Archive for October 15, 2008
“Liberated”…in Seattle. “Five visiting Afghan scholars have been reported missing by the University of Washington after failing to show up to scheduled training sessions at the university over the past week.” (thanks Amer)
Posted on October 15, 2008 by As'ad
Christopher Davidson’s Dubai: the Vulnerability of Success. This is long over due: there was a gap in the literature about Dubai and its star appeal in the region, and beyond. I don’t know who Davidson is but he certainly knows the terrain better than anybody, although I don’t think that his command of Arabic is [...]
Posted on October 15, 2008 by As'ad
Hizbullah-for-the-House of Saud: the man to the right is Hasan Fadlallah (a Hizbullah MP). He is helping to celebrate the National House of Saud Day. (thanks F.)
Posted on October 15, 2008 by As'ad
Electronic Ali asked me to post this with his name:“As NPR’s correspondent in Palestine for years, Gradstein has a long,well-documented history of pro-Israel fanaticism. I documented this indozens of letters to NPR over several years many of which can be found here: NPR never did anything, but what is even worse is that several years [...]
Posted on October 15, 2008 by As'ad
“JAMES BAMFORD: Yeah. There’s two major—or not major, they’re small companies, but they service the two major telecom companies. This company, Narus, which was founded in Israel and has large Israel connections, does the—basically the tapping of the communications on AT&T. And Verizon chose another company, ironically also founded in Israel and largely controlled by [...]
Posted on October 15, 2008 by As'ad
Linda Gradstein went to graduate school with my first ex-wife, and Kathy remembers her as a Zionist fanatic. Look how she provides justification for Zionist settlers’s violence against Palestinians–read the whole article: “But he said the violence was justified by the Israeli army’s failure to protect the lives and property of West Bank settlers. Such [...]
Posted on October 15, 2008 by As'ad
I nominate Husni Mubarak for Zionist-of-the-year award: “Egyptian security forces on Tuesday blew up 10 tunnels used by smugglers to slip contraband into Hamas-ruled Gaza, an Egyptian security official said.”
Posted on October 15, 2008 by As'ad
Mysticism in Islam. `Umar Farrukh is a fine Orientalist–in the good sense of the word. He studied under Germany’s best Orientalist, and returned to Lebanon. The sectarian features of the Lebanese university system excluded him from the teaching field so he taught in Al-Maqasid high school. I re-read his classic, At-Tasawwuf fi-l-Islam on the plane. [...]
Posted on October 15, 2008 by As'ad
“The Bush administration sent two secret memos endorsing the use of waterboarding against al-Qaida suspects, according to today’s Washington Post. Officials were prompted by worries within the CIA that the administration might later distance itself from the way suspects were interrogated, the paper reports.”
Posted on October 15, 2008 by As'ad
“Children of domestic workers in Lebanon are an invisible segment of society. Many of the estimated 200,000 migrant domestics living in Lebanon – most of them women from the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia – have no legal status in the country. Their children born in Lebanon thus have no official identity, and no statistics [...]
Posted on October 15, 2008 by As'ad