Culture
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.
Afghanistan: Touch Down in Flight
Just stop everything you’re doing right now because it’s probably incredibly insignificant to what this short film is about to throw into your optic nerve.
18 Signs of Arabic Weddings
Everyone asking for free professional advice. If you are a lawyer, then other guests ask you about immigration. “Doctor, can I show you my rash?” Dentist? They’ll all show you their cavities. Gynecologist? The bathroom is that way. Just make sure the hedges are trimmed
Celebration of Arab Culture at Lincoln Theatre
Look, aside from the World Cup, we Arabs really only enjoy two other things with equal pleasure: Fashion and Music. Take a look back at the last Arab wedding you’ve been to, remember Uncle Sammy dressed in a plaid powder-blue suit and dancing to Nancy Ajram with the ferocity that makes Mick Jagger look like a white boy at a Zulu coming-of-age ceremony.
Iraqi Pop-Rock Band Set For Virginia Concert
The coolest pop-rock in Arabia will always be UTN1. Ever since the Arab spring started, there has been a surge in band’s popularity. Arab countries like Egypt have so many new bands now, and it has enriched the field building a new audience tired of being spoon-fed the same,old karaoke pop. Lebanon and Jordan are [...]
Egyptians In Solidarity With Tortured Syrian Cartoonist
The Syrian regime’s brutal and targeted beating of dissident political satirist Ali Ferzat in Damascus in August prompted cartoonists around the world to respond with drawings illustrating the pen’s prevailing power over the sword. In Egypt, the cartoonist community has taken their solidarity one step further by compiling their drawings in a traveling exhibit of their collective support.
The Gatsbyian Nature of (Underground) Parties in Kuwait
A question rears its head: If parties are supposedly spaces of liberty and escapism, how are we, the attendants, truly free if we are constantly isolated, paranoid, guarded?
Too Fat for a Revolution
This problem is very easy to solve. Just imagine that the building has always had only one elevator. You wouldn’t have anything to be frustrated about.
Bird
Any MC who uses “lame ducks” and references the Palestine Papers gets my ringing approval. Bird is rocking it.
This Lady Just Retired
Apparently she is the longest-serving female taxi driver in all of the Arabian Peninsula. According to Al Jazeera, Aisha Ibrahim, 73 of Eden, Yemen, has been behind the power steering before power steering was invented. She’s been driving the public for around for over 45 years. Te get a sense of how long that is, that’s longer than Muammar [...]
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