Archive for August, 2006
Hollywood Emails Me
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 [...]
Global Voices: One week after the Israeli army brutally attacked a weekly non-violent legal demonstration against the wall in the village of Bilâ??in, August 18th saw yet another black and blue protest. ISM reports that this time the army showed a greater sense of preparation as they added water cannons to their arsenal of rubber bullets and sound grenades. The cannons fired blue colored water on the demonstrators resulting in burns and skin irritation, stirring questions of whether the water had been mixed with chemicals. [Read More]
Arabic: The Dangerous Language
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 [...]
Dude, Where’s My Beard?
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 [...]
Iraqi Violence In Numbers
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 [...]
August & Everything After Radio
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 – [...]
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