Fisk on Middle East Christians
An interesting, if not hopelessly bleak overview of Christianity in the contemporary Middle East: This is, however, not so much …
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Israeli Students Fight for Dual Narrative History Text
Kudos to the students of the Sha’ar Hanegev High School near Sderot, Israel, who are fighting to incorporate in their curricula …
What Price A Life?
Well, in Saudi Arabia the blood money price list runs as follows RS100,000 if the victim is a Muslim man …
On Lost Childhood in Palestine/Israel
A quick, yet poignant quip taken from Anton Shammas’ 1988 New York Review of Books piece, ‘A Stone’s Throw’: “For …
Egyptian Polygamy, c. 1848
My first class of the new academic year will look at the European presence in the Middle East during the …
Tomberries: Fruit or Vegetable?
I put to you the eternal question:
Ahmadinejad, Harbinger of Peace
I kid you not, for his forthcoming visit to Lebanon has been billed as a “historic event” and likely to …
More Police Brutality: 10 Points for Guessing the Country
And it may surprise you: When M. began taking pictures, she was arrested. She was taken into police custody where …
Can Enthusiasm Be Bottled?
If so, then I would like a healthy pint of belly-dancer Shaynaz’s. With an interminably long little-over-a-week ahead of castdom …
Fodail Aberkane
Because he is one of many who have been, are and will be unduly ignored by the world’s apathetic media: …
