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The politics of the Middle have loved it if the Screening Saves East are not black or white, good or 2013 3–16, OCT Reimagining Lives Project could also have includ- fi lmmaker’s sexuality over the past sev- prevented them from getting on a fl ight #755 eral weeks as he languished in an Egyp- to Germany. bad. Egypt, as well as Syria, kills more ed a prostate cancer component. But tian prison with Canadian doctor Tarek Columnist Margaret Wente, The Globe of its own citizens in a day than Israel to criticize a program that is going to has killed Palestinians in years. The REGENT PARK A neglected neighbourhood save lives by promoting screening is Loubani. Much of the media took the and Mail’s radical grandstander, wrote emerges as a modern example settler movement in Israel is almost of urban renewal shortsighted and irresponsible. unusual step of leaving out this detail, soon after that “Many of the media E16 as bad as the Islamist forces that want MARIE worried about the potential harm that haven’t mentioned that Mr Greyson is @dailyxtra TORONTO, ON might come to Greyson if prison guards, gay for fear that it would go worse for to impose their world view on the whole of the Middle East. Both are or his cellmates, found out about his him in homophobic Egypt. But it’s no facebook.com/dailyxtra driven by extreme religious beliefs. 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