Archive for May 12, 2012
developments in Jordan
“Dalia sent me this: ”so al manar was showing clips of enormous protests in jordan (this friday’s slogan is “don’t you understand?” ألا تفهمون؟, ) not just against wadi ‘araba, tarawneh, the entity’s embassy, but import…
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad
The new flag of Bahrain
(thanks Mirvat)
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad
From a Palestinian political prisoner to his daughter
Mohammad sent me this: “hope all is well with you as always. I was hoping you’d post this letter, written by Thaer Halahle, to his daughter Lamar. It was just published this morning: As you probably know, Halahle is now on his 75th day of hunger s…
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad
Gibran’s fibs
Any specialist about Jubran, and readers of the biography by his friend Mikha’in Nu`ayman know that Gibran (or Jubran) was given to wild exaggerations and fabrications about his past and about people he has met. ”Gibran was a painter as…
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad
On Gibran (Jubran Khalil Jubran as we call him in Arabic)
“”He was looked down upon as, frankly, a ‘bubblehead’ by Western academics, because he appealed to the masses. I think he has been misunderstood in the West. He is certainly not a bubblehead, in fact his writings in Arabic are in a very sophisticated s…
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad
Lebanese should read this to know the real standing of their beloved Gibran in the West
“Despite the immense popularity of his writing, or perhaps because of it, The Prophet was panned by many critics in the West who thought it simplistic, naive and lacking in substance. ”In the West, he was not added to the canon of English literat…
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad
Critique of Syrian National Council: from Jadaliyya
Comrade Bassam wants me to put a link to a word of that long interview daily, and I am obliging under duress. Here is yet another section of the interview: ”The Deliberated Istanbul Project (Themes and Paraphrased Segments from the Interview…
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad
"Mild" slavery
“According to the exhibit, Smalls’s enslavement was “mild.”"
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad
It seems that US and Israel have settled on Asad
“Obama thinks parts of the Syrian opposition would be worse than Assad — and he worries that the protracted struggle is empowering precisely these people.”
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad
Imprisoned for calling for a new king
A Jordanian activist is imprisoned for calling for Prince Hamzah to be made King. (thanks Yusuf)
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad
How and when did those "experts" figure this one out?
“But outside experts see growing evidence that fighters from neighboring countries, possibly sent by Al Qaeda in Iraq, are joining the fight in Syria, further complicating efforts by the United Nations and Arab League to uphold a shaky cease-fire….
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad
What about the usurping entity?
Jon sent me this: ”I thought this article might make you chuckle. It certainly did me!I particularly enjoyed the Israeli version of peace…”Whatever follows Assad’s bloodstained regime will be greeted with Israel’s extended hand of peace …&nbs…
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad
Promoting democracy in the Middle East
Crown Prince of Bahrain with John McCain (the well-known supporter of Israel war crimes and “democracy in the Middle East”) and with Joe Literally Biden. And what is pathetic about US media now is that they cite “experts” at the Likudnik Washingt…
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad
"Next Leader of Shiites"
This is such an ignorant article about “leader of Shi`ites” as if there is such an office. And it assumes that any side or state can intervene in a fully spontaneous and popular process where selection is entirely voluntarily. But then agai…
Posted on May 12, 2012 by As'ad