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Watching the news these days has been one disturbing “task”. One man’s peaceful protest is turning into a government’s chance to abuse, torture and kill. I have to admit that I have been trying to not watch certain news reports due to the...
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Want to be a popular Arab leader? Blame the Jews for anything and everything wrong in the world.
Famine in Africa? Blame the Jews.
Drought in Sudan? Blame the...
made popular Apr 4 2011
Arab leaders do not write memoirs. Admittedly the Arab world has had few leaders, and that term is used objectively, in modern history. Morocco’s been under the...
made popular Feb 4 2011
After pressure from the opposition party and the military, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday announced that he would not contest elections for a sixth...
made popular Feb 2 2011
The United States has an obnoxious habit of dictating to people what their concerns should be. As if the entire world should look through Washington’s lens.
Of...
made popular Jan 13 2011
The United States has an obnoxious habit of dictating to people what their concerns should be. As if the entire world should look through Washington’s lens.
Of...
made popular Jan 6 2011
There isn’t a region of the world run by a more miserable and vile bunch than the cursed region for the Arabs. Of course let me distinguish between the Arab...
made popular Dec 10 2010
The roughly quarter million U.S. diplomatic cables made public by Wikileaks has caused great embarrassment to Arab leaders and naturally the Arab media has bowed down....
made popular Nov 29 2010
As Muslims prepare to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, many restaurants across the Arab world boost their meat orders by...
made popular Sep 9 2010
Palestinian women are hoping to improve their lives by using the air waves. A group of women in the West Bank this month launched one of the first all-women’s...
made popular Jun 25 2010
A little more than a century ago, Arabs in the Middle East cooperate with the Great Britain and its imperial forces to overthrow the Ottoman Empire from the region and...
made popular May 31 2010
Americans have two misconceptions of al Jazeera: Either they dismiss it as a fanatical, anti-American channel which exists to promote Bin Ladin or they believe it is...
made popular May 29 2010
There many not be another nation more steeped in grotesque and delusional grandeur than Lebanon. This is a country which is home to a nationalist trend which truly...
made popular May 29 2010
Suicides in the Kingdom of Jordan have been increasing at an alarming rate. In the past three years alone, it has nearly doubled and the last two years have seen an 87%...
made popular May 27 2010
My favorite blog is the Angry Arab News Service and, as often, the author recently made an astute and enlightened observation:
I also want to mention a waitress named...
made popular May 10 2010
Source: Charles Sprague Pearce (American, 1851–1914): The Arab Jeweler | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | New York - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Arabs are...
made popular May 10 2010
Poetry is the literary style of the Arabs. Thus the Arab people are almost embedded with an innate sense of rhythm. But you do not have to read Arab poetry to...
made popular May 7 2010
France’s arrogant President Nicholas Sarkozy is hawkish on Iran. He is pressuring President Obama to forgo diplomacy and press for UNSC sanctions against the...
made popular May 5 2010
The Amman-based Arab Bank recently made a decision that amounts to, for all intents and purposes, to complicity and active support for the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of...
made popular May 3 2010
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Egypt’s cultural significance in the Arab world cannot be underestimated.
Just consider this fact first: every Arab nation has its own colloquial dialect, but...
made popular Apr 27 2010
Tunisia’s next president?
Such is the sad state of Arab politics that even republics now have hereditary rule. Decades ago, these then new republican governments...
made popular Apr 23 2010
I often write about the abysmal human rights record in Tunisia and the awful ruling elite, but the nation is not defined by them. Instead it is defined by the warm and...
made popular Apr 22 2010
Source: Los Angeles Times.
This is the new depravity of the Egyptian dictatorship in the name of the aging Hosni Mubarak: calls for death against opposition figures by...
made popular Apr 21 2010
Fourteen centuries ago Islam spoke to the woman’s sensuality and the desire for pleasure in great intimacy. A Prophet likened foreplay to a messenger: “Let...
made popular Apr 19 2010
The Most Corrupt
Some corrupt Arabs regime have cheered the recent Israeli Mossad assassination of a mid-level Hamas official in Dubai. The assassination was so...
made popular Feb 26 2010
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Egyptian tyrant Hosni Mubarak has been in power for nearly three decades and has aspirations for his son Jamal Mubarak - head of policy the ruling party National...
made popular Feb 20 2010
Shocker! Only few weeks ago Obama and his administration issued a note for Chinese counterpart saying that China should stop censorships as its against the democracy...
made popular Feb 6 2010
Solange Gemayel, the widow of the late Lebanese Nazi and puppet of Arial Sharon Bashir Gemayel, has fallen on hard time. In the 1980s, she saw herself as the first lady...
made popular Feb 2 2010
It is greatly unfortunate, but self-inflicted. The tiny nation of Lebanon was once a major banking center (a fact it acquired after the Palestinians were rooted from...
made popular Feb 2 2010
The 1979 Islamic Revolution did not happen over night. It was months of protest - and hundreds of dissidents crushed by the Shah. Using history as a framework, the...
made popular Jan 30 2010
I am not a T.V. person; I would rather listen to the radio while doing other more productive (or not so productive) things. I however try to stay connected with what...
made popular Jan 27 2010
The doyen of American Islamic experts - retired historian Bernard Lewis - often likes to start his lectures to American audiences with a joke. And in his writings,...
made popular Jan 21 2010
I have been a strong critic of Obama and his approach to the Arab world. The president is quality of severe double-standards and hypocrisy in his dealings between...
made popular Jan 18 2010
The origin of Hummus is not precisely known. It is Levantine and an centuries-old Arab delicacy probably originating in modern-day Lebanon.
A simple dish it is...
made popular Jan 11 2010
Hundreds of people from around the world have gathered on the Egyptian side of the Gaza border. They intended to cross over and deliver aid to the besieged Palestinians...
made popular Dec 30 2009
A new joint report by the United Nations Development Programme and the Arab League - issued ahead of the September 2010 international gathering to mark the tenth...
made popular Dec 22 2009
The sexual harassment of women in the streets, schools and work places of the Arab world is driving them to cover up and confine themselves to their homes, said...
made popular Dec 16 2009
The use of the term “Arab Street” is one of the most racist Western cliches directed toward Arabs. First, there is still a stubborn reluctance in the...
made popular Dec 16 2009
Despite the image here in America, Land of the Arab world as uncouth and uncultured, the Arabs have a rich cinematic history. Arabs have been making movies and hundreds...
made popular Dec 12 2009
The Arab states are responsible for less than 5 percent of the world’s total carbon emissions, but according to the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED),...
made popular Dec 12 2009
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