Archive for April 22, 2005

Conversation with the Gardener, c.1875. Renoir. 

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

“Turks and Armenians: Forgotten holocaust”

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

Women in Parliament (from Economist) 

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

The Pope’s Failures (By Slavoj Zizek)

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

Armenian Genocide

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

Not even during the Cold War years, did Foreign Affairs print such crude propaganda (not even polemics): “Four years later, however, a president who had “planted the flag of liberty” in Arab lands had no choice but to take up the cause of Lebanon’s independence.” (Also note how much Ajami praises the right-wing sectarian Christian [...]

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

Angry Pope on Galileo’s trial: “At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just”

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

“After 100 days, Palestinian leader’s aura begins to fade” (it should have taken 100 nanoseconds)

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

I hear these days that Rafiq Hariri was opposed in principle to the appointment or election of people with security/military backgrounds to public office in Lebanon. Not true. From the late 1980s onwards, Hariri worked hard to install his ally, the notorious Johny `Abduh–former head of the brutal Lebanese intelligence service in the war years–as [...]

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

“A state department report which showed an increase in terrorism incidents around the world in 2004 was altered to strip it of its pessimistic statistics”

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

“And boy, does it take off. Predictably, Friedman spends the rest of his huge book piling one insane image on top of the other, so that by the end—and I’m not joking here—we are meant to understand that the flat world is a giant ice-cream sundae that is more beef than sizzle, in which everyone [...]

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

Angry Arab with his students at Model UN last week.  (thanks Ninus for the picture)

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

UK “Academics have voted to boycott two Israeli universities over their alleged involvement in “illegal activity” in the occupied territories.” (thanks Joseph)

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

“Young girls who enjoy classic romantic fairy tales like “Cinderella” and “Beauty and the Beast” are at greater risk of becoming victims of violent relationships in later life, a British researcher says.” (thanks Maryam)

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

“Arab League-UNICEF report reveals more than 10 million children in Arab world are out of school.” (thanks anonymous)

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

Amnesty International: “Stop attacks on Syrian workers and bring perpetrators to justice”

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

Rodeo…in the Arab world. Read all about it. So Elizabeth Cheney was on the official American TV for the Arab world (i.e. AlArabiyya). The interview was–typically of AlArabiyya–sprinkled with smiles and excessive courtesy, and you get that if you are a US official appearing on AlArabiyya. Cheney, as you know, is depurty Assistant Secretary of [...]

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad

I am always amazed at those who change their ideological beliefs with the same frequency that they change their socks. The new Lebanese minister Trad Hamadah is one example. He started as a Marxist, and then became an Arab nationalist, and then joined the Fath Movement. Now, he is a minister representing Hizbullah. I will [...]

Posted on April 22, 2005 by As'ad