Archive for July 18, 2007

The Cedar Revolution marches on. Two people entered the room where two Syrian workers live in Hammana–a Jumblat stronghold, and Zakariyya Adh-Dhaffar, 26, was stabbed to death, and Mahim Kamalah, 20, was injured.

Posted on July 18, 2007 by As'ad

Is there a more unprincipled intellectual than Karim Muruwwah? I mean, this guy was a Soviet Stalinist when the left was ascendant, and is now a Jumblat loyalist in the age of conservatism. Give him time: he will switch again. Personally, I did not enjoy him as a Marxist, and enjoy him less as a [...]

Posted on July 18, 2007 by As'ad

Between Pakistan, Turkey, and UK I really missed…fast internet connections (and clean public bathrooms).

Posted on July 18, 2007 by As'ad

Tha’ir Ghandur on the Bristol Festival in Beirut.

Posted on July 18, 2007 by As'ad

I have been gone for 3 weeks and the news is still the same: Bush is still making progress in Iraq, and the Lebanese Army is still making progress in Nahr Al-Barid. And Arab governments continue to uncover terrorist plots at the rate of one-a-week.

Posted on July 18, 2007 by As'ad

Did you see the speech by Abu Mazen today? He is issuing fatwawawawas now? I kid you not. He even invoked the name Satan (as in the “Satanic” influences of his rivals.)

Posted on July 18, 2007 by As'ad

Just arrived in the US. Not that you care.

Posted on July 18, 2007 by As'ad

هل كان للعدوان على لبنان من أعوان؟

تمرّ الذكرى السنوية الأولى للعدوان الإسرائيلي على لبنان في جوّ سياسي ملبّد. فالأكثرية الحاكمة، بإرادة الراعي الأميركي، لا تزال تتعامل مع مقاومة الاحتلال وكأنها مخجلة ومحرجة للوطن. وعندما وقّع فؤاد السنيورة قبل شهرين أو أكثر (وأحمد فتفت ــــــ ما غيره ــــــ إلى جانبه) عريضة إماراتية لنصرة القدس، أثنى على العريضة وعلى العرائض وطالب بأساليب «حضارية» [...]

Posted on July 18, 2007 by admin