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Totally attention-starved, they compete with each other for human affection — or, getting touch, as they like to say.
When [...]
Update: I regret that I had to remove the photos from Flickr for copyright issues. You can still view the photos and more here: http://www.palestinecostumearchive.org/
A sample of Costumes from my homeland - Palestine. A photo collection I gathered from the net can be viewed here.
Click on photo for a large view.
Palestinian child’s quilt
Bethlehem wedding [...]
Are you a coffee lover like me? Well, even if you are not, I’m sure you will give it a second thought after looking at this gallery:
More here.
Also you can have a Coffee Chat here.
That’s not all what you can get out of coffee. Here is 100% Coffee Art:
And just before you [...]
I’m a Star Wars fan:
Facts… If Star Wars was a country, its $20-billion would place it 70th in the World Bank’s rankings of countries according to gross domestic product (GDP), narrowly behind Syria, Serbia and Oman, but ahead of Bulgaria, Libya and Lebanon. George Lucas’s brainchild has made twice as much money as each of [...]
Three rare paintings by chimpanzee artist Congo, completed in the late 1950s, will be sold at London’s Bonhams auction house next month. The lot is estimated to sell for $1,130-$1,500. Congo, who was born in 1954, produced some 400 drawings and paintings between the ages of 2 and 4. It was not immediately known if [...]
The Arab nation is screwed in every aspect of life, we understand that, we live it, yes we try to resist it (and this blog is my way of resistance), but to find out that even our gays are the one’s who get screwed,o I just fell of the chair laughing.
I just happen to come [...]
Last month they detained him. Yesterday, Saudi religious scholars have condemned an Arab television “Star Academy” competition as a crime against Islam and urged the Saudi Arabian pop singer who triumphed last month to repent. More than 60 sheikhs rounded on the fresh-faced Hisham Abdulrahman, whose victory in the Star Academy reality show triggered the [...]
From the international award winning watercolor by the famed Palestinian artist Rana Ghassan:
This photo released by the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the National Geographic Society on Tuesday May 10, 2005 shows a model of King Tutankhamun made by a French team based on facial reconstructions from CT scans of King Tutankhamun’s mummy. Three teams of forensic artists and scientists, from France, the United States and Egypt, [...]
He also set a world record at Sotheby’s a year earlier when he paid �507,500 (around Dh3.5 billion) for Gustave LeGray’s mid-19th-century seascape, Grande Vague de Sete. Where he got the money from? Public funds of course!
Sheikh Saud Al-Thani is a second cousin of Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the ruling Emir of Qatar. As chairman [...]
A self-illuminating fabric merges tiny flexible optical fibers, originally developed for medical applications, & ordinary fabrics, like polyester & Lycra. It gives off its own light in five different LED colors, runs off of a rechargeable cell phone battery or a normal AC adapter, & can be used for place mats, table cloths, curtains, clothing [...]
This year, Computerlove.net invites artists to interpret the theme of “Geography and Information” in any style of visual language to express and reflect their personal feelings…
Finalists’ Gallery
See also this amazing ‘WORLDPROCESSOR‘.
Nancy Ajram in town? That means: sexual harassment, theft, excessive alcohol consumption resulting in violence, people fainting; all took place during the concert in Marrakech.
The mayor of Marrakech in Morocco has announced that Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram will not be permitted to hold any future concerts in the city to avoid the reoccurrence of any [...]
A year of triumph, turmoil and tribulation is represented in the winning photographs of the 62nd annual Pictures of the Year International photojournalism competition just completed at the Missouri School of Journalism. From the summer Olympics to the elections in the U.S. and Afghanistan to the continuing hotspot conflicts of the world to the daily [...]
Yemen�s first ever feature film “A New Day in Old Sana�a” is accepted by Cannes Film Festival as part of the Film Marche. However, the film will not be part of the competition in the festival this May 11-22.
The strong Islamist group in the Bahrain parliament has submitted a motion to the House aiming to cancel a plan to stage a concert that would feature the leading contestants of a popular Star Academy show.
Will the $16 million, 3,465-square metre Arab American museum of brightly coloured mosaics and interactive exhibits change the 9/11 misunderstanding and suspicions.
The Financial Times says: “People of Arab descent living in the US are better educated and wealthier than the average American of non-Arab descent. That is one surprising conclusion drawn from data collected by [...]
Saudi singer Hisham Abdel Rahman poses by his ‘Star Academy’ award upon his arrival at Jiddah airport, Saudi Arabia, in this file picture dated Saturday April 16, 2005. Religious authorities briefly detained Saudi singer Hisham Abdel Rahman, made famous in the Arab World by winning this year’s ‘Star Academy’ reality TV show for causing an [...]
TigerHawk claims here that: “…America did not support Israel to any meaningful degree until 1967. It did so in that war because the key Arab powers allied themselves with the Soviet Union, the enemy of the United States.”
Of course this is very misleading statement and lacks historical facts. I’ve chosen this letter by His Majesty [...]
A special musical event took place in Israel last Sunday, when David Broza, an Israeli pop star and Wisam Murad, a Palestinian musician, performed a beautiful, simple peace song that they co-wrote, In My Heart (B’Libi). The song was played for the first time simultaneously on Galei Tzahal, the Israeli Army Radio and Voice of [...]
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