Infanticide and Gulf Migrant Workers ~1
2010 saw the issue of honor killing attract the condemnation and awareness it deserves, and while the legislators may not …
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Burka Woman
A rather adorable parody, by Saad Haroon: Via Saudiwoman.
Creation of Israel or Partition of Palestine?
As much as the snow has descended, so too have the deadlines; and likewise the snow, just as one batch …
2010: A Year in Quips
Facebook has launched a new app that gathers random (or selected) statuses entered over 2010 and formulates it into a …
Al Wihdat Riots
On Friday night:
Hijab Haters
In 1992 the Egyptian-American writer on Islamic feminism, Leila Ahmed, observed the following in her book Women and Gender in …
Birds and Trees and Snow
Because when I am 5 minutes from seizing my oven-baked pie with rapacious glee, imagination deserts me: Taken from my …
Sunday Wisdom: Ibn Arabi
This week, courtesy of Muhyi al-Din Ibn ‘Arabi (1165-1240): A man madly in love with his beloved went to knock …
On Culinary Wizardry
Which means this will be but a brief post, merely to boast that today I made reibekuchen, otherwise known as latkes to …
Fear and Loathing in Tel Aviv
Not to mention Jerusalem, Eilat, Tiberius, Safed… and the list goes on. The xenophobic blight has been escalating in Israeli society …
