Comments on: Top Pleasant and Unpleasant experiences in Damascus http://www.kabobfest.com/2007/09/top-pleasant-and-unpleasant-experiences-in-damascus.html The irreverent, activist, often-inappropriate Arab-American (and others) blog. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:30:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Reducing Chances of Being Sexually Harassed in an Arab country | KABOBfest http://www.kabobfest.com/2007/09/top-pleasant-and-unpleasant-experiences-in-damascus.html/comment-page-1#comment-140988 Reducing Chances of Being Sexually Harassed in an Arab country | KABOBfest Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:04:56 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/2007/09/top-pleasant-and-unpleasant-experiences-in-damascus.html#comment-140988 [...] Morocco, Tunisia, UAE, Oman, Jordan, that I have picked up a few tips that have been invaluable. My awakened consciousness about this issue was drastically shaped by a summer in Damascus four years.... Although I made a habit of visiting Lebanon in prior years, and even lived in Rome and NYC (where [...] [...] Morocco, Tunisia, UAE, Oman, Jordan, that I have picked up a few tips that have been invaluable. My awakened consciousness about this issue was drastically shaped by a summer in Damascus four years…. Although I made a habit of visiting Lebanon in prior years, and even lived in Rome and NYC (where [...]

]]> By: Maytha http://www.kabobfest.com/2007/09/top-pleasant-and-unpleasant-experiences-in-damascus.html/comment-page-1#comment-16960 Maytha Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:29:00 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/2007/09/top-pleasant-and-unpleasant-experiences-in-damascus.html#comment-16960 Wow-apparently sarcasm doesn't come across so well over the internet. <br /><br />That was a Colbertian statement of mine, as in: <br /><br />I heart Bashar : <br />Colbert hearts Huckabee Wow-apparently sarcasm doesn’t come across so well over the internet.

That was a Colbertian statement of mine, as in:

I heart Bashar :
Colbert hearts Huckabee

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kabobfest.com/2007/09/top-pleasant-and-unpleasant-experiences-in-damascus.html/comment-page-1#comment-16961 Anonymous Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:00:00 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/2007/09/top-pleasant-and-unpleasant-experiences-in-damascus.html#comment-16961 a devoted worshipper of bashar al assad? so you must be a satanist. you might as well as worship sharon while you are at it. blah. a devoted worshipper of bashar al assad? so you must be a satanist. you might as well as worship sharon while you are at it. blah.

]]> By: Will http://www.kabobfest.com/2007/09/top-pleasant-and-unpleasant-experiences-in-damascus.html/comment-page-1#comment-16962 Will Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:01:00 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/2007/09/top-pleasant-and-unpleasant-experiences-in-damascus.html#comment-16962 May,<br /><br />I do not want to sound like I'm doubting your recollection of ass-grabbing, but I do know that in Hallab (Aleppo), ass-grabbing is a friendly gesture. It is common there to welcome strangers by a slight, unanticipated pinch to the tush. I read that hard groping is reserved for close friends and family (Patai, Rafael 'The Arab Mind' Hatherleigh Press, 1983 edition, pg 242).<br /><br />Maybe, just maybe, the offenders were visiting Hallabis unaware of the boundaries of their customs.<br /><br />Yours,<br /><br />Will<br /><br />PS - mmm... Ashta is very tasty. May,

I do not want to sound like I’m doubting your recollection of ass-grabbing, but I do know that in Hallab (Aleppo), ass-grabbing is a friendly gesture. It is common there to welcome strangers by a slight, unanticipated pinch to the tush. I read that hard groping is reserved for close friends and family (Patai, Rafael ‘The Arab Mind’ Hatherleigh Press, 1983 edition, pg 242).

Maybe, just maybe, the offenders were visiting Hallabis unaware of the boundaries of their customs.

Yours,

Will

PS – mmm… Ashta is very tasty.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kabobfest.com/2007/09/top-pleasant-and-unpleasant-experiences-in-damascus.html/comment-page-1#comment-16963 Anonymous Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:24:00 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/2007/09/top-pleasant-and-unpleasant-experiences-in-damascus.html#comment-16963 RE: ass-grabbing<br /><br />The way I figure it, unsolicited grabbing of any manner is never a compliment, unless the touched is comfortable and consents to it (re: saw you coming and isn't stressed).<br /><br />My body is my territory, I don't care if some people's customs are to kiss someone on the cheek, if I'm not comfortable with it, they need to respect that and STFU about what I chose to do with my with damn body.<br /><br />...and I swear, some of these jerks does it on purpose, you just don't grab a woman from behind, even the shoulder. Would actually addressing her with a friendly hello kill you?<br /><br />- Mercurial Georgia RE: ass-grabbing

The way I figure it, unsolicited grabbing of any manner is never a compliment, unless the touched is comfortable and consents to it (re: saw you coming and isn’t stressed).

My body is my territory, I don’t care if some people’s customs are to kiss someone on the cheek, if I’m not comfortable with it, they need to respect that and STFU about what I chose to do with my with damn body.

…and I swear, some of these jerks does it on purpose, you just don’t grab a woman from behind, even the shoulder. Would actually addressing her with a friendly hello kill you?

- Mercurial Georgia

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