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Monthly Archives: October 2010

Fisk on Middle East Christians

October 26, 2010

An interesting, if not hopelessly bleak overview of Christianity in the contemporary Middle East: This is, however, not so much …

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Israeli Students Fight for Dual Narrative History Text

October 25, 2010

Kudos to the students of the Sha’ar Hanegev High School near Sderot, Israel, who are fighting to incorporate in their curricula …

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What Price A Life?

October 22, 2010

Well, in Saudi Arabia the blood money price list runs as follows RS100,000 if the victim is a Muslim man …

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On Lost Childhood in Palestine/Israel

October 21, 2010

A quick, yet poignant quip taken from Anton Shammas’ 1988 New York Review of Books piece, ‘A Stone’s Throw’: “For …

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Egyptian Polygamy, c. 1848

October 17, 2010

My first class of the new academic year will look at the European presence in the Middle East during the …

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Tomberries: Fruit or Vegetable?

October 13, 2010

I put to you the eternal question:

Ahmadinejad, Harbinger of Peace

October 11, 2010

I kid you not, for his forthcoming visit to Lebanon has been billed as a “historic event” and likely to …

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More Police Brutality: 10 Points for Guessing the Country

October 7, 2010

And it may surprise you: When M. began taking pictures, she was arrested. She was taken into police custody where …

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Can Enthusiasm Be Bottled?

October 6, 2010

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 …

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Fodail Aberkane

October 5, 2010

Because he is one of many who have been, are and will be unduly ignored by the world’s apathetic media: …

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