Archive for March 3, 2005

Full text: UN’s Women and Gender Equality Report.

Posted on March 3, 2005 by As'ad

There is charity, and then there is wasteful and ostentatious “giving”: “Aga Khan gives £27m to Chantilly restoration”

Posted on March 3, 2005 by As'ad

“As Voltaire lay dying, a priest urged on him the virtues of Jesus. His response, “Sir, do not speak to me anymore about that man”…”

Posted on March 3, 2005 by As'ad

Saudi Crown Prince Means Business (and I don’t mean monkey business): “Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah has advised Syria to pull its troops out of Lebanon “rapidly”, a Saudi official has said.” Now I do not disagree with that demand, but I wonder. Would that brave Saudi polygamous prince (not to be confused with all [...]

Posted on March 3, 2005 by As'ad

Sectarianism: the last refuge of Lebanese scoundrels, and keeping Sectarian Dynasties Alive. Ostensible and artificial Lebanese unity, always masquerading behind flags and Baba Ghannuj, splits and fragments along sectarian fissures, always. What passes as “national unity” is no more than temporary sectarian arrangements and marriages of convenience. So the Lebanese “opposition” met in Mukhtara palace–the [...]

Posted on March 3, 2005 by As'ad

When the Left is “Right” in Lebanon: THE LEFT is ALIVE in Uruguay, but dead in…LEBANON. It is worse in Lebanon; there is a small group of former leftists who claim that they constitute the “new left.” I have written in an article in As-Safir that they are more the like “old right.” They share [...]

Posted on March 3, 2005 by As'ad

My dear friend Bassam got it right: “”What’s missing from all the pictures we’re seeing is the 50% of the Lebanese public which is not supportive of the opposition,” said Bassam Haddad, a political science professor and Syria expert at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. “I think in the next week or so we’ll begin [...]

Posted on March 3, 2005 by As'ad

Angry Arab warns: Don’t Play with the fire of Lebanon.

Posted on March 3, 2005 by As'ad

Angry Arab pontificates.

Posted on March 3, 2005 by As'ad