Among desolate ruins still remaining from the 2010 Christchurch earthquake and shining new buildings under construction, my sister Imogen, my nephew Mark and I, stood with a distinguished Māori scholar Te Maire Tau in front of the stylish façade of the tribal headquarters of Ngai
The vilification of refugees from Syria and the backlash against Islam following the atrocities in Paris, compel me to respond. The Republican Islamophobes currently competing for the US presidency and their followers are trying to capitalize on fear, just as George Bush did to arouse
The horror of the current Syrian refugee crisis, coinciding with the destruction of the two thousand year old Temple of Bel at Palmyra, intensified the pain that I have felt ever since Bashar al-Assad ordered police to attack peaceful protesters with live bullets in the