-
Assad, Hafez al-
Assad, Rifaat al-
Assam Regiment
assassination: euphemisms for; reporting of
Assassins (hashashin)
Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atonement (film)
atrocities: reaction to; see also torture; waterboarding
Atta, Mohamed
Atwood, Margaret: Moral Disorder
Auden, W.H.
Audoin-Rouzeau, Stéphane
Auschwitz
Australia: and suppression of anti-Jewish views; Muslims abused in; sends wheat to Iraq
Australian, The (newspaper)
Avner (Israeli assassination film character)
Avneri, Uri

Baalbek
Baathists: in Iraq; in Damascus
Badr, Qari Badruzzaman
BAE Systems: arms sale in Saudi Arabia
Baez, Joan
Baghdad: Bush visits; Green Zone; air service with Beirut; conditions; violence in; see also Iraq
Bagram
Baker, James
Baker-Hamilton Study Group Report
Balfour, Arthur Jamest Earl
Balian of Ibelin
Balkan War (1912)
Balkans: divisions
Bamiyan: Buddhas
Banville, John
Baradei, Dr Mona El-
Barak, Ehud
Barbie, Klaus
Bardolph (Shakespeare character)
Barnes, Ivan
Barnes, Kathy
Basra: British army abuses in
Battle of Algiers, The (film)
Battle of Britain, The (film)
Beatty, Robert
Bechir, Alphonse
Bechir, Antoine
Beckett, Margaret& n
Begin, Menachem
Beirut: Arab summit (2002); siege (1982); and European divisions; violence in; railways; remembers civil war (1975-90); Martyrs’ Square; security in; assassinations; air service to Baghdad; religions in; Israeli advance on (1982); dead and cemeteries in; see also Lebanon
Beirut to Bosnia (documentary film)
Beit Jalla, Israel
Belfast: and buiilding of Titanic; religion in
Belfast Telegraph
Belgrade
Bellingham, Henry
Ben Hur (film)
Ben Othman, Bouasria see Othman, Bouasria Ben
Ben-Gurion, David
Benedict XVI, Pope
Benenden School, Kent
Bentalha, Algeria
Berg, Captain Edward
Berg, Mary
Bergman, Ingmar
Berktay, Halil
Berlusconi, Silvio
Bernstein, Carl
Best, George
Bhutto, Benazir
Bhutto, Fatima
Bhutto, Murtaza
Bhutto, Shahnawaz
Bible, Holy: violence in
Bicknell, Arthur
Bigley, Ken
Bilal, Mohsen
Binchy, Maeve: Light a Penny Candle
Bisregger-Breno, Charlotte
Bistrich, Andrea
Bithynia
Blair, Sir Ian
Blair, Tony: and Kut al-Amara; on Iraq as threat; and Turkish denial of Armenian massacre; on Algeria; language; as peace envoy to Middle East; and Saudi fraud investigation; on Arab women’s dress; accused of lying; description of Iraq war; and New Labour legacy; on Middle East; visits Libya; proposes to create Palestine; declines to apologise; invasion of Iraq; and information obtained under torture; and Allied atrocities in Iraq; justifies Second Iraq War; on Ahmadinejad; and ‘evil idology’; announces new anti-terror laws; leadership; joins Bush’s war on terror; and Olmert’s view of Ahmadinejad; heroic claims; self-image; policy in Iraq; and Lockerbie bombing
Blanchett, Kate
Bloody Sunday (Derry, 1972)
Bloom, Orlando
Blunden, Edmund
Blyth News
Blyth, Northumberland
Blythe, Eddie
Boer War (1899-1902)
Bogart, Humphrey
Boggs, Luke
Bolton, John
Bonhoeffer, Pastor Dietrich
Bonner, Ethan
Borgnine, Ernest
Bosnia
Boulle, Pierre
Braveheart (film)
Brazil
Bremer, Paul
Bridge on the River Kwai, The (film)
Bridge Too Far, A (film)
Britain: and Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; defeated in Afghanistan (1842); terror plots and alarms; Muslims in; see also London
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): language in reports; censorship; on eviction of Israelis in Gaza
Brookings Institution
Brown, Dan
Brown, Willie
Browne, Vincent
Brownlee, John
Bruel, Patrick
Bshara, Soad
Bucher, Rudolf
Buddha: images destroyed
Buhler, Therese
Burma railway
Burns, William
Busby, Chris
Bush, George, Sr
Bush, George W.: and Shakespeare; covert racism; on terrorism and evil; bombs Iraq; moral commitment; proposes Palestinian state; addresses German Bundestag; Middle East policy; on Iraq as threat; suspected of coveting Iraqi oil; denies Armenian genocide; Fort Bragg speech; and war in Iraq; Massoud on; and rendition of terror suspects; silence on death of Rachel Corrie; visits Baghdad; on Islamic fascism; threatens UN; declares Crusade against 9/11 killers; on outcome in Iraq; and Sy Hersh; accused of childishness; on situation in Iraq; on Iraq elections; Pope John Paul II opposes; provokes Muslim violence; and peace in Iraq; and Iraq surge; policy in Iraq; on killing of Benazir Bhutto; and Pakistan intelligence; on death and sacrifice; and Abu Ghraib
Bush, Laura
Buyukanit, General Yasar

Cadman, Bill
Cadman, Martin and Rita
Caine Mutiny, The (film)
Caliban (Shakespeare character)
Cambodia
Cameron, James (film director)
Camp David agreement (1978)
Camperdown, HMS
Canada: troops in Afghanistan; and rendition; Lebanese torturers, in; anti-Muslim press reports; war crimes investigators; climate change; and North West Passage
Canty, Timothy
capital punishment
Caravaggio, David
Carey, Pat and Alice
Carpathia, SS
Carpenter, Gavin William
Carter, Jimmy: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Casablanca (film)
Casey, General George W.
Cass, Frank
Catherine de Medici, Queen of France
Catt, Alfred Brann
Cave, Herbert
Cavell, Edith
Ceca (singer)
Çeku, Agim
censorship: of literature and films
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): in Afghanistan; and Halabja gassings; and renditon; holds Muslim suspects in Romania and Poland; and torture methods; destroys tapes of interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects in 9/11 attack
Chahine, Saïd
Chalabi, Ahmed
Chamberlain, Neville
Charents, Yeghishe; ‘The Message’ (poem)
Cheney, Dick: anti-terror rhetoric; sees film Black Hawk Down; demands regime change in Iraq; Chalabi meets; character
Chertoff, Michael
Chicago; see also DePaul University
Children’s Memories (film)
Chirac, Jacques
Chomsky, Noam
Christianity: violent acts
Christiansen, Arthur
Churchill, Sir Winston S.: Sharon compared to; Bush and Blair emulate; condemns Armenian genocide; on pretentious language; drawings on letters; on military honour; on Palestine; plans Gallipoli campaign; grave
Ciampi, Carlo
Cicero
cinema: epic films and US policy; influence; and distortion of history; and war films; censorship
Clifton, Tony
climate change
Clinton, Bill
Clooney, George
CNN (Cable News Network)
Cocteau, Jean
Condee, Helen Churchill
Congo: troops in Second World War
Connery, Sean
conspiracy theories: and 9/11 attack
Cook, Robin
Cooley, John
Cooney, Tom
Corrie, Rachel
Council on Foreign Relations (USA)
Cowper-Coles, Sir Sherard
Craig, David
Craig, James
Crassus, Marcus Licinius
Crawford, Robert
Crocker, Ryan
Cromwell, Oliver
Crozier, Brian
Cruel Sea, The (film)
Crusades and Crusaders; castles
Cumpsty, Jean (author’s cousin)
Cunningham, Lieut.-General Sir Alan
Curie, Pierre and Marie
Cutty Sark (clipper ship)

Dadrian, Vahakn
Daily Express
Dalyell, Tam
Damascus: Temple of Truth
Damon, Dan
Damrosch, David
Dana, Mazen
Dando, Jill
Dar es-Salaam: US embassy attacked
Dardanelles campaign (1915)
Daumier, Honoré
Da Vinci Code, The (film)
Day the Earth Caught Fire, The (film)
Dayan, Moshe
Deal, Major Kenneth
death; see also mourning
Deighton, Len: Bomber
Deir Yassin, Palestine: massacre (1948)
Deir Yassin Remembered (organisation)
Dejammet, Alain
de la la Billière, General Peter
Democracy Now! (TV programme)
Denmark: cartoons of Prophet Mohamed
DePaul University, Chicago
depleted uranium (DU)
Dershowitz, Alan; The Case for Israel
Descartes, René
Desert Island Discs (radio programme)
Devoir, Le (French-Canadian newspaper)
Dial 999 (TV programme)
Dickens, Charles
Dillon, Brian
Dimbleby, Jonathan
Dink, Hrant
Dixon of Dock Green (TV programme)
Diyala province, Iraq
Dobbs, Michael
Dr Zhivago (film)
Dominion Post (New Zealand newspaper)
Doneley, Bob
Donne, John
Douai family
Douglas, Kirk
Douste-Blazy, Philippe
Dowd, Maureen
Downfall (film)
Downing, Malcolm
Dragnet (TV programme)
Drancy, France
Draschen, Thomas
dreams
Dresden: bombed (1945)
Druzes: in Lebanon; status in Beirut; and Lebanese martyred dead
Duke, Lynne
Dumas, Alexandre
Dunkirk evacuation (1940)
Dunkirk (film)
Dunstan, Roy Hart
Dura, Mohamed al-
Dushanbe, Tajikistan

E-mail
East Sutton, Kent
Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon)
Edgar, Iain
Egypt: war with Israel (1967); elections; torture in; government
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Ekerot, Bengt
Eliot, T.S.: ‘Gerontion’
Elizabeth I, Queen
Elizabeth (film)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (film)
Elliott, Everett Edward
Ellsberg, Daniel
Elpeleg, Zvi: The Grand Mufti
Elzahabi, Mohamed
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Enfeh, Lebanon
English Patient, The (book and film)
Epic of Gilgamesh
Epstein, Denise
Epstein, Michel
Esposito, Anna
Europe: divisions and conditions in
Evans (British diplomat in Beirut)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle upon Tyne)
evil: concept of
executions
Exodus (film)

Fabiani, Martin
Fahrenheit 9/11 (film)
Fair, Ric
Falah, Laith
Fallujah, Iraq
Fansiama, Anicet Mobé
Farouk, King of Egypt
farthings
Fascism: in Italy
Fatah movement
Fatah al-Islam (group)
Fausto, Boris
Feather, Jim
Feild, J.J.
Ferdowsi: Shahnameh
Field, Henry
Fields, Gracie
Figaro, Le (newspaper)
films see cinema
Financial Times
Finkelstein, Norman; The Holocaust Industry
First of the Few, The (film)
Fisk, Edward (author’s paternal grandfather)
Fisk, Margaret (author’s paternal grandmother)
Fisk, Peggy (née Rose; author’s mother)
Fisk, William (Bill; author’s father): handwriting; and father-in-law; career in local government; death; relations with father; service in First World War; on dying and faith; and First World War execution; in home movie; views church memorials
Fitzgerald, Ella
Fleihan, Basil
Flight 93 (film)
Foer, Franklin: How Soccer Explains the World
Folha de Sao Paulo (newspaper)
football: and violence
Formigli, Corrado
Fortune, Captain (Blyth harbourmaster)
Fouda, Yosri
Foxman, Abe
France: and Middle East war (1967); Middle East mandates; and Lebanese sovereignty; Vichy government; and Algerian violence; illegality of Holocaust denial; and Lebanon in World War II; Jews deported in World War II,
France-Soir (newspaper)
Francis, Christian
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1)
Franjieh family
Frantz, Douglas
Friedman, Thomas

Gable, Clark
Gadaffi, Moamar
Gainsbourg, Serge
Gallipoli campaign (1915)
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
gardens and flowers: in war zones
Garibaldi, Giovanni
Garner, General Jay
Gates, Robert
Gauguin, Paul
Gaulle, Charles de
Gaza: as independent Palestinian state; Israeli sanctions on; Hamas in; Israelis evicted; Pipes on
Gemayel, Bashir
Gemayel, Pierre
General von Steuben (ship)
Ghanem, Antoine
Ghazawi, Tewfiq
Ghazwan (Iraqi air station manager)
Gibson, Mel
Gilbert, Sir, Martin
Gilo, Israel
Gilsenan, Michael
Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry
Gladiator (film)
global warming
Goble, Guy
Goçek, Fatma
Goddard, Tim
Gogh, Theo van
Goldman, Bobby
Goldscheider, Barbara: Naqba: The Catastrophe: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Goldstein, Baruch
Gonseth, Frédéric
Gonzales, Alberto
Good Night, and Good Luck (film)
Goodman, Amy
Gopin, Marc: Holy War, Holy Peace
Gordon, John
Gouraud, Henri
Goya (ship)
Grafton, Anthony
Graves, Robert
Great Escape, The (film)
Gréco, Juliette
Greenspon, Edward
Guantanamo Bay
guerrillas
Guildford: IRA bombing (1974)
Gunpowder Plot (1605)
Guy de Lusignan
Guynemer, Georges
Gyllenhaal, Jake

Habbouch, Lebanon
Hacaoglu, Selçan
Haddad, Saad
Haditha, Iraq
Hadley, Stephen
Hague, The: war crimes tribunal
Haim, Major (Israeli)
Hain, Peter
Halabja: Kurds gassed
Halifax, Nova Scotia: Titanic cemetery
Halliday, Denis
Hallyday, Johnny
Hama, Syria
Hamade, Marwan
Hamas: abuses Israelis; members assassinated; election victory (2006); negotiations with; battles with Fatah; in Gaza; hostility to
Hamblin, Theodore
Hamilton, Lee H.
Hare, David: Stuff Happens
Hariri, Ahmed
Hariri, Bahia
Hariri, Rafiq
Harland, Jim
Harland, Rosemary
Harland and Wolff (shipbuilders)
Harper, Stephen
Harris, Zelig
Harvie, Robin
Hassan, Margaret
Hawi, George
Hawkins, Jack
Hayek, Ignace Antoine II, Patriarch of Antioch
Heaney, Seamus
Helphand, Kenneth: Defiant Gardens
Henry V, King
Henry, Abu see Cowper-Coles, Sir Sherard
Henty, G.A.
Herold, Marc W.
Hersh, Seymour (Sy)
Heston, Charlton
Hillary, Richard: The Last Enemy
Hilterman, Joost
Hilton, Paris
Himmler, Heinrich
Hitchens, Christopher
Hitler, Adolf: Grand Mufti of Jerusalem meets; German opposition to; Shirer criticises; and obliteration of other countries; genocide policy against Russians; Mein Kampf
Hizballah: supposedly in Lebanon; US claims as threat; Bush hopes for Israeli victory over; ordered to disarm by UN; captures Israeli soldiers; violence
Ho Chi Minh
Holland (Netherlands): Mohamed Ziya seeks refuge in
Holocaust (Jewish): Grand Mufti of Jerusalem disclaims knowledge of; denied; and Armenian Holocaust; pope condemns; Yad Vashem memorial
Holuigue, Gerard
Hood, Gavin
Hooper, Jack
Hourani, Albert
Howard, John
Howard, Leslie
Hrawi, Elias
Hsia, Ronnie Po-chia
Hugo, Victor
human rights: and religion
Hume, John
Huntingdon, Samuel
Hussein, Ahmed Hanoun
Hussein, Imam al-
Hussein, King of Jordan
Husseini, Haj Amin al-, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

Ibn Sirin: Dreams and their Intepretation
Icke, David: Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster
Illustrated London News
Imad see under Saidi, Imad
Imperial War Museum, London: and Armenian genocide
In the Name of the Father (film)
Incirlik air base, Turkey
India: supplies UN peacekeeping troops
Inquisition, Holy: and torture methods
Insel, Ahmet
International Herald Tribune
intifada
Iran: supposed aid for Lebanon; links with al-Qaeda; Bush criticises; Rumsfeld on; Saddam uses gas warfare against; blamed for gassing of Kurds; Saddam’s war with; relations with Bush; Hersh on; clerical government; airliner shot down by US cruiser; executions
Iraq: supposed weapons of mass destruction; uses poison gas against Iran; as source of oil; newspaper reporters killed in; insurgents change sides to support USA; British mandate in; Dawa party elected to power; and al-Qaeda; violence in; civilians killed; torture in; US policy in; atrocities in; conditions; elections; clerical government; and ancient Rome; US surge in; US media reporting on; US withdrawal question; humanitarian catastrophe in; see also Baghdad
Ireland: supplies peacekeeping troops
Irish Times
Irvine, Marion
Irving, David
Iskander, Iskander Ahmed
Islam see Muslims
Ismay, J. Bruce
Israel: Arab threat to; US support for; war against Lebanon (2006); hostility to Arafat; occupied territories; newspaper reporting of; war with Arabs (1967); conflict with Palestinians; suicide bombers in; Mary Robinson criticises; criticisms suppressed; Palestinians flee; athletes massacred at Munich Olympics; violence towards Arabs; applies sanctions on Palestinians; dealings with Hamas; builds settlements; wall; attacks on Lebanon; citizens evicted from Gaza strip; and Khian jail; lobbyists in USA; relations with South Africa; absent from US films; see also Deir Yassin
Italy: media and reporting in; memorial to World War I and Fascism

James I, King of England (James VI of Scotland)
Japan: war crimes
Jarhead (film)
Jarrah, Ziad
Jaulmes, Adrien
Jaurès, Jean
Jazeera, Al-
Jellicoe, Admiral John Rushworth t Earl
Jenaan, Zuhair
Jenin
Jentsch, Julia
Jerusalem Post
Jesus Christ: crucifixion
Jewish Action Task Force
Jewish Film Festival, 14th (Vienna, 2006)
Jewish News (Australia)
Jews: and state of Israel; attacks on Arabs; on Armenian genocide; literary references to; medieval torture of; violent conquests; deported from France in World War II; see also anti-Semitism; Holocaust
Jhally, Sut
Jidejian, Nina
John Paul II, Pope
Jonas, George: Vengeance
Jones, Arthur Creech
Jones, Gareth
Jordan: monarchy
journalists: and testimony to war crimes tribunals; see also newspapers
Jumblatt, Nora
Jumblatt, Walid
Junor, John
Jutland, battle of (1916)

Kapur, Shekhar
Kapuscinski, Ryszard
Karajan, Herbert von
Karine A (ship)
Karzai, Hamid
Kassir, Samir
Kay, Jonathan
Kean, Thomas H.
Kelly, Dr David
Kelly, Tom
Kenaan, General Ghazi
Kenyatta, Jomo
Kerbala: Shrine of the Imam Hussein
Kevorkian, Andy
Kfar Mishki, Lebanon
Khalilzad, Zalmay
Khaltum, Um
Khartoum: US attack on
Khatami, Mohamed
Kheroui, Saida
Khiam prison, Beirut
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah
King, Ernest Waldron
Kingdom of Heaven (film)
Kinshasa
Kinsley, Michael
Klein, Aaron
Klein, Naomi
Kleinert, Christian
Klemperer, Eva
Klemperer, Victor
Koproski, Seth
Koran, Holy: and violence; reinterpretation of; in Mohamed’s dreams
Kotcharian, Robert
Krajina
Kromberg, Gordon
Kropf, Natalie
Kubrick, Stanley
Kurds: gassed by Saddam; repressed in Syria; wish for autonomy in Iraq
Kut al-Amara

Laden, Osama bin: and Shakespeare; offers to free Kuwait; supposedly in Afghanistan; accused by USA of bombings; on massacre at Qana; videotapes of; US demonisation of; language and speeches; hatred of Saddam; moves to Sudan; author visits; on destruction; on Americans as Crusader army; on bombing Western cities; as dream-believer; and Ataturk’s tribute to Anzac dead; believes in decapitation; on death and sacrifice
Lagouranis, Tony
Lahd, General Antoine
Lancaster University
language: manipulation of; in newspapers; jargon and euphemisms; academic; and truth
Lapierre, Dominique and Larry Collins
laptops
Last Temptation of Christ, The (film)
Lavrov, Serge Lawrence.H.: Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, T.E. (’Lawrence of Arabia’); Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Lea, Henry Charles
League of Nations
Lean, David
Lebanon: Haj Amin al-Husseini in; al-Qaeda absent from; Irish Army’s UN battalion in; Palestinians massacred in; railways; state created; Israeli attacks on; Rostropovich plays in; civil war (1975-90); invaded by Israel; violence and assassinations in; religions in; as Vichy territory in World War II; government; elections; UN peacekeeping force in; beauty; treatment of dead; see also Beirut
Le Carré, John
Lemkin, Raphael
letters: handwritten
Levy, Michael Abraham, Baron
Lewinski, Monica
Lewis, Bernard
Libya: bombed by USA; and Lockerbie bombing
Lightning Hammer, Operation (Iraq)
linguistics; see also language
Litvinsky, B.A.
Livingston, Robert L.
Lloyd George, Davidt Earl
Lockerbie bombing
Loewenstein, Antony
Lom, Herbert
London: bombing plot in; wartime kitchen gardens
London Review of Books, The
Longest Day, The (film)
Longhenry, Susan
Lord, Walter: A Night to Remember
Los Angeles Times
Lula da Silva, Luiz Inacio
Luther, Martin
Lynch, Private Jessica

Maalouf, Amin
Ma’ariv (newspaper)
McCarthy, Senator Joseph
McClean, Joy
McClellan, Scott
McCormack, Sean
McEwan, Ian
McKern, Leo
McKittrick, David
McQueen, Steve
Maidstone, Kent
Makarian, Vartan
Makarios, Archbishop
Malaparte, Curzio: Kaputt
Malraux, André
Mandela, Nelson
Manningham-Buller, Dame Elizabeth
Marchant, Tony: The Mark of Cain (play)
Margin (Armenian newspaper)
Markham, Rear Admiral Albert
Marlowe, Christopher: The Jew of Malta; Tamburlaine
Marlowe, Lara
Maronites: in Lebanon
Marr, Andrew
Martins, Tracy
Massoud, Ghassan
Matisse, Henri
Media Education Foundation (MEF)
Megrahi, al- (Libyan agent)
Melki, Samia
Mellor, Elizabeth
Mellor, Richard: as ‘Frank Wills’
Mellor, Samuel
Melzen, Christina van
Menezes, Jean Charles de
Metcalfe, Peter
Metni, Bahij
Metropolitan Police
Michel, Nicolas
Middle East: media reporting of; Blair role in; elected governments in; Blair on; regimes; divided after First War War; Western perception of religious divisions; reported in USA
Military History Society of Ireland
Miller, Arthur: The Crucible
Miller, Judith
Milliyet (Turkish newspaper)
Mills, Sir John
Milosevic, Slobodan
Minghella, Anthony
Mission in Hell (film)
Mitterrand, François
Moffa, Silvano
Moghrabi, Abed
Mohamed, Khalid Shaykh
Mohamed the Prophet: caricatured in Danish newspaper; and dreams
Monde Diplomatique, Le (newspaper)
Monnet, Jean
Montand, Yves
Montferrat, Conrad, Count of
Montreal: college shootings
Montserrat, Nicholas
Moody, James
Moore, Michael
Moore, Roger
Morales, Evo
More, Kenneth
Mossad
Mostar Bridge, Bosnia
Mouawad, René
Mouawad, Wajdi: Scorched (play)
Moulin, Jean
mourning
Mousa, Baha
Moussawi, Zacarias
Mseilha castle, Lebanon
Mubarak, Hosni
Muggeridge, Malcolm
mujahedin: in Afghanistan
Mukasey, Michael
Munich (film)
Murrow, Ed
Musharraf, General Pervez: US support for; and death of Benazir Bhutto; and intelligence service
Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Council of Britain
Muslims: grievances against West; attitude to Jews; in films; as terror suspects; abused in Australia; Pope addresses; values; deny Jewish Holocaust; Western view of; outraged by Danish cartoons of Prophet Mohamed; violent acts; iconoclasm; Canadian hostility to; sectarian divisions; dreams; in Wellington, New Zealand; compassion for martyrs; in USA; demonised in American press; see also Arabs
Musri, Abdul-Hassan al-
Musri, Dr (Beirut vet)
Mussolini, Benito
Mustafa see under Sleit, Mustafa
My Lai, Vietnam
My Name Is Rachel Corrie (play)

Nairobi: US embassy attacked
Najjar, Ramzi
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French
Nasrallah, Sayed Hassan
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
National Post (Canadian newspaper)
Nazis, Nazism
Némirovsky, Irène: Suite Française
Netherlands see Holland
New Mexican (newspaper)
New York: World Trade Center attacked (9/11)
New York Theater Workshop
New York Times
New Yorker (magazine)
New Zealand
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newman, Paul
News Post Leader (Blyth weekly)
newspapers: language; reporting of Middle East; reporters’ deaths; and Hersh’s reporting; see also journalists
Newton, Sir Isaac: funeral and grave
Newton, Peter
Nicola, James
Night to Remember, A (film)
Niyazi Effendi
No Hiding Place (TV programme)
Noll, Michael
Nops, Geoffrey Austin
North Korea: nuclear programme; US dealings with
North West Passage
Northern Ireland: and killings by British soldiers; Blair and; police in; created; religious divisions
Norway: Moroccan waiter killed; see also Arvesen, Ane-Karine
Nouvel Observateur (newspaper)

O Jerusalem (film)
O’Clery, Conor
O’Connor, Gordon
oil: US demands for
Olivier, Laurence
Olmert, Ehud
Omar Khayyam
Omar, Mullah
Ondaatje, Michael
One of Our Aircraft is Missing (film)
Oran, Baskin
Orwell, George; Nineteen Eighty-Four
Oslo agreement
Osman (Turkish publisher)
Othman, Bouasria Ben
Ottoman Empire: as threat to West; and genocide of Armenians (1915); railways; see also Turkey
Owen, Wilfred

Pace, General Peter
Pain, Edward William
Pakistan: and US policy; torture in; relations with Taliban; political situation; intelligence service (ISI)
Pakistan People’s Party
Palestine: Grand Mufti of Jerusalem resists partition; British mandate in; Arabs purged (1948); see also Israel
Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)
Palestinians: flee homeland; refugees; territorial aspirations; newspaper reporting on; Victor Klemperer’s sympathy for; massacred; elected government; Israeli sanctions on; factional fighting; in Lebanon civil war; Iraqi concern for; and Jewish Holocaust; Pipes denigrates; Jimmy Carter defends
Pamuk, Orhan
Pan Am Flight
Papon, Maurice
Paris: Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits; Panthéon
Parkinson, Cecil, Baron
Parry, Robert
Paserman, Leone
Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago
Paul, Saint
Pazira, Nelofer
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land (film)
Pearl, Daniel
Peel, Michael
Peirce, Gareth
Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)
Peres, Shimon
Perle, Richard
Pétain, Marshal Philippe
Peters, Ralph
Petraeus, General David
Phalangists
Picot, François Georges
Pilet-Golaz, Marcel
Pipes, Daniel
Pompey the Great
Ponte, Carla del
Populaire, Le (newspaper)
popular culture
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Powell, Colin
Powers, Roberto
Presson, James
Project for the New American Century
Purcell, Brigadier General Patrick
Purdue, Indiana: university
Putin, Vladimir

Qaeda, al-: Iraqi links with; and Iran; planning; use of internet; US view of; executions
Qana massacre, Lebanon
Quaglioni, Diego
Quds al-Arabi, Al (newspaper)

Rabin, Yitzhak
railways and trains
Ramadi, Iraq
Randal, Jonathan
Rashed, Abdelrahman al-
Rashid, Ahmed: Taliban
Ratskoff, Bathsheba
Raymond de Saint-Gilles
Reagan, Ronald: and bombing of Libya; and Begin’s attack on Beirut; and US withdrawal from Lebanon; letter from Begin; and shooting down of Iranian airliner
Red Cross, International Committee of the
Redgrave, Vanessa
Reid, John
Reid, Richard
Rendition (film)
Renner, Michael
Reuters (news agency)
Reynolds, Father Gerry
Reynolds, Harold
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Rice, Condoleezza: rhetoric against terrorists; on Arafat; Chalabi meets; on new Iraq constitution
Richardson, Sergeant W.R.
Richter, Sviatoslav
Rifkin, Jeremy
Ripley, Robert
’Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!’ (newspaper column)
Riza, Ahmed
Robinson, Mary
Roehm, Erich
Rome, ancient: and modern Iraq; ruthlessness; Colosseum
Roper, Lyndal
Rose, Arthur (author’s maternal grandfather)
Rose, Fleming
Rose, Phyllis (author’s maternal grandmother)
Rostropovich, Mstislav
Rothemund, Marc
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rowland, Jacky
Rubin, James
Rumsfeld, Donald: sees film Black Hawk Down; on Iran; on Israeli occupied territories; visits Saddam; on US misbehaviour in Iraq; Chalabi meets; military strength in Iraq; O’Connor praises leadership on retirement; character
Russia: and Swiss Red Cross missions in World War II; sinks escaping ships in Baltic

Sabbah, Hassan-i
Sabra and Chatila massacre (1982)
Sadat, Anwar
Saddam Hussein: and Shakespeare; Shi’ites and Kurds attack; rhetoric; Bush attacks; and Halabja massacre of Kurds; as supposed al-Qaeda ally; Rumsfeld visits; alleged alliance with al-Qaeda; bin Laden hates; war with Iran,
; meeting with Clifton; and UN forces; supported by West; trial; irrelevance in modern Iraq; power; gas warfare against Iranians; self importance; Australian relations with; backed by USA in war with Iran; execution
Safire, William
Said, Edward
Saidi, Imad
Saladin: in film Kingdom of Heaven; tomb; and Assassins
Salman, Mohamed
Sampson, Major Burford
Sandburg, Carl
Santa Fe
Santoro, Michele
Sapone, Beppo
Sargsian, Serzh
Sarkozy, Nicolas
Sassoon, Siegfried
Saudi Arabia: US presence in; funds Taliban; nationals killed in 9/11 attack; and US war on terror; imprisons al-Qaeda members; and Sir S. Cowper-Coles (Abu Henry); and BAE Systems arms sale; executions in
Saving Private Ryan (film)
Scargill, Arthur
Schindler’s List (fim)
Schwarzkopf, General Norman
Sciuscia (Italian TV programme)
Scott, Sir Ridley
Scullard, Howard Hayes: From the Gracchi to Nero
Sderot, Israel
Seddon, Captain Richard John Spotswood
Serious Fraud Office (SFO), London
Seventh Seal, The (film)
Shakespeare, William: fascination with war; and Muslims; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; Henry IV; Henry V, ; Henry VI, Part III, ; Julius Caesar; King John; King Lear; Macbeth; The Merchant of Venice; Othello; The Tempest
Shamseddin, Mehdi
Sharif, Omar
Sharjah
Sharon, Ariel: requests USA break with Arafat; claims to fight against terror; besieges Beirut (1982); responsibility for Sabra and Chatila massacres; Elliott Abrams supports; illness; disparages Arafat; as war criminal
Shatt al-Arab
Shaw, George Bernard
Shawki, Abu (Israeli agent)
Shehdi, Marwan el-
Shepherd, John
Sherriff, R.C.: Journey’s End
Shia Muslims: in Lebanon; and Iraq election; distinguished from Sunni in Time magazine; kill Sunnis
Shibh, Ramzi bin al-
Shirer, William: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Shlaim, Avi
Shotter, David
Signoret, Simone
Sim, Alastair
Simon, Rich
Simon, Steven
Siniora, Fouad
Sleit, Mustafa
Smith, Captain Edward John
Smith, Howard K.
Smith, S. O’Carrol
Sneiheh, Imad Abu
Snow, Jon
Solh, Riad
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Somalia
Sophie Scholl - the Final Days (film)
South Africa: repression under apartheid; and Israel
South Lebanon Army
Spain: bombing attack
Spartacus
Spartacus (film)
Specter, Arlen
Spielberg, Steven
Sponeck, Hans von: A Different Kind of War
Srebrenica
Sri Lanka
Stalin, Joseph: on capture of Berlin; and Armenia
Stead, William Thomas
Stein, Kenneth
Stephenson, Paul
Sterling, Claire
Stern gang
Straw, Jack
Streep, Meryl
Suchar, Chuck
Suez Canal: nationalised (1956)
Sugg, John
suicide bombers: efficacy; in Israel; spread; in Iraq; in Syria; in Sri Lanka; praised by al-Qaeda; named after martyrs
Sunni Muslims: in Lebanon; and Iraq elections; distinguished from Shi’ites in Time magazine; kill Shias
Sutherland, Colonel David
Sutton Valence (school), Kent; old boys’ deaths
Suttonian, The (magazine)
Swift, Jonathan: epitaph
Switzerland: Red Cross missions to Nazi eastern front
Sydow, Max von
Sykes, Sir Mark
Syria: in US policy; and US rendition; French mandate; intervention in Lebanon; Baathism in; and murder of Rafiq Hariri; see also Hama
Syria Times
Syriana (film)

Tabbaa, Majida
Taghmaoui, Said
Tajikistan
Talat Pasha
Taliban: protect bin Laden in Afghanistan; supported by Saudi Arabia; presence in Afghanistan; resurgence; destroy Buddhist art works; links with Pakistan; Pakistan intelligence service works for; executions
Tamanian, Aleksander
Taylor, A.J.P.; The Struggle for Mastery in Europe
telex machines
Tenet, George
Ter-Petrosian, Levon
‘terrorism’: US preocuupation with; Israeli actions against; as justification for reaction; Bush’s use of word; word in newspaper reports
Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness
Thompson, Emma
Time magazine
Times, The (newspaper)
Titanic (film)
Titanic, SS; cemetery (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Tito, Josip Broz
Tolstoy, Count Lev
tombs and graves
Toronto: racial divisions; Taragon Theatre
Toronto Globe and Mail (newspaper)
Toronto Star (newspaper)
torture: in Middle Ages; in Algeria; and euphemism; and US rendition; in Lebanon; in Pakistan; widespread use of; denied by USA; in Egypt
Townshend, Major-General Charles
Transjordan: British mandate in
Tripoli, Lebanon: Castle of Saint Gilles
Tryon, Vice Admiral Sir George
Tudjman, Franjo
Tueni, Gibran
Turkey: denies 1915 Armenian Holocaust; aspires to EU membership; US air bases in; adopts roman script; and Arab revolt (1914-18); see also Ottoman Empire
Turner, Brook
Turner, J.M.W.

Ulbricht, Walter
United 93 Flight (USA)
United Nations: orders Hizballah to disarm; in Lebanon; and Hama uprising; peacekeeping forces; and invasion of Iraq
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil)
United Nations Security Council: Powell addresses; Resolution ; Resolution 1559
United States of America: Arab suspicions of; embassies attacked; support for Israel; ‘terrorism’ claims; 9/11 attack on; Middle Eastern hostility to; interrogation methods; Patriot Act; oil imports; National Security Decision Directive; Armenian genocide denied in; and rendition torture; denies shooting incidents in Iraq; solders’ creed and ethos; denies torture; post First World War plans for Arab democracy; author lectures in; Muslims in; media reporting of Middle East; stalemate in Iraq; relations with Brazil; fear of attack by jihadists; and withdrawal from Iraq; author refused entry for passport confusion
University College, Dublin
USA Today (newspaper)
Uzbekistan

Vakhsh, statue of ‘sleeping’ buddha
Valdosta, Georgia, USA: university
Vanunu, Mordechai
Vargas, Getúlio
Vehip Pasha, General Mehmet
Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
Victoria, HMS
Vincennes, USS
Vincent de Paul, St
Virgil
Voices in Conflict (play)
Voltaire, Jean François Marie Arouet de
Vorster, John

Waldeberger, Charles
Waldheim, Kurt
Wall Street Journal
Wallace, William
Walter (Beirut cat)
Wandel, Carl
war crimes: and reporters’ testimonies
Wardle, Robert
wars: and atrocities; and killing
Warsaw Ghetto
Washington Post
waterboarding
Weald of Kent
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary
Wegner, Armen
Wellington, Arthur Wellesleyt Duke of
Wellington, New Zealand
Wells, Walter
Wente, Margaret
West Bank: as independent Palestinian state; Israeli settlements
West, F.J. (’Bing’): No True Glory
Wilhelm Gustloff (ship)
Willcock, Malcolm
Williams, Stephen
Wills, Frank Oswald: identity (as Mellor)
Wilson, Woodrow
Wilton High School, Connecticut
Winchester, Simon
Winslet, Kate
Wolfensohn, James
Wolfowitz, Paul
Wong, Jan
Woodward, Bob
World Trade Center see New York
World War I
World War II: Lebanon in
Wright, Joe
writing: methods; by hand

Yad Vashem: Holocaust museum
Yashayaie, Haroun
Yee, Imam
Yehoshua, A.B.
Yerevan, Armenia
Yusufzai, Rahimullah

Z Cars (TV programme)
Zarakolu, Ragip
Zhivkov, Todor
Zidane, Zinédine
Zionism: and partition of Palestine; Arab hostility to; Klemperer on; Ahmadinejad attacks
Ziya, Mohamed
Zola, Emile