Archive for April 24, 2009
The Dangerous Man
My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: “The Dangerous Man: When Lebanese History Changed (forever)”
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad
World Leaders…
On facebook. (thanks Amer)
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad
Foreign maids in Lebanon
Rape of an Ethiopian maid in Lebanon.
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad
Shiny
“Did Libya’s National Security Advisor, Mutassim Qaddafi, son of Muammar Qaddafi, of course, really wear a shiny brown suit to the State Dept. to meet with Secretary Clinton?” (thanks Maryam)
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad
Zionist deeds
“Testimony: Settlers assault pregnant woman with sticks and stones, April ’09″
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad
This is Zionism
“Israeli soldiers attacked the teachers and children returning from a school trip in the West Bank town of Beit Ummar on Thursday afternoon. Upon returning from a trip to Ramallah and Jericho, Israeli soldiers halted the busses at the entrance to t…
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad
87,215 Iraqis
“At least 87,215 Iraqis have been killed in violence since 2005, according to a previously undisclosed Iraqi government tally obtained by the Associated Press.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad
All the news that fit…the ideology of AIPAC
“A Pakistani immigrant described by prosecutors as “Hezbollah’s man in New York City” was sentenced Thursday to nearly six years in prison for airing the militant group’s television station.”
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad
Dubai miracle
“The city-state, however, is still straining under a short-term debt load. Dubai’s real-estate market has dropped, and prospects are dim this year for tourism, transportation and financial sectors. That means persuading investors to lend more, or se…
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad
Nakbah Denial
“The Israeli museum Yad Vashem has fired an employee who compared the trauma of Jewish Holocaust survivors to that of Palestinians who were expelled in 1948 from their land in what is now Israel, the newspaper Haaretz reported on Thursday. Jerusale…
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad
When the criminals investigate themselves
“Maj. Gen. Dan Harel, the Israeli military’s deputy chief of staff, told reporters on Wednesday that the army “discovered a small number of mistakes, not many, among the dozens of incidents we investigated, and we have already examined them and lea…
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad
From the foreign editors of the New York Times
“A reference to the reality television program in relation to an Islamic school may come as a surprise.” Surprise? Huge surprise. In fact, as I was reading that I was shocked. Very shocked. I mean, when you think of Islamic schools you think of bom…
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad
Sami Sharaf’s memoirs
I read the second volume (840 pages long) of Sami Sharaf’s memoirs. It is probably one of the best portraits of Nasser in any language and it has the best description of the Nasserist regime. The memoirs needed better editing and organizations: a few…
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad
The Economist
It is undoubtedly the best magazine there is. How rich: its political biases and obsessions with governments that Western governments don’t like notwithstanding. I met somebody from Newsweek in New York and I of course began to rave about The Economis…
Posted on April 24, 2009 by As'ad