Archive for the 'Middle East' Category
How to disguise yourself as an istanbullu (my 24 hours in istanbul)
7 Comments Published by hasan December 21st, 2007 in Middle East, Oud, Travel, observations.I’m in Bahrain now on a pseudo-vacation. I arrived here at an ungodly hour this morning after spending 24 hours in Istanbul. During those 24 hours in Turkey, I decided to be as close to being an istanbullu as I could.
In the hotel in which I was staying, I was immediately put off by the [...]
The Bedouins in my “memories”
3 Comments Published by hasan May 29th, 2007 in Middle East, memories.I was watching a segment on television today about Bedouins in the Hijaz region in Saudi Arabia. Even though Bahrain - where I come from - does not have a Bedouin identity, there is this untouchable something about this identity that I can strongly identify with; shedding light on a collective (and possibly more noble) [...]
What Driving by Palm Trees Does to Someone Visiting Bahrain (a.k.a., bringing out the villager inside us)
0 Comments Published by hasan February 21st, 2007 in Bahrain, Middle East, human rights, justice, observations.Okay, and so the local internet cafe is making a killing off me. Not much I can do about it, though. Not that I’m a miser who has issues with things like paying an inflated price to use someone else’s computer while my own laptop is virus-dead and Batelco STILL haven’t figured out how to [...]
George Galloway Interview on Sky News
0 Comments Published by hasan August 8th, 2006 in Lebanon, Middle East, War.This most probably isn’t the first blog entry you see about the current sad events occurring in Lebanon, but this is something that I think might strike a chord with the intellectual titilation of those who really know what’s going on over there. This little interview with George Galloway is exactly the slap in the face the media [...]
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, [...]