Archive for May 1, 2008

“On Wednesday this week, Mr Yusef explains, his family didn’t eat during daylight at all. “We had our breakfast in the evening. My wife said: ‘All day you haven’t been able to find something.’ A visiting friend overheard and lent Mr Yusef 10 shekels to buy some luncheon meat, which provided their one meal of [...]

Posted on May 1, 2008 by As'ad

Raghidah Dirgham (the NY correspondent for the mouthpiece of Prince Khalid bin Sultan Al Bribe) warns Bush, Rice AND the American public: that if they fail the Dahlan camp in Palestine, it will be “a huge strategic loss for peace.”

Posted on May 1, 2008 by As'ad

“”Apparently he is a well known member of the Arab-American community in Dearborn,” a McCain staffer tells ABC News. “He is also a known Republican donor and former Bush finance committee member. When these rumors surfaced he notified the campaign and we removed him from the finance committee. The guy never raised a dime for [...]

Posted on May 1, 2008 by As'ad

I finished reading Kitab Al-Gharib fi Al-Gharb (thanks for the colleague who does not want to be identified for alerting me to this book). It was published first in New York City in 1895. It may be the first book I know in Arabic of a biographical account by an Arab in the US. The [...]

Posted on May 1, 2008 by As'ad

“Hollywood’s depiction of Arabs has eased the path for U.S. administration policy, he argues. Decades of portraying Arabs and Muslims as the enemy “made it that much easier for us to go into Iraq”, he said. “There were very few people protesting.” (thanks Ali)

Posted on May 1, 2008 by As'ad

For those who don’t give a damn: a recording of my talk and discussion at the Arab Secular Network.

Posted on May 1, 2008 by As'ad

““tunnel of truth.””

Posted on May 1, 2008 by As'ad

One of the sleaziest, unprincipled, and most corrupt Palestinian leader is Bassam Abu Sharif. This is a man who was hated in every organization that he joined. He was detested in the PFLP, and then he was detested in the ranks of the Fath movement when he became one of 10,000 advisers of Yaser Arafat. [...]

Posted on May 1, 2008 by As'ad

…Unto the Nations. “Whenever I try to mouth these words, a remembered smell fills my nostrils. It is the smell of shit. Across the occupied West Bank, raw untreated sewage is pumped every day out of the Jewish settlements, along large metal pipes, straight onto Palestinian land. From there, it can enter the groundwater and [...]

Posted on May 1, 2008 by As'ad

“Amid this political atmosphere, dockworkers of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have decided to stop work for eight hours in all U.S. West Coast ports on May 1, International Workers’ Day, to call for an end to the war.”

Posted on May 1, 2008 by As'ad

“KBR employees working in Iraq stole weapons, artwork and even gold to make spurs for cowboy boots, two former company workers told Senate Democrats on Monday. Appearing before a Democrats-only panel looking into allegations of contracting abuses in Iraq, the witnesses accused their former co-workers of widespread improper activity.” (thanks May)

Posted on May 1, 2008 by As'ad