Home
RSS
Very few Arabs or thoughtful Westerns view the Palestinians as one-dimensional resistance fighters or, worse, terrorists. The Palestinians are known for their poetry - the late Mahmoud Darwish was the most well-regarded Arab poet in his life - and Elie...
Related Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
11
Star It 
(0)
President Obama said yesterday he is still several weeks away from adopting a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
What’s taking so long? Obama wants his...
made popular 14 hr. ago
The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind...
made popular 14 hr. ago
Two Chicago men accused of developing what federal prosecutors call a blueprint for a terrorist assault on a Danish newspaper also are being investigated for possible...
made popular 15 hr. ago
President Obama’s diplomatic outreach to Iran deserves some award for its schizophrenic nature. Obama claims he wants to reach out his hand to an uncleanched...
made popular 18 hr. ago
President Obama campaigned on “Change” in Washington that would reject the cynicism, partisanship and the political gamesmanship that have long dominated...
made popular 19 hr. ago
The question was a plausible one Monday when it was announced that the Pontiac Silverdome — once home to the NFL’s Detroit Lions — was sold for $583,000, or about...
made popular Nov 19 2009
In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the...
made popular Nov 19 2009
The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning parents across the state to be aware of efforts by Mexican cartels and transnational gangs to recruit Texas youth in...
made popular Nov 19 2009
President Obama has admitted for the first time that the deadline he set two days into his Administration for closing the Guantanamo Bay detainee camp in Cuba will be...
made popular Nov 19 2009
Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year, and with it comes the idiotic fringe-media meme that’s come to be known as the “War On...
made popular Nov 19 2009
Israel: Busy Ethnic Cleansing Muslims and Christians from Holy Jerusalem
Here’s the list that Obama administration calls a success in the Middle East
- Israel...
made popular Nov 19 2009
Another hateful asshole at Fox
Here’s a recent exchange between Fox News host Shepard Smith and Texas Republican Senator (and Gubernatorial candidate) Kay Bailey...
made popular Nov 19 2009
The horrific things some people do to their children is beyond belief. Parents who offer their kids up as suicide bombers, a spouse who kills their own child, or the...
made popular Nov 19 2009
The Alaska hockey-mom and conservative starlet Sarah Palin is making a comeback. Previously resigned to publishing her political opinions via the reputable Washington...
made popular Nov 19 2009
Since time immemorial birth control has been a preserve for women, and for decades birth control pills have been a women only affair but as it seems even men could also...
made popular Nov 19 2009
Humanity needs a jolt to come out of the box we have locked ourselves in for generations. The rot has become so severe that mere paradigm shift is not enough to rescue...
made popular Nov 19 2009
I am to be specific: Then and Now.
Any comments? Thank you in advance for sharing an American history in making.
made popular Nov 19 2009
Investigators in the city raided offices for some of the nation’s largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a corruption probe into a powerful union that has long...
made popular Nov 18 2009
After turning down Vogue during the presidential campaign for “fear of looking too feminine,” Hillary Clinton has finally granted Vogue the interview they...
made popular Nov 18 2009
A paparazzo testified Tuesday that an Ohio police chief told him he had access to ultrasound photographs belonging to the woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica...
made popular Nov 18 2009
All Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
Calligraphy is the art of the Arabs. That is not an accident of history, but a direct consequence of the arrival of Islam. Pagan Arabs had long drawn images of...
made popular Aug 22 2009
Thanks to the wisdom of the late Saudi Mufti Bin Baz, cinemas are banned is this awfully repressive Kingdom.
Photo Credit: www.benettontalk.com
The Wahhabi clerics...
made popular Jul 21 2009
Mahmoud Darwish was born in northern Palestine, in what is today referred to some by “Israel.” In 1948, with the al-Nakba [The Catastrophe] resulting from...
made popular Jul 16 2009
“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed,” said William Blake. But the moral guardians of daytime TV take a different view. The Channel 4...
made popular Jul 13 2009
Van Gogh and Gauguin forged a deep friendship
during the two years they lived and painted, sharing a place in Arles, in the south of France.
The two had built the...
made popular May 20 2009
Studio3 presents “Stillness Speaks” an exhibition of Buddha Paintings
by Umakant Tawde at Jehangir Art Gallery.2nd AC Hall from 3rd June...
made popular May 14 2009
London is hosting a Palestinian film festival for its tenth year. Not an Arab film festival, but a Palestinian one. Chicago and Houston also hold their annual...
made popular May 2 2009
Sussane Wenger, painter, sculpture and artist of Austrian origin, but who lived almost all her adult life in Osogbo, Nigeria has died in Osogbo on January 12, 2009 at...
made popular Jan 29 2009
Lahore is Pakistan’s leading center of art and culture. Recently, on January 09 2009, two theaters in Lahore were targeted by what are thought to be fundamentalist...
made popular Jan 12 2009
The dancing girls of Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan, are on strike in protest against the tide of Talibanisation that is threatening to destroy an art form...
made popular Dec 12 2008
I was in a haze staring at my monitor when I had this phantom scenario in my head one morning, where me and a couple of friends were in a round table chatting and...
made popular Oct 16 2008
L’atelier WM is a a group of young artists founded in Paris in 2008. They have a line of colorful candles, both in looks and attitude. Hands making gestures cast...
made popular Oct 8 2008
With the end of the Summer Salzburg Festival, I think back to the founders of such an event. Two of the prime movers were Jews: the magnificent theater director Max...
made popular Sep 15 2008
This is probably one of the most famous squares in Italy and in the world: St Mark’s Square, one of the symbols of Venice. However, the 900-year-old piazza, which...
made popular Sep 1 2008
The crucified frog will be staying where it is. A statue representing a frog on a cross like Jesus Christ, with eyes and tongue lolling out, will remain displayed in...
made popular Aug 31 2008
In yesterday’s Times Of India the “Speaking Tree” section espouses the merits of knitting . In a US church they have something called the...
made popular Aug 29 2008
By Vincent Van Ross
Last year there were indications of the beginning of a great boom in the Indian art market—or, so it seemed. It soared like the stock market. ...
made popular Aug 6 2008
“The Golan Heights is a plateau on the border of Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. The Syrians attacked the Golan with 1,500 tanks and 1,000 artillery pieces.
made popular Aug 5 2008
Hannes Broecke, a German artist, figured out how to create works of art that people could not only consume with their eyes, but also with their mouths!
made popular Jul 28 2008
Related Tags
cool design Education Entertainment Environment Europe furniture Germany Guest Blogger India Lifestyle New York North America photography Pictorial Technology Travel United States Video Weird
Images
Tokyo:
A visitor walks over an illusionary art work of an alligator painted on the floor at the Trick Art Museum at the foot of Mount Takao on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, May 3, 2009.
