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Posts Tagged ‘Arabs World’
November 15th, 2015 - 8:47 am § in America
Comic books of childhood under Arab dictators
© Riad Sattouf, Allary Editions The much-awaited second volume of “The Arab of the Future” by Riad Sattouf, a French cartoonist of Syrian origin, hit the newsstands across France last June and is now coming to the US. (excerpted from FRANCE 24) Little Riad, his blond curls “bl[...]
September 28th, 2015 - 10:01 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
The Internet Economy Comes to ….. Beirut?
HUFF POST BLOG By Alexandra Talty Recently called “the Silicon Valley of the Middle East” by CNN, and “the Middle East’s Tech Hub” by TechCrunch, Beirut’s tech scene is the darling of international media of late. (Though Techonomy first wrote about it over two yea[...]
September 16th, 2015 - 9:56 am § in Misc.
Saudi Arabia: 100,000 air conditioned tents await … none offered to Syrian Refugees.
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March 25th, 2015 - 6:12 pm § in Saudi Arabia
BREAKING NEWS: The Kingdom Goes to War
Arab forces led by Saudi Arabia have gone to war against Iran’s proxies in Yemen. The air forces bombed the Houthi fighters who have taken control of Yemen’s capital and advanced on the southern city of Aden where the country’s president has taken refuge’ Saudi Ambass[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Kayla Mueller Died Following Rachel Corrie!
Kayla, the American woman killed while a hostage of ISIS, was not the naïve volunteer the media have portrayed. If this post, full of hatred for the now dead American girl, is based on fact, she was herself a supporter of Hamas. Although the post is hateful, it may be correct. Apparently Kay[...]
January 11th, 2015 - 1:32 am § in Uncategorized
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Being an atheist in Palestine
From the Daily Beast : “I am an atheist. I believe in human rights. I have the right to say these things.” Waleed Al Husseini spent 10 months in Palestinian prison for being an atheist blogger. … I used to run a blog in Arabic called “Nour Alakl” and ran a satirical Facebook [...]
Keeping America safe from foreign poets
Washington Post: “Poetry can be dangerous,” Rumi said, and U.S. Homeland Security isn’t taking any chances. The Jordanian-British poet Amjad Nasser had been invited to speak at New York University this fall, but on Sept. 27, he was questioned for two hours at London’s Heathrow airport and t[...]
Is Israel/Palestine Peace Possible?
Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times Israel Quietly Tends to Syria’s Wounded By ISABEL KERSHNER 8:33 PM ET As the civil war in Syria rages, scores of casualties have been discreetly spirited across the hostile frontier for lifesaving treatment in Israel, an enemy country.[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: An AVE CHALLENGE
This hospital ship is arriving from what country? a. Iran b. China c. India d. Brazil e. Israel[...]