Archive for March 24, 2006
“Harvard, the observer said, had received “several calls” from “pro-Israel donors” expressing concern about the Walt-Mearsheimer paper. One of the angered contributors is said to be the donor who underwrote the chair occupied by Dean Walt, Robert Belfer. Mr. Belfer, a 1958 graduate of Harvard Law School, endowed a faculty chair as part of a [...]
Posted on March 24, 2006 by As'ad
“The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) removed its logo from a controversial paper published last week by Academic Dean Stephen M. Walt and the University of Chicago’s John J. Mearsheimer. A disclaimer stating that the views expressed belong only to the authors was also made more prominent on the working paper’s cover.”
Posted on March 24, 2006 by As'ad
“la violence, l’enfermement, le régime alimentaire constitué uniquement d’eau, de labné et de thym une seule fois par jour, le réfrigérateur bouclé, les nuits passées dans la salle de bains, le travail sans arrêt jusqu’àtrois heures du matin, le non-paiement de son salaire.” (thanks Hodie)
Posted on March 24, 2006 by As'ad
Oppressive governments that you like: “The United Nations refugee agency said Friday it was concerned about deteriorating conditions for Palestinians in Iraq, citing death threatsagainst Palestinian families in one Baghdad neighborhood.”
Posted on March 24, 2006 by As'ad
“John Mearsheimer says that the pro-Israel lobby is so powerful that he and co-author Stephen Walt would never have been able to place their report in a American-based scientific publication.” (I hate the word “scientific” in academia.) (thanks Sami)
Posted on March 24, 2006 by As'ad
Brain “liberation”: The Iraqi brain drain
Posted on March 24, 2006 by As'ad
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Posted on March 24, 2006 by As'ad
Arab Chicken and the Mukhabarat: Poor Arab chicken. Now that there is fear of Avian flu, the Arab intelligence services must be hard at work. They must be interrogating and torturing chicken to get to the bottom of this case. There must be torture of chicken taking place as we speak: secret police want to [...]
Posted on March 24, 2006 by As'ad
I like Brian Whitaker. He is one of my favorite Western journalists who write on the Arab world. He has a great critique of the Arab Development Report, and of the Western exploitation of it. He also authored that famous article on MEMRI. I never met the man, but today was most disappointed to read [...]
Posted on March 24, 2006 by As'ad
Radical feminists are correct. Gender appointments under patriarchy are useless and meaningless. I thought about this as I listened to an interview on CNN with the only female minister at UAE, Lubna Al-Qasimi. She sounded so pro-Bush, that I expected her to deny the torture at Abu Graib. She denied that there are any negative [...]
Posted on March 24, 2006 by As'ad
The Arab Female vice-President: The Ba`th Party and Culture. So the Syrian government wishes to convince us that this was a coup, an impressive gesture intended to put the Syrian government in a favorable light. Najah Al-`Attar, 74, (shown above with her wig which she wears instead of the regular veil because the Ba`th frowned [...]
Posted on March 24, 2006 by As'ad