Archive for the 'Iraq' Category
I’m not sure whether I lied or not
0 Comments Published by hasan January 3rd, 2009 in Iraq, Palestine, peace.Earlier today, I wasn’t sure whether I lied or not.
I had just hopped off the train at Kunitachi Station to head over to my research lab, where I am still busy polishing up my masters thesis. Besides the ideas of the passages I intend on fixing up today, my mind was still hazy with heavy [...]
The Appropriate Shoes for the Appropriate Occasion
4 Comments Published by hasan December 19th, 2008 in Iraq.The train was late because another sad fool decided that it would be appropriate to throw himself in front of the wheels of a passing train in Shinjuku Station. People felt uncomfortable waiting that long and one could sense a film of tensity take form over the unpleasant crowd. Nevertheless, when the trains finally went [...]
I picked up a copy of The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail (Translated by Elizabeth Windslow, with an introduction by Saadi Simawe) quite a while ago, but I skimmed through it again today while taking a break from the endless research-related tomes I have yet to go through. The War Works Hard is a [...]
صمت بغداد (The Silence of Baghdad)
2 Comments Published by hasan March 20th, 2008 in Iraq, memories.ÙÙŠ الذكرى الخامسة للØرب بالعراق اقدم قليلا من الصمت
On the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, I offer a little bit of silence
On Beirut and Gaza
0 Comments Published by hasan July 14th, 2006 in Iraq, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, War.It’s really been difficult for me to swallow watching the Israeli Army “defending” (as a particular super-power country leader so elllllloquently put it) itself by taking out important infrastructure and murdering scores of innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip (with its Economy and People gasping for a breath of life) and Lebanon.
The sad thing is, [...]