http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog Soccer as a second language Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:25:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Copyright © The Global Game 2011 admin@theglobalgame.com (The Global Game) admin@theglobalgame.com (The Global Game) 1440 http://www.theglobalgame.com/images/dembaksm.jpg http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog 144 144 Soccer as a second language The Global Game The Global Game admin@theglobalgame.com no no http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/when-kanoute-scored-and-iraq-exploded%e2%80%94a-spurs-supporters-prison-diray/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/when-kanoute-scored-and-iraq-exploded%e2%80%94a-spurs-supporters-prison-diray/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 02:16:23 +0000 Emad Nimah http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3190 Emad Nimah's "grief was made worse due to total ignorance of how Tottenham were getting on."]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/when-kanoute-scored-and-iraq-exploded%e2%80%94a-spurs-supporters-prison-diray/feed/ 2 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/palestinian-soccer-drama%e2%80%94%e2%80%98team-building-for-social-change/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/palestinian-soccer-drama%e2%80%94%e2%80%98team-building-for-social-change/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 01:51:41 +0000 Alon Raab http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=3160 The Team creates a football-based "soap opera for social change."]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/05/palestinian-soccer-drama%e2%80%94%e2%80%98team-building-for-social-change/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/05/israel-settling-palestinian-question-in-90-minute-war/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/05/israel-settling-palestinian-question-in-90-minute-war/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 18:37:04 +0000 Alon Raab http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=2222 Itay Meirson's first novel, Milchemet Tisheem Hadakot (The 90-Minute War), the intractable Middle Eastern dispute over Palestine is decided in one football match. The winning team keeps the Holy Land. The losers get eastern Oregon.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/05/israel-settling-palestinian-question-in-90-minute-war/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/12/literature-for-3-days-in-tel-aviv-football-becomes-more-than-metaphor/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/12/literature-for-3-days-in-tel-aviv-football-becomes-more-than-metaphor/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:01:48 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=1100 May friendly against Germany in Berlin, during which novelist Assaf Gavron confirmed his intuition that Germans do not miss penalties. (Dec 12)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/12/literature-for-3-days-in-tel-aviv-football-becomes-more-than-metaphor/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/cinema-attempting-jewish-arab-reconciliation-in-a-10-minute-game/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/cinema-attempting-jewish-arab-reconciliation-in-a-10-minute-game/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:15:36 +0000 Gwendolyn Oxenham http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=947 Gwendolyn Oxenham's diaries supporting an in-process documentary film, The Soccer Project, about four recent college graduates and their pursuit of improvisational soccer matches around the world.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/cinema-attempting-jewish-arab-reconciliation-in-a-10-minute-game/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/08/visual-arts-defeating-the-forces-of-babylon-through-love-and-soccer/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/08/visual-arts-defeating-the-forces-of-babylon-through-love-and-soccer/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:48:34 +0000 Alon Raab http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=507 Ido Shemi shows how benevolent objectives might be achieved through humor, creativity and football.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/08/visual-arts-defeating-the-forces-of-babylon-through-love-and-soccer/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/cinema-in-tiro-libre-walls-of-separation-and-misunderstanding/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/cinema-in-tiro-libre-walls-of-separation-and-misunderstanding/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:59:45 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=442 Ed M. Koziarski, "Social Justice, with Soccer," Chicago Reader, Apr 3).]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/cinema-in-tiro-libre-walls-of-separation-and-misunderstanding/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/religion-holocaust-era-exile-haunts-chelsea-managers-father/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/religion-holocaust-era-exile-haunts-chelsea-managers-father/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:37:36 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=358 Jewish Chronicle of London, Meir Granat—father of Chelsea manager Avram Grant—details the displacement and death that met the Hasidic family in wartime Europe (Simon Griver, "Shoah Horrors That Haunt Avram Grant”). (Jan 11)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/religion-holocaust-era-exile-haunts-chelsea-managers-father/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/the-hard-surface-of-palestinian-womens-football/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/the-hard-surface-of-palestinian-womens-football/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:24:23 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=357 Bethlehem, West Bank, Jan 11 | The statement of the biblical Ruth, the Moabite, a poor woman gleaning in Bethlehem (“house of bread”) behind reapers of barley strikes a parallel with the women's football team from Palestine, taking its passion and pleasure from scraps left by a patriarchal culture and occupying authorities.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/the-hard-surface-of-palestinian-womens-football/feed/ 2