Archive for August 28, 2010
US Congress
I am certain that the US Congress would cover up and cover any war crime that Israel may take, no matter how massive or how heinous.
Posted on August 28, 2010 by As'ad
Read this
First, read the title that the sleazy Saudi website has given to my today’s article in Al-Akhbar, and read the comment under it. (thanks Zainab)
Posted on August 28, 2010 by As'ad
If this was in a Muslim country, it would have been a front page story in US newspapers
“A singer who performed in front of a “mixed audience†of men and women was lashed 39 times to make him “repent,†after a ruling by a self-described rabbinic court on Wednesday. Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, founder of the Shofar organization a…
Posted on August 28, 2010 by As'ad
Nazir Rashid
I don’t understand the controversy over the book by Nazir Rashid (former head of Jordanian intelligence). As is known, the book was banned by the Jordanian government shortly after its release. I brought a copy from Lebanon and found the bo…
Posted on August 28, 2010 by As'ad
Kamal Salibi on Israel
In his interesting (and angry) interview in the last issue of the journal, Al-Mustaqbal Al-`Arabi, Kamal Salibi said this of Israel: ”Israel: its situation has been exposed. A racist shop (dukkan) that will be closed sooner or later, provid…
Posted on August 28, 2010 by As'ad
Arab public attitudes toward Arab nationalism
In the last issue (August, 2010) of the journal, Al-Mustaqbal Al-`Arabi, there is an important study of Arab public attitudes towards Arab identity. `Ali As`ad Watfah, a professor of sociology at Kuwait university, finds evidence of increa…
Posted on August 28, 2010 by As'ad
I am jealous: we need that in the Arab world
“Advertising agency Muckmouth, Auckland, New Zealand created a blasphemous campaign for Eshe Streatwear. The campaign includes four posters posted all over the streets of Auckland, branded skateboards and t-shirts. Advertising is known to brea…
Posted on August 28, 2010 by As'ad
Oman ban
“Oman’s Telecom Regulation Authority (TRA) has made a call for Public Consultation/Opinion on a regulation to be made a law that will prohibit the use of Virtual Private Networks for individuals in Oman.The proposed law imposes a fine of 500 Omani …
Posted on August 28, 2010 by As'ad
who needs the training? I feel that the Jordanian employers are the ones who need training and orientation
““At the moment we are considering an option to allocate an embassy official to receive workers at the airport and escort them to the embassy’s premises where they would take a short course on Jordanian culture and how to do their jobs properly,…
Posted on August 28, 2010 by As'ad
who is selling whom?
“Egyptian daily “Al Shaab” reports that the Egyptian government is seeking to buy back 1.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas sold to Israel as part of the deal signed in 2005, under US pressure, and whose price per cubic meter was set at a level t…
Posted on August 28, 2010 by As'ad
Obama’s Undeclared War in Yemen
“A missile strike on December 17 in Yemen last year that killed 41 people including 21 children and 14 women was most likely the result of a US cruise missile strike — an opening shot in a US military campaign that began without notice and has nev…
Posted on August 28, 2010 by As'ad
Mahmud Shurayh versus Fathi Al-Biss
There is no author that successfully devastated and mocked another author, and with few words, like Mahmud Shurayh in his booklet, The Impairment of Memory. He intends the book to responds to the book by Fathi Al-Biss in which he recounts his exp…
Posted on August 28, 2010 by As'ad
Sectarianism of An-Nahar (the dying paper)
I wrote this passage on my FB regarding this lousy article from An-Nahar: Let me explain: I believe that people who want to fast should fast, and those who want to drink should drink. I don’t think that non-religious people should be sensitive to…
Posted on August 28, 2010 by As'ad