Archive for December 10, 2004
Grand Canal: Looking North-East from the Palazzo Corner-Spinelli to the Rialto Bridge, c. 1725. Canaletto. (Click on image to enjoy).
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
“A shelter for women and girls forced into the sex trade temporarily shut its doors Friday after gunmen kidnapped 92 of its occupants and made death threats against the staff.”
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
“Powell Advises Mideast Caution: ‘Can’t Leap Ahead’ On Palestinian State.” Wait Another Century he Urges.
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
Israeli Soldiers’ Testimony Supports Claims of Abuse.
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
‘I was tortured for saying the flogging must end in Iran’.
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
A seven-year-old Palestinian girl was killed by Israeli troops yesterday as she was eating lunch in her home. US and Israel declare her death a victory in the war on “terrorism.”
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
Fallujah: The homecoming and the homeless.
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
Guantánamo torture and humiliation still going on, says shackled Briton.
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
This is Zionism: His little sister, 7, killed by Israeli forces.
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
Barrenness by Iraqi poet Baland Haydari (my translation): The same road the same houses, pulled by deep effort the same silence we used to say: Tomorrow he will die, and the voices of little children from every house will rise rolling with the day on the road and they will mock our yesterdays and with [...]
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
Saddam’s Trial: Instead of grading, I was distracted today by a book I recently obtained. Husayn Ash-Shahristani’s memoirs titled Al-Hurub Min-a-l-Hurriyyah (Escape from Freedom), (and by books of Arabic poetry and the Sirah of Sayf bin dhi Yazan.) Shahristani is an Iraqi nuclear physicist who was jailed and tortured by Saddam in 1979, and later [...]
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
The Saudi King of Jordan: Strong reactions in the Arab world (not only in Shi`ite quarters) to the foolish statements by the foolish King of Jordan in which he warned of Shi`ite zone of danger. Respected Lebanese columnist, Joseph Samahah, today called him `Abdullah Az-Zarqawi, and compared his rhetoric to the rhetoric of Abu Mus`ab [...]
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
On War (thanks Sinan).
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
An Open Letter to Bush: Stop Destroying the Mosques of Iraq (By RALPH NADER).
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad
“Corporate greed, the ruination of traditional ways of life, share-price bubbles, western imperialism: all these modern complaints were made against the British East India Company in the 18th century.”
Posted on December 10, 2004 by As'ad