First of all, please meet Handala (Hat tip: Ben Heine for his great artwork):

Handala (or Hanzala) is the most famous of the Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali’s cartoon characters. From approximately 1975 through 1987 Naji Al-Ali created cartoons that depict the complexities of the plight of Palestinian refugees. These cartoons are still relevant today and Handala, [...]

What would happen if you try to video the Sydney Harbor Bridge or nuclear reactor that produces medical isotopes? Nothing!

Well, that depends what you are wearing:

WTF? I’m speechless. This is the “best” insult I’ve seen this year.

[Via: boingboing]

Well, now it is official!

I wanted to post about this a week ago, but the technical problems kept me away from doing my daily business - blogging - which seems to be disturbing the U.S. State Department to a level that forced them to form a team to fight blogs speaking the truth about them [...]

Hello Haitham, I’m mailing from Haifa, we had corresponded once before (Who knows ‘Arab-Israel’?), and I wanted to update your readers on what is happening recently (a group event) and respond to some of your wonders, questions and statements mentioned in the former blog post (my own individual analysis), but first, here’s a video [...]

Are you a school student and you having a blog? I know that many of my friends (bloggers) are collage or university students, but I don’t know of any school bloggers, do you? (And by school I mean students who are 18 years old or less). Why I’m asking is because of the following [...]

I know it is cold out there. In fact, this is one of the coldest years over here in Bahrain. Anyway, here is a new idea to get you warm. This invention won the prize for “Best Dumbass Idea of the Year.” It is called “Date Palm Fireplace”:
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Here is an interesting one:

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So the highest daily posting volume last year crossed 2.5 MILLION post a DAY during July/August 2006. The reason is simple to guess as this Technorati analysis graph shows. It is Israel war on Lebanon. Oh yeah, the world can burn in hell and hardly anyone will care [...]

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Sometime, somewhere in the Arab World!

(source Unknown)

Update: H/T Bashir, here is the original photo:

(source: Sharif Bujanda)

So the photoshoped one is worse, or this one? Same irony (unlucky housemate)!

Kimmy wrote me this email:

The US supports Israel, a known fact.
Israel has nuclear weapons. Now a known fact.
Israel does whatever they want to do in the Middle East.
Bush invaded Iraq and Afghanistan in the name of democracy.
Now Saudi Arabia is vowing to support the Sunnis if the US leaves Iraq.
This makes Saudia Arabia mainly [...]

(Ben Heine � Cartoons)

Earlier today, Arab League said that U.S. veto dooms Mideast peace process. Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa slammed the “incomprehensible” U.S. veto of a United Nations resolution condemning Israel’s devastating raid in the Gaza Strip.

“This sends a message that causes us great sorrow and anger. The message was well received, [...]