Wikileaks: The Tunisian Edition
Because it wasn’t just Saudia Arabia, Iran and Lebanon making the headlines: though it acts to the contrary, it seems …
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Best of the Rest: Saudi women sue their mahrams for forcibly keeping them single
In a break from what is certainly becoming an unhealthy obsession with the dazzling drifts of snow buffeting our vistas, I forcibly …
A Winter’s Walk
Gently falling snow, dim street lights, trees, church bells, dusk… Almost Victorian. I half expected a country urchin to gambol …
ثلج
As pledged, more of the white stuff:
Tengo El Tango
I love to dance. Of course, I am no Margot Fontaine or Fifi Abdou, but I don’t believe it should get …
Snow.
Apparently, it can be lovely: And as there is naught but snow predicted, expect several more posts of a similar …
I ♥ irkafirka
First there was Twitter, which allowed us to indulge in text-based peep-tommery from around the world. Now there is irkafirka, …
Time and Music: Quand Tu Danses
It’s strange how certain facts (like the names of my students) can prove ever elusive, while snippets of a song …
Gibran, Ah! Gibran…
Is all one can think when reading the works of Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931). The following is an excerpt from …
Creative Writing Jitters .2
Today’s creative writing class offering focuses on the internal narrative. After receiving a joyfully positive review on the previous submission, …
