Archive for April 5, 2009

The Debate on Youtube

Somebody posted a video of the debate (I am not sure that this is the official university version) on Youtube. (thanks Shandy)

Posted by As'ad at 6:15 PM 04/5/09

Runaway slaves

Ads for foreign African and Asian maids who fled the homes of their employers in Lebanon.

Posted by As'ad at 10:39 AM 04/5/09

Tabbulah and Hummus Ship

“Lebanon inaugurated on Friday a scientific ship that will be dedicated to studying flora, fauna and seismic activity off the Mediterranean coast and said to be the first such project in the region.” (thanks Fatima)

Posted by As'ad at 10:38 AM 04/5/09

Zionist propaganda

“The Palestine Arabs enjoyed the support of the vast hinterland of Arab states, who, though in niggardly fashion, sent arms, money and, between December 1947 and February 1948, a 4,000-strong force of relatively well-equipped volunteers, most of them Syrians and Iraqis, known as the Arab Liberation Army (ALA). The ALA had [...]

Posted by As'ad at 10:32 AM 04/5/09

Fruits of Bush Doctrine

“The bodies of two gay men have been found in Baghdad’s Shiite slum of Sadr City after a leading cleric repeatedly condemned homosexuality, an Iraqi police official said Saturday.”

Posted by As'ad at 10:31 AM 04/5/09

Your friend and idol, Karzai

“Today, the UK Independent reports that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has signed the new Shia [they mean Shari`ah] Family Law, which women’s groups believe will essentially legalize rape. Specifically, the measure “negates the need for sexual consent between married couples, tacitly approves child marriage and restricts a woman’s right to [...]

Posted by As'ad at 10:29 AM 04/5/09

Censorship in Syria

Ba`thist rules. (thanks Raed)

Posted by As'ad at 10:26 AM 04/5/09

The Rafiq Hariri of Italy

Berlusconi explains communism: “”Read The Black Book of Communism and you will discover that in the China of Mao, they did not eat children, but had them boiled to fertilise the fields.” (thanks Maryam)

Posted by As'ad at 10:23 AM 04/5/09

Liberated by American occupation

“Italian police have found more than 100 immigrants, including 24 Afghan children, living in the sewer system beneath railway stations in Rome.” (thanks Hicham)

Posted by As'ad at 10:17 AM 04/5/09

Obama crap

“US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said that the new US administration wants to rejoin the sometimes troubled UN Human Rights Council, to – among other things – “battle the anti-Israel crap.”” (thanks Olivia)

Posted by As'ad at 10:16 AM 04/5/09

Counting

“A Palestinian teenager was seriously injured by a rubber-coated bullet fired by Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya on Saturday.”

Posted by As'ad at 10:14 AM 04/5/09

Conspiracy? What damn conspiracy?

Lebanese (Phalange) Minister, Eli Maruni, visits Kurdistan to meet Phalangists immigrants there? But what are they doing there?

Posted by As'ad at 10:10 AM 04/5/09

I owe my readers some good news once in a while

“Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, which supports hospitals and other institutions here, said it lost $90 million that it had invested with Mr. Madoff. The group is going ahead with a $300 million project to build a tower at the main Ein Kerem hospital campus near Jerusalem. But because of [...]

Posted by As'ad at 10:07 AM 04/5/09

My Uncle, the Executioner

Prince Turki writes a tribute to his uncle Prince Nayif.

Posted by As'ad at 10:06 AM 04/5/09

Prince Sultan’s health Saga

This just in. A Saudi newspaper (owned by his son, Khalid), reports that Prince Sultan leaves his New York hospital in “good health.” In Saudi lingo, it means that Prince Sultan’s body is being washed as we speak to prepare it for burial.

Posted by As'ad at 10:04 AM 04/5/09