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Reading some news triggered a very urge to comment-just voluntarily, which is a sort of the next traditionally-free-of-charged sharing of priceless hands-on knowledge/experience by underprivileged to be in paid jobs there.
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Iraq’s Shiites have simultaneously been America’s friend in foe in the post-Saddam era. The United States invaded and occupied (or “liberated”...
made popular May 27 2011
Saudi clerical fanatics, kooks, crazies and buffoons.
Since September 11th, Saudi Arabia has been under American pressure, mostly of the Congressional sort, to amend...
made popular May 24 2011
Saudi Wahhabi religious police who strictly and mercilessly enforce tyranny and religious fanaticism and extremism.
The American press feigns outrage over human...
made popular May 11 2011
Bashas Assad, authoritarian ruler of Syria, could have been forgiven if found in a stupor while the rest of the Middle East was in the midst of a revolution....
made popular Mar 28 2011
I feel that there most be an insightful quote from history to sum up all the awesome events that have rocked the Middle East since December 17th, 2010. It is humbling...
made popular Mar 18 2011
A royal family that gives its name to its subjects clearly expects subservience. But those days in Saudi Arabia may be coming to an end. Despite House of Saud...
made popular Mar 2 2011
As the world watches one of the most important countries in the Middle East and Africa fall into protest, we can only wonder what will result from these tumultuous...
made popular Feb 10 2011
‘I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move’ - Robert Louis Stevenson. Little did he know that...
made popular Feb 3 2011
When the U.S Congress travels to Israel, which is the primary destination for Congressional trips, they often are riveted to hear about Israel’s “tough...
made popular Jan 3 2011
The author has made this point before and will make it again:
The American government has only one method of evaluation human rights violations: is the government in...
made popular Dec 28 2010
When the Wikleaks cables started to trickle many in the Arab world had hopes for great insights into what U.S. diplomats really think about Israel and what is being...
made popular Dec 20 2010
STOCKHOLM — Two days after a bomber killed himself and slightly wounded two people in a commercial district here crowded with Christmas shoppers, investigators...
made popular Dec 14 2010
Qatar defeated both Australia and the United States to host the 2022 World Cup, the first for the Middle East. In another first Russia will host 2018. And Brazil, yet...
made popular Dec 9 2010
The Mideast: what can one say? The region has yet to normalize normality. Relations between states is often adversarial and seen through the prism of zero-sum. Nations...
made popular Dec 8 2010
The Vile and Illiterate Saudi King.
The corrupt oil monarchy of Saudi Arabia is truly a house built on sand. The nation produces nearly next to nothing after its oil...
made popular Dec 6 2010
In continuation of the series of articles I started previously, here comes the third part of “ The Middle East; Dangers and Delusions”.
I always wonder about some...
made popular Nov 29 2010
A Lebanese supporter of slained prime minister Rafiq Hariri drags her maid with her to carry the Lebanese flag.
To state that there is abuse of maids and migrant...
made popular Nov 19 2010
Corrupt Arab regimes are more concerned with the standing in Washington than with their own people. They would rather flatter the Washington elite (as the recent U.A.E....
made popular Nov 18 2010
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In this series of articles, I intend to clear the picture around some of the misconceptions concerning the “Middle East”. For starters, I think it is worth...
made popular Nov 18 2010
Although I am not very fond of watching television, I do enjoy laying in front of it every once in a while and experiencing a life of laziness; with a cup of coffee in...
made popular Nov 17 2010
It is well-known that the Lebanese Army is a joke. This is an army which has never defended the borders of Lebanon. Even in the 1948 war, the Lebanese army never did...
made popular Nov 16 2010
Saudi Arabia recently banned the social network site Facebook due to ‘moral concerns’. This is the standard Saudi pretext for banning anything dissident....
made popular Nov 15 2010
I am here not singling out Israel. I have written about abuse of migrant workers in Arab countries numerous times. In facts, in the dozens of pieces on abuse of workers...
made popular Nov 4 2010
Saudi Arabia’s band of fanatical Wahhabi religious police/bastard oppressors.
I’ve made this point before and I’ll make it again: America’s...
made popular Nov 4 2010
Meet the lousy and stupid Jordanian Queen Rania. The Imbeciles of Jordan meeting with an Israeli war criminal.
Rania is a child of Palestinian refugees from 1948....
made popular Nov 4 2010
Left: Beirut During 1975-1990 Civil War. Right: Same spot. Beirut reborn.
I often write critically of Lebanon. But my criticism is never an attack against the descent...
made popular Oct 30 2010
In 1942, Freya Stark visited Lebanon and wrote in his “Letters from Syria”, ‘The people are all charming to me. They are not really Eastern, or...
made popular Oct 28 2010
Lebanon has long been mired in conflict and setback due to sectarian antagonism in the country. Despite a brief between 1958-1964, successive governments have been in...
made popular Oct 23 2010
American standards of evaluation. I will belabor this point because it so necessitates it!
The American government has only one method of evaluation human rights...
made popular Oct 22 2010
Lebanon, not the United States, may be home to the most expensive elections.
A trend started by Rafiq Hariri, former slain prime minister. Hariri made his billions in...
made popular Oct 22 2010
I often write critically of Lebanon. But my criticism is never an attack against the descent Lebanese. It is an attack against certain strains within Lebanese culture...
made popular Oct 21 2010
It was recently reported that a Lon Angeles based Saudi diplomat is seeking asylum in the United States under the pretext that he faces persecution if he is returned to...
made popular Oct 19 2010
According to reliable sources, in Lebanon, Iranian president M. Ahmadi-Nejad’s movements had been closely monitored with Israeli drone transmitting his speeches...
made popular Oct 18 2010
So Iranian dictator and religious fanatic Ahmadinejad visited Lebanon this week.
Of course, has been traveling to numerous countries since elected in 2005 and then...
made popular Oct 16 2010
I have got no clue how many stars this post might yield but arms-related information from Israel exceeds mere military achievements this nuisance of Islamic region...
made popular Oct 14 2010
American standards of evaluation.
The American government has only one method of evaluation human rights violations: is the government in question pro or...
made popular Oct 1 2010
Since the days of Anwar Sadat, Egypt’s regime has long since tuned its back to Arab nationalism. Gamal Abdul Nasser was such an electrifying icon in the Arab world it...
made popular Oct 4 2010
Why so busy with Israel’s interests and dubious concerns while neglecting America? Which nation should be the supreme priority?
The United States is about to...
made popular Sep 29 2010
Not a bad idea.
It has been widely reported now even in the American press that a regime newspaper in Egypt purposely doctored a photo to make it appear as if their...
made popular Sep 27 2010
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