Archive for April 21, 2010
Lebanese pimps in the news again: Lebanon (esp An-Nahar) could no more proudt be
“”Le 13 avril, lors de la descente de police dans cet établissement, la Mondaine a découvert «18 victimes prostituées». Les deux patrons-gérants, deux frères d’origine libanaise, Georges et Elie F., âgés de 26 et 23 ans, ont été mis en exa…
Posted on April 21, 2010 by As'ad
fresh fish no more
“A Gulf Arab airline ditched a massive cargo of fresh fish and the desert region’s supermarkets are fretting over fruit and vegetable imports trapped in a backlog of flights created by Europe’s ash cloud.”
Posted on April 21, 2010 by As'ad
The Daily Star: the voice of the Arab masses. Oh, yeah
“Today Mr. Young, the son of an American father and a Lebanese mother, edits the opinion pages of the Daily Star, Beirut’s English- language daily. It is a background—and a perch—that allows him to write with authority on a subject typified by anti…
Posted on April 21, 2010 by As'ad
Disgrace unto the nations
“Two Palestinian brothers with Israeli citizenship have won 8,000 US dollars in damages from Israel’s national carrier, El Al, after a court found that their treatment by the company’s security staff at a New York airport had been “abusive and unne…
Posted on April 21, 2010 by As'ad
what happens in academia
“The two students arrived late to a conference panel, after which Farred walked over and thanked them for making it out to the conference. According to one of the two students present, Farred then lowered his voice and said, “When you both walked in,…
Posted on April 21, 2010 by As'ad
Killing for you, Jamal Mubarak
“Egyptian security sources reported Tuesday that a 31-year-old Eritrean man was killed by Egyptian Border Police fire while trying to infiltrate into Israel.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on April 21, 2010 by As'ad
mistreatment of maids in the Middle East
“An appeals court has reduced a jail term to seven years of a Kuwaiti woman who left her Asian maid suffer for 10 hours until she died after pushing her into a bathtub, a newspaper reported Tuesday.” She will be out in less than a year. (thanks Marcia)
Posted on April 21, 2010 by As'ad
censoring google
“Google has hit out at state attempts to clamp down on the internet by revealing governments’ requests to remove data from the web and get information about users.Tonight it released a web page with a map showing country by country where it has had gov…
Posted on April 21, 2010 by As'ad