Media and Representation
America’s Most Lethal Navy SEAL Sniper
I want to feel sorry for him for not being able to see how he was contradicting himself in saying that the people he killed were “savage”, while also maintaining that he had to portray them as savage, and that he had “to get in the mentality and…not think of them as human beings.”
Post-Revolution Egypt Needs Orientalist Perverts
Or maybe it doesn’t. Or maybe it does. Perhaps, it doesn’t.
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.
USPCN responds to PA statehood bid
Any diplomatic initiatives, including the initiative at the United Nations this September, must preserve the status of the PLO as the sole representative of the Palestinian people at the United Nations and protect and advance our inalienable rights. The current Statehood initiative does neither, and is therefore an unacceptable threat to the Palestinian national movement.
How Saudi Arabia Killed the Arab Spring
Saudi Arabia squashed the “Arab Spring” when it sent its military to quell the popular uprising in neighboring Bahrain earlier this year.
Colbert Smashes US Media Norway “Coverage”
Stephen Colbert’s Monday night show featured a sharp takedown of US media that rushed to point fingers at Al-Qaeda after the devastating attack in Norway, and then played defense even after they were proved wrong.
A Gay (Straight) Girl (Man) in Damascus (Edinburgh)
Not only did the attention received by MacMasters fake blog rob Syrians of their own voice, it put them in danger in a very real way.
Arabs Get Creative About Development
A group of young Arab students in Montreal are working on an international development conference for this upcoming fall.
ADC! Where is the Belly Dancer?
On the stage, speakers discussed Palestine and Iraq. And then suddenly, in the middle of a touching speech, a strong voice, in Arabic, shouted: “Enough already! Where is the belly dancer?”
The Bodies of Permanent War
Masculine bodies in the war on terror.
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