I’ve been thinking a lot about Nadia’s post about sexual violence and historical trauma. In the post, Nadia states:

Reading this article makes me think about the types of historical trauma we as Palestinians, and Arabs in general, are carrying around with us. When Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart speaks about sobbing uncontrollably after viewing a [...]

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, [...]

In the U.S., the issue is framed as “Immigration”

The face of the issue is framed as a brown skinned Mexican man.

And yet, all you have to do is scrape just a little under the surface to know what immigration really means and who it effects.

750+ Immigrants Detained in “Operation Return To Sender” Raids

Immigrant youth shelter [...]

I just ran by Quantcast, which is still on beta but providing some interesting stats that some bloggers might like to check.

If your blog is lucky to be profiled, you can see some fine statistical analysis that estimates some figures about your visitors, like, their age, gender, ethnicity, even education and income.

The statistics also estimate [...]

Ok, it’s time to upgrade my blogging system (wordpress). I’ve been running with WP 1.5.1 Alpha (not even beta) for ages now, and I’m tired of hacking the code, although it was fun, but now it seems that the honeymoon is over, and things are getting broken very often. Keeping in mind that since WP [...]

I liked this one:

Hello Sabbah,

I’m happy to inform you that your site sabbah.biz has won an award as best site to “Rule The World” (www.asktheworld.org/ruletheworld). Your site has been suggested by hundreds of our site’s visitors and chosen by the Rule The World staff. Your site has been awarded because of his big popularity and [...]

Sorry guys for the outage. Some technical issue, resulted from load on the server. But guess what? As much as this is upsetting me, it is also evident that visitors to this site has grown so big in the last few months, in fact exceeding all the KPI’s that I expected.

Well according to my stats, [...]

It’s been 5 days now in Jordan. Very peaceful time, waking up late, and enjoying the figs served out from my bedroom window as you can see

As usual, every night, few of our relatives comes to visit us and of course ask us “when are we going to have lunch” with them? This is [...]

Update: Everything is back to normal. Feel free…

Please don’t post comments until the further notice so that it will not be lost, as I have to make a backup to restore on another server, which means comments after the backup will be lost.

Sorry, this is temporary and should end in 12 hours or so.

Until then, [...]