Archive for June 3, 2012
Mubarak’s watch
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
Is it Hula or Huli?
Houssam sent me this: ”As a son of a military officer, I lived in Hama, Damascus, Lattakia and Homs, thanks to Hafiz Assd’s policy of moving officers around so they do not establish deep influence in any particular area of the country. Beca…
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
Tomorrow the Independent and Guardian will hail her as a feminist and reformer
“A Saudi princess was caught trying to leave the Shangri-La hotel in Paris without settling a six million euro ($7.4 million) bill for her rooms, police said Saturday, confirming a report in the daily Le Parisien. Maha al-Sudani, the former wife …
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
They are not only racist: but they are supremely dumb
“‘Do you feel more Arab or more American?’: Two women’s story of being detained and interrogated at Ben Gurion”. (thanks Najwa)
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
the "utlra-lousy" Hariri movement
Basim sent me this: ”The Future Movement parliamentary bloc handed a memo Friday to U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly documenting breaches of national sovereignty by the Syrian army. According to the bloc’s press release, A…
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
Israeli minister: "Israel belongs to the white man"
“Meanwhile on Sunday, Israeli daily Maariv published an interview with Interior Minister Eli Yishai, in which he stated that most of the ”Muslims that arrive here do not even believe that this country belongs to us, to the white man.” &n…
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
US ambassador in Cairo snubbed
An Egyptian pilot takes off refusing to wait for the late US ambassador in Egypt. (thanks Joseph)
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
Israel mourns Mubarak–still
Jamal sent me this (he translated an article from an Egyptian newspaper): ”Ben Eliezer: I was hoping for more mercy for a person who dedicated his life to serving the Egyptian people.أعرب وزير الدفاع الإسرائيلي الساب
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
EI
Support Palestine: support Electronic Intifada.
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
Not in the Western press
“‘Don’t wait until we’re in body bags’: Two Palestinian hunger strikers’ “final distress call”. (thanks Electronic Ali)
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
Joumana Haddad and non-suspecting Western journalists
Typically, another ignorant Western article about a fraud from Lebanon, known as Joumana Haddad. Haddad is not even acknowledged as a feminist by Lebanese feminists but Western reporters (who can’t read Arabic and judge) insist that she is a symb…
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
"I am a brave Arab woman. Look at me. Look at me, please. I am not ignorant and weak like other Arab women. Look at me"
“Academics like the Lebanese-American professor As’ad AbuKhalil, who blogs as Angry Arab, accuses her of feeding a Western Orientalist perception of Arab society and has branded the magazine “soft porn” for oil princes.”
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
Satellite images on Syria
Jon sent me this: ”In my field (neuropsychology) there is a well known bias in publishing papers. If you haven’t really found much (or want to make a load of rubbish up), just stick a picture of a brain scan in your results and it will …
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
Prince Nayif dying
Deputy Minister of Interior in Saudi Arabia today said that Prince Nayif is in good health. Let me translate: the man is dying and the shovels are on the ready. Stay tuned.
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
This is considered Arab (pro-Wahhabi) liberalism–kid you not
“If we compare this to the situation in our region following the so-called Arab Spring, we will see that the most stable states are monarchies or emirates, where there is no injustice, oppression or violations, rather the Arab monarchies are providing …
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
The dumbest article that you will read on Syria, thus far
This is how the ignorant US media cover foreign stories. 1) they operate on the notion that there are good guys and bad guys: and the distinction is based not on humanitarian or even ideological standards but on the political standards of the gov…
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
racism against people in the Gulf
The rhetoric of the Syrian media and of the media of its supporters in Lebanon, including Hizbullah’s media, are officially racist against people in the Gulf region. They are even referred to as “`irban”, a pejorative term for Bedouins.
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
Salamah Kilah
I never really read Salamah Kilah but the man has been brave and admirable in opposing the Syrian regime from Syria and in taking the cause of the Syrian people as his own although he is Palestinian. For that, he was tortured and expelled from Sy…
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
Sectarian and subservient opposition
There are two examples in which you ascertain the sectarianism and the political subservience of the exile Syrian opposition. 1) They are obsessed with the pro-regime stance of Hizbullah and yet they never ever mention the support for the Syrian …
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad
Hitting the correspondent of Syrian regime TV with a shoe
And I don’t have to tell you about the notion of the shoe in Arab culture. Do you know that the caliph Al-Hakim Bi Amr Allah once killed one of his lieutenants because he entered Cairo with his foot on his camel’s neck where the bottom of the shoe…
Posted on June 3, 2012 by As'ad