Archive for September 23, 2005
“Affluent Students Displaced by Katrina Find World of Options, While Others Must Put Education on Hold” (thanks Maryam)
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
The Washington Post webpage says: “The Angry Arab New Service:Blogger lives up to his name.” (Angry Arab: The Washington Post also lives up to its name)
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
“Sistani tells followers to support new constitution” (Another reason to oppose it)
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
Full text. “New Accounts of Torture by U.S. Troops.”
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
“On the eve of large anti-war demonstrations in Washington and London, Hart Viges has told how indiscriminate fire from US troops is likely to have killed an untold number of Iraqi civilians. Mr Viges, 29, said he was still haunted by the memories of what he experienced and urged President George Bush to withdraw US [...]
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
“Half of European citizens speak a second language, according to a European Union survey released Friday.”
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
“A Pakistani man cut the nose and lips off his 19-year-old sister-in-law after she went to court for a divorce”
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
“a congressionally mandated advisory panel to the department warned that “America’s image and reputation abroad could hardly be worse.”” No way! Why?
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
Look at the opinion page of the Daily Star, a Lebanese newspaper published in the Arab world. Do they really speak for opinion in Lebanon, or in the region? (By the way, the editor of this page is right-wing neo-con, Michael Young)
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
“Purging the Poor”
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
“FBI, Michigan Police Tag Peace Group, Affirmative Action Group, and Others as “Terrorist””
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
When Jalal Talbani tells American leaders of the Wall Street Journal: “Thank you for liberating my country. Please don’t leave before the job is done.,” how many Iraqis does he speak for? Do some Americans really assume that he is speaking here on behalf of all Iraqis?
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
From the poem From the Notebooks of Fog by Syrian poet Muhammad Al-Maghut (my translation):“Advise to any poem:The hungry will eat youthe frustrated will get youthe merchant will sell youthe doctor will deform youthe philosopher will debate youthe lover will recite youand the struggler willtrade in youAnd you, o poets, critics, singers,and executioners, beware ofconceitremember [...]
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
This is the new Beirut. The Municipality of Beirut, headed by a Hariri functionary, decided yesterday to name the new avenue by the sea, the King Fahd Corniche.
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
True story: when I was a graduate student in the 1980s, I was invited by an Arab student group at the University of Kansas to give a talk. The leader of the group was a Syrian student by the name of Tha’ir Lahham. He picked me up from the airport, and takes me for tea [...]
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
Nocturne in Blue and Green; Chelsea. 1870. James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
As you know, I have never ever been a fan of Hamas. I disagree with them on ideology and on practice and on style. Not only do I disagree with their suicide bombings, and rhetoric, but I have also particularly detested their rhetorical bombast and their military parades. I don’t know what or who was [...]
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
“Nato-controlled Afghan regions record huge increase in opium production”
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
“This is global warming, says environmental chief”
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad
“Saudi militants in Iraq.”
Posted on September 23, 2005 by As'ad