Archive for March 5, 2009

Angry Arab in Manchester

I spoke yesterday here in Manchester and I speak today at SOAS. The highlight of trip has been yesterday when (before my talk) I visited the occupied building on campus. I gave a brief talk to the students who continue to occupy the building and I told them that their activities have been covered in [...]

Posted on March 5, 2009 by As'ad

the White Man at AUB:

An AUB professor* (who does not want to be identified) shared with me some AUB-network discussion about censorship in Lebanon. One professor of English, Sean Lee, is apparently disturbed not because of the censorship that affects the Lebanese (regarding religious matters and regarding criticisms of Arab governments) but his beef (or tofu) is in the [...]

Posted on March 5, 2009 by As'ad

Mahmoud Karzai

“The older brother of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, Mahmoud Karzai has major interests in the country’s only cement factory, its dominant bank, its most ambitious real estate development, its only Toyota distributorship and four coal mines. He and a business partner run Afghanistan’s national Chamber of Commerce — which has far more clout than [...]

Posted on March 5, 2009 by As'ad

Marx back

“Sales of Marx’s Capital are at an all-time high, and this can’t just be due to the current rage against characters such as Fred Goodwin and his merry bonus. It must also be because Marx fathomed that under capitalism, boom and slump would remain a perpetual cycle, as opposed to those such as Gordon Brown, [...]

Posted on March 5, 2009 by As'ad

Kit Kat

One thing I like about the UK: I feel that they have much more appreciation for the Kit Kat than they do in the US. For some reason, the Kit Kat is not big in the US as it is in other parts in the world. And in the UK: they experiment with different flavors [...]

Posted on March 5, 2009 by As'ad

Debate

I am debating the Israeli consult general in SF on April 1st at the University of San Francisco. Let me predict for you that he will change his mind and pull out of the debate.

Posted on March 5, 2009 by As'ad

Funny indeed: Totten begs for some niceness toward him

Totten begs his readers to write nice comments about him on NowHariri website. I almost felt sorry for him before I remembered that he is a Zionist supporter of every Israeli war, occupation, and massacre. “The comments there are rude and obnoxious because the deranged “Angry Arab” blog linked to the interview and sent his [...]

Posted on March 5, 2009 by As'ad