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Zaeem Follies – Caption Contest
These photos, captured by a Kabob-correspondent planted in Syria two years ago show several aspects of this great nation’s great Leader. Therefore, we invite you to contribute your proposed captions in the comments section below. The winners will feel good about themselves when the pictures are re-posted with winning captions.
The People Want to Overthrow the Gender Regime!
Two Transgender passengers from Jordan flying into Cairo caused a “Crisis” last weekend when they attempted to enter the country with their passports which had their birth names and assigned genders written on them. The passport officer said he was startled by a “strikingly beautiful woman” presenting her passport to him which had her name [...]
The Whistling of Places: A Short Text by Raji Bathish
Raji Bathish is a (relatively) young experimental Palestinian author from Nazareth who writes texts that blur the boundary between poetry and prose, and shake the Arab reader out of a naive, stereotypically heroic image of the Palestinian living in occupied Palestine.
For Cultural Purposes Only
Update : You may watch “They Do Not Exist” online here. (Tarboush tip: Laurie King) from Sight and Sound Magazine The Palestinian Film Archive vanished during the 1982 Israeli siege of Beirut. Sarah Wood’s ‘For Cultural Purposes Only’ revives the memory of its contents through verbal description and drawings. Palestinian writer Adania Shibli finds her [...]
Caption Contest: “Reflections on the Arab Malady”
To the cover of “Being Arab” by Samir Kassir in the original French I add the first suggested captions: the shib-shib mufakkir and “Oh fuck mum just poured a bucket of poo over her head again having remembered she’s Arab while the earth splits into two.” Other witty captions are welcomed. The best one will [...]
They Waltz Like This with Bashir…
My friend from the Occupied Golan Heights just published his own review of Waltz with Bashir in al-Quds al-Arabi a few days ago. Here is my translation of it: On the Israeli Film “Waltz with Bashir”: What Fault is it of these Poor Horses that are Dying? Salim Abu Jabal The only thing that can [...]
“Welcome to Egypt!”
It must sound familiar for some of the readers who have visited Egypt and heard this (often misleading) phrase bandied around, but for journalist Laila el-Haddad this time around, it carried a completely different meaning… And seriously, when the Zionists have such great Arab allies to oppress the Palestinians for them, why do they need [...]
Enlightened by Sight
Ahmed Darwish reviews the life of one of Egypt’s most distinguished calligraphers Khan Al-Maghrabi in Zamalek has put together an exhibition of the work of calligrapher Hamed El-Uweidi to mark the anniversary of his death last year at the age of 53. The exhibition, entitled “Love and Salute”, drew crowds of art enthusiasts and calligraphy [...]
Mada al-Carmel Issues the Second Issue of Jadal
In February, I used Kabobfest to advertise the issuing of Jadal’s first issue. I will repeat my shameless exploitation of my posting privileges now that the second issue is out. Mada al-Carmel, the Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa, a unique research center that is attempting to create the first intellectual institution run [...]
Oh, New York Times – stop trying so hard to be “objective”
If the subject of Emily Jacir’s exhibition was any different, this NYT review would be all glowing with praise for an award-winner at the Guggenheim. However, here, the writer manages to disingenuously insert that Wael Zuaiter might actually have been responsible for the Munich attacks: “In the wall text that introduces the exhibition, however, there [...]
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