Archive for 2011
Newt Gingrich’s “Blue Herring” on Palestine
There’s a common logical fallacy known as a “red herring.” It’s essentially an inflammatory point that is true, but irrelevant. Red herrings are used commonly in fictional murder mysteries. When cleverly placed they can trick the most seasoned mystery reader. You know, the wealthy victim’s wife was sleeping with an accountant who had money problems. Positive motive, and subtly placed, but completely irrelevant.
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Reading Reactions to Re-ignited Egyptian Protests
A revolution takes time.
Does the GCC deal mean a Yemeni democracy?
Ali Abdullah Saleh finally signed the GCC initiative on Wednesday; does it mean the end of months of protest, and victory for the Yemeni revolution?
To Young Americans of Syrian Origin
A little known poem penned by one of the world’s best selling poets, Gibran Kahlil Gibran, in the July 1926 issue of “Syrian World” (NYC’s first Arab American English newspaper):
Iraqi Tron
Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Enjoy.
Yemeni Revolution arrives in Michigan
Tawakkol Karman, Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, at the University of Michigan.
Thank You, New York Times, For Making Us Free
New York Times reporters are truly on the cutting edge. They dig deep. They unearth the worms. They uproot the, well, roots. Everybody else is too lazy, or too stupid, to do any serious journalism. Everybody else covers the same old Negative Nancy material. They cover dance. And stuff.
Selective Shivers in the Islamist Winter
Tunisia`s example demonstrates that we cannot necessarily assume that Islamism can only lead to an oppressive proverbial harem for women (and even men) or that and secularism is the only route to achieve good.
Post-Revolution Egypt Needs Orientalist Perverts
Or maybe it doesn’t. Or maybe it does. Perhaps, it doesn’t.
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