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...
View ArticleAh, 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...
View ArticleEgyptian 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...
View ArticleAl-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...
View ArticleNow 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)...
View ArticleYou 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….....
View ArticleEgyptian 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...
View ArticleYep-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...
View Article"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...
View ArticleIPad Banned in Israel (for Now)
Huh? I’m not sure I get this. Did Apple miss something, or the Israeli bureaucrats? Go to Source
View ArticleEmirati 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...
View ArticleWhile 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,...
View ArticleWas it Something I Said?
Traffic in January, not counting RSS feeds:Thank you. Please tell your friends. Go to Source
View ArticlePoor Obama: his options are limited
““Our ability to dictate outcomes, that’s not something we’re able to do.“ Go to Source
View Article"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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