A few days ago I posted about an ad a couple of naive Hollywood stars and starlets had taken out in the LA Times condemning Hamas and Hizballah while going out of their way to not to make a mention of Israel. I admit, being a movie buff, I had paused for a moment to […]

I can’t believe I almost missed this post. I didn’t find out about it till I was surfing the Democracy Now! site. Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar from Raed in the Middle had an out of this world experience when he was not allowed on board a flight at JFK for wearing a t-shirt with Arabic […]

Everyone on the Jordanian blogosphere already knows about Amin Matalqa’s plans to film “Captain Abu Raed” but I thought it was a good idea to increase the exposure especially after his endevour has just been chronicled in a Jordan Time’s piece. Given that the newspaper’s website doesn’t store any of the articles I felt it […]

Sounds like society’s wet dream for political accountability; politicians you can just throw in jail. But this is far from the case here. Israel has just detained yet another senior member of Palestinian parliament. Mr Ramahi is the fourth-ranking official in the Palestinian legislature. He joins over 30 MPs of his party in jail including […]

This is just plain funny…
JEDDAH, 20 August 2006 â?? Relatives of an 80-year-old granddad, who is in intensive care at a hospital in Jeddah, were shocked to find the old-manâ??s long beard had been shaved off by the hospital barber, the Al-Madinah newspaper reported yesterday.
The Saudi son of the man said his father is suffering […]

While the numbers are still fuzzy and controversial, BBC News has an interesting breakdown of the violence in Iraq that’s worth a read. The initial invasion has without a doubt opened the floodgates for AlQueda and its likes to capatilize on the chaos. If you factor in the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians that […]

It’s been a while since I’ve put up a new playlist on the Black Iris Radio, so here are a few tracks I’ve been listening to these past few days…
Blink 182 - I’m Lost Without You
John Mayer - Hummingbird (check out this solo acoustic version)
Daniel Cage - First Time
Dashboard Confessional - Don’t Wait
Foo Fighters - […]

It was actually never until a year or two ago that I had ever heard of mosques being blown up by different sects.
Recently I had a discussion with a group of Muslim friends about topical issues. The conversation quickly took a turn to the sectarian violence in Iraq upon which one brother blurted out: “it’s […]

Knowledge can be deadly sometimes; let the stupidity continue…
BAGHDAD — Mohammed Shakir has been selling newspapers from his stall on the right bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad for 20 years.
He used to offer a selection from all of Iraq’s political movements and parties - but no more. In his majority Sunni neighborhood […]

If the war comes back who will get blamed for starting it?
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah said it foiled an Israeli commando raid early Saturday near its stronghold of Baalbek, a confrontation that could prove to be the biggest violation to date of the U.N.-brokered cease-fire between
Israel and Hezbollah.
Lebanese security officials confirmed a report on Hezbollah […]

If you build a better mouse trap the terrorists will build a better mouse…

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It’s not the most shocking plot twist in the world…but we will still see their movies.
Hollywood heavyweights Nicole Kidman, Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, Rupert Murdoch and more than 80 other stars played against type and entered stage right yesterday with an ad condemning Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Palestine and terrorists everywhere.
â??We the […]

Article of Interest: I’m always fascinated with the birth of a meme. A new one recently surfaced amid the vitriolic rhetoric that gets dished out by the neoconservative punditry of the Internet: “Hezbollywood.” Google it and be in awe of its (as of this writing) 131,000 results. I’m almost surprised that Google even bothers to […]

The two IAF MP’s that glorified Zarqawi as a martyr in June and were sentenced rather harshly by the State Security Court recently have received reduced sentences through an appeal at the Cassation Court. Both sentences of 2 and 1.5 years have been reduced to 13 months and 100 JD fines. The MPs were seen […]

All Muslims and/or brown-skinned people should arrive at the airport 6 hours prior to their flight for advanced screenings. For your convenience please follow the “Brown’s Only” signs to the nearest interrogation room.
LONDON - As airport security tightens, checkpoint lines grow and tempers fray amid fears of devastating airborne attacks, more and more Britons are […]