Archive for the 'Middle East' Category

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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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

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, [...]



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