If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Abbas demands final status talks or nothing as he heads to Egypt summit
(Via: Independent)
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, is demanding that next Monday's scheduled summit with Ehud Olmert, the [...]
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, [...]
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Ok, let's do something productive. It is called "Google-bombing for Alaa." Here is the deal: http://freealaa.blogspot.com/
A team of bloggers from all around the world are teaming up to create a special blog about Alaa's detention. Then bloggers from all around the world are asked to link to this page using the text "Egypt". (Due [...]
Update 1: I'll be on BBC Radio "World Have Your Say" tonight to talk about Alaa'a arrest.
Update 2: Kevin from BBC's "World Have Your Say" writes in BBC blogs:
I contacted the Egyptian Embassy here in London to give them a chance to respond. I called around 4 pm, and their press secretary had already gone [...]
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WE'RE NOT TERRORISTS. ARAB (MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS, et al) ARE NOT TERRORISTS. MUSLIMS (ARAB AND NON-ARAB) ARE NOT TERRORISTS.
How far do we, Arab/Muslims, have to go in flaunting our moderation? Would posting condolences, apologies and condemn banners solve the problem? But apologizing for what? For something we haven't done? Is it a double act of auto-stigmatization [...]
It's not only in our blood, it's even in our hair styles. That is Politics!
I don't recall attending any festival, shows, conferences, even business workshops around the Arab world, without having a touch of politics in it. It seems that we are born with a destiny to live a daily political cyclone. Is it a [...]
A new master piece article by Wendy Campbell, Mark Green. Wendy and Mark are documentary filmmakers from Southern California. Their documentary films can be found at the website of their company, Marwen Media.
Thanks to Robert Lindsay (An Independent Left Journalist From California), who send a trackback to my post "Do Jews Run Hollywood?", through which [...]
An interesting website, BetaVote tabulates straw votes for Bush and Kerry from around the world. Though unscientific, and distorted in its U.S. section by Bush unlovers, it provides a good sample of world thinking about the election.
The vision of a re-elected George W. Bush ruling the world does not sit well. Few non-Americans know anything [...]
Protesting Israel's Apartheid Wall
By TOUFIC HADDAD writing from day 5 of the solidarity tent in Ar Ram where at least 17 people have joined in on the hunger strike protesting Israel's apartheid wall. Despite the heat wave (36 centigrade) there is a good atmosphere in the tent, and the hunger strikers - though visibly more [...]
Criminals of the Cloth
By WILLIAM A. COOK
Perhaps we have not paid enough attention to Exodus and have lost, therefore, the import of General "Jerry" Boykin's words to the evangelical Christians as reported in the LA Times on the 16th, "We in the army of God, in the house of God, kingdom of God have been [...]
