Archive for October 16, 2005

“Looking for a good fight: After Iraq, is the liberal hawk an endangered species?”

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“A senior British military police officer in Iraq involved in the investigation of alleged abuse of Iraqi civilians by soldiers has been found dead at a camp in Basra.”

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“God bloggers’ religious and political power”

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The Ghazi Kan`an mystery: Lebanese editor, Walid `Awad, revealed in an interview on New TV that Ghazi Kan`an privately talked to Wardah Az-Zamil (of Voice of Lebanon) after she aired his statement. He apparently told her that you will “hear major news in 30 minutes.”

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Members of the Kuwaiti royal family reconcile.

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Once and for all, now we know who really is behind the Iraqi insurgency (thanks Amina)

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“Benefits of Diaspora”

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“We killed your innocent wife, but we are a “sympathetic” occupation. Get over it.” SF Chronicle printed this picture with this caption: “Lt. Col. Todd Wood (far left) speaks sympathetically to Nebras Khalid Nasser (holding son, Ahmed), who is mourning the death of his wife by a U.S. bullet. Second from left is Wood’s translator, [...]

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“A transnational umma: reality or myth?” (thanks `Amir)

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I came across this while reading (on the plane) Al-Imta` Wa-l-Mu’anasah by Abu Hayyan At-Tawhidi (d. 400 AH) who–to my distress–was so distressed at the end of his life that he burnt his books (only a few survived). أنتَ للمال إذا أمسكته فاذا أنفقته فالمالُ لك(You belong to the money, if you held it; but [...]

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Racism of Lebanonese right-wing nationalism: in a taped conversation in Paris and aired on LBC-TV, the head of the Lebanese Forces, war criminal Samir Ja`ja`, was commenting on the deteriorating situation in Lebanon. He said that things are so bad that they would not happen “not even in Africa.”

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Angry Arab review of the lousy Arabic Simpsons in The Guardian and in the Wall Street Journal (reprinted in other newspapers).

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Some people who newly arrive to the site wonder why I don’t post Islamic or Middle East art. I did; for months, until I almost exhausted my collection. I do not have to take new visitors by the hand to the archives’ section to prove it. Some people who newly arrive to the site wonder [...]

Posted on October 16, 2005 by As'ad