washingtonpost.com - Nora Boustany - Diplomatic Dispatches (washingtonpost.com)Nora Boustany's Diplomatic Dispatches column appears twice weekly in The Washington Post. Read Diplomatic Dispatches for the latest news from the Washington-based diplomatic community.A Legacy in Progress- June 30, 2006 Former Colombian president Andrs Pastrana , who has survived nine assassination attempts, multiple death threats, a kidnapping and a controversial career, is back in the trenches.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... Rights Activists Come Knocking At the Iranian Interests Section- June 28, 2006 Iranian diplomats at the Iranian Interests Section on Wisconsin Avenue listened courteously to a delegation of prominent individuals who came calling last Friday to protest the detention of Iranian professor and philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo . But the envoys offered no explanation for the arrest or word of when the prisoner might go free.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... U.S. Filmmakers Help Bring AIDS Out of the Shadows in China- June 23, 2006 Two Americans interested in the stigma that AIDS patients face in China started out on a filmmaking journey with goodwill and naivete and ended up with a haunting, award-winning documentary.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... House of Sweden, Not Just a Dream- June 21, 2006 Who said diplomats can't be dreamershttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... A Ugandan Lawyer's Passage From Skeptical Little Girl to 'Pleader for Women'- June 16, 2006 By the time she was 7, Miria Matembe was already aware of the unfairness women and girls endured in Uganda.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... A Trail From Jordan to Zarqawi- June 14, 2006 When Ziad Khalaf al-Kerbouly was captured in Iraq three weeks ago by the Knights of Justice, or Fursan al-Haq , a unit operating under Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate, insurgents played down the arrest and described him as a "small-timer," according to Jordan's ambassador to Washington, Karim Kawar .http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... A Poet Who 'Never Sold Her Pen or Soul'- June 10, 2006 The voice of poet Simin Behbahani rises, soothing the wounds of Iranians betrayed by a revolution that has curtailed their rights and failed to deliver social justice.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... Running Start for Libyan Mission- June 7, 2006 A li Suleiman Aujali , the chief of the Libyan Liaison Office here, has not been installed as Libya's new ambassador to the United States, but his nine-diplomat mission in the Watergate building has been busy receiving the first high-level delegation of Libyan officials since the normalization of diplomatic and economic ties between Tripoli and Washington was announced last month.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... |