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Three-Day Weekend

We’re entering the three-day Columbus Day weekend in the US, so unless something major drives me to comment, I’ll probably be idle till Tuesday. If I have something important I’ll post, but plan to be...

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Ah, the Radicalism of the Young: I Guess it’s Not the Sixties Anymore

Okay, we old Boomers who remember the sixties are glad to see student agitators still exist, but something seems a tad different somehow. Cases in point: a) the other day, Kuwait University’s student...

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Egyptian Transportation Minister Resigns Due to Train Wreck

Ministerial responsibility is a concept accepted in theory in most of the Middle East, but only rarely experienced in practice. We have one of the exceptions: the Egyptian Minister of Transportation...

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Al-Jazeera Program on Houthi Fighting

I’m busy with other things right now, so I’ll give you something to watch. Some dramatic video and interesting commentary in an Al-Jazeera English report on the Houthi fighting: Al-Jazeera is one news...

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Now We Are One: One Year of the Blog

No doubt a lot of people (at least in the US) went to work this morning thinking this day was of note for one of two reasons: 1) President Obama makes his State of the Union address tonight; or 2)...

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You know, about those MIG29, … why don’t you take a few helicopters instead?

“Give me something, anything …” AP/ here Russia has agreed to provide Lebanon with an unspecified number of helicopter gunships instead of MiG-29 fighter jets, the Lebanese president’s office said….....

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Egyptian media

Something has changed in Egyptian media. I said this before and I say it again: these are the signs of a regime that is losing control before my eyes. Tributes to Mubarak are decreasing and signs of...

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Yep-Roc Heresay (or Yabra Harissa)

Okay, for the record, don’t blame me for posting on something less serious than Netanyahu. Here’s the isnad or chain of transmitters for this one: Qifa Nabki started this here; (he in turn ultimately...

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"Do we have the ‘hardware & protection for the What If’…"

Politico/ here “… Outside of the UN Security Council track, “there’s a second track, where you have Gulf allies and the rest of the Arab states who are trying to build consensus among the Gulf and Arab...

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IPad Banned in Israel (for Now)

Huh? I’m not sure I get this. Did Apple miss something, or the Israeli bureaucrats? Go to Source

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Emirati Seeks to Be First Arab Woman at North Pole

And now for something completely different . . . Via BoingBoing, I learn of Elham al-Qasimi, who is determined to be the first Arab woman to reach the North Pole. She’s from Dubai (where else?). She...

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While We Were Otherwise Occupied . . .

Something like 12 out of my last 14 posts have dealt with Tunisia. Over the three day holiday weekend I kept right on blogging. In the meantime, off in the margins: The Special Tribunal for Lebanon,...

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Was it Something I Said?

Traffic in January, not counting RSS feeds:Thank you. Please tell your friends. Go to Source

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Poor Obama: his options are limited

““Our ability to dictate outcomes, that’s not something we’re able to do.“ Go to Source

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"Something was broken yesterday"

In this AJE interview, Hossam Bahgat of EIPR does a great job explaining how serious and unprecedented yesterday’s attack by the military on (mostly) Coptic protestors was.  Go to Source

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