Archive for March 7, 2008

My article in Al-Akhbar: “The Cole Destroyer: It came for your sake, so celebrate.”

Posted on March 7, 2008 by As'ad

Oxfam on Gaza. (thanks Karim)

Posted on March 7, 2008 by As'ad

“Yasser Arafat is long dead, but his curse lives on: We are still drinking the seawater of Gaza, cursed water, salty and dirty – you can neither swallow it nor vomit it out.” (thanks Aida)

Posted on March 7, 2008 by As'ad

“Collaboration is a very thorny issue, primarily because of its corrosive blend of betrayal, exploitation and deceit, so it’s not surprising that Army of Shadows created a stir when the Hebrew edition was published in 2004. Both liberal Jews and Palestinians found the book difficult to digest because each group found its side portrayed in [...]

Posted on March 7, 2008 by As'ad

Arab diplomacy. Arab foreign ministers officially ask Israel to keep lying about its nuclear arsenal. (thanks Samir)

Posted on March 7, 2008 by As'ad

“The Lure of the East includes approximately ninety paintings, prints, and drawings that depict sites and subjects of interest to British artists, including bazaars, public baths, and domestic interiors.” (thanks Nouri)

Posted on March 7, 2008 by As'ad

Bringing the tribe back in. Theda Skocpol and others wrote a book years ago titled Bringing the State Back In. Somebody should write a book on Brining the Tribe Back in under the Bush administration. “Running out of options in Pakistan’s lawless tribal regions, the Bush administration is backing local militiamen with unclear allegiances.” (thanks [...]

Posted on March 7, 2008 by As'ad

“SCIENTISTS AT CALTECH and Stanford recently published the results of a peculiar wine tasting. They provided people with cabernet sauvignons at various price points, with bottles ranging from $5 to $90. Although the tasters were told that all the wines were different, the scientists were in fact presenting the same wines at different prices. The [...]

Posted on March 7, 2008 by As'ad

“The real question is thus not whether poverty has fallen but whether the Chávez government has been particularly effective at converting this period of economic growth into poverty reduction. One way to evaluate this is by calculating the reduction in poverty for every percentage point increase in per capita income — in economists’ lingo, the [...]

Posted on March 7, 2008 by As'ad

“The scene outside the yeshiva was furious and passionate, with at least 50 ambulances and as many police cars, and angry students and local residents lined up behind police tapes, chanting, “Death to Arabs.” (On CNN yesterday, the Jerusalem correspondent, Atika Shubert, report on this scene by saying: that local Israeli “chanted for justice.”). I [...]

Posted on March 7, 2008 by As'ad

“Former CNN Jerusalem Correspondent Advises Jewish Groups on Countering Unbalanced Israel Coverage.”

Posted on March 7, 2008 by As'ad

I received this from a professor there: “You didn’t hear it from me–but when the Saudis approached AUB in order to help with this university (or one like it, I can’t recall exactly)–set up the engineering and graphic design departments–they stipulated that “only male professors” were wanted for the project. I refused categorically (…….department at [...]

Posted on March 7, 2008 by As'ad