Arabosphere
Is Libya A Lost Cause?
Accepting western intervention in Libya under the guise of ‘help’ or ‘preventing bloodshed’ was a grave mistake by the Libyan rebels and their supporters across the Arab world. At that moment, Libya’s prospects turned bleak.
And The Shithead Award Goes to…..Adel Imam
I do not think there is anyone fooled by this lame attempted to try to reinvent Adel Imam history who now says he has always been in support of the protesters which he wasn’t and never was.
Syrian Artists: Decades of Syrian Music
Here is a list of Arab singers who hail from Syria, the artists on the list are the pride of Syria and the rest of the Arab world. Syrian artists are known to be the last man/woman standing in preserving the art of Arab Tarab–traditional Arabic music style. There are also few Syrian artist who [...]
18 Arab Leaders You Would Want with You in a Bar Fight
This post is not a political statement. It is simply a list of the Arab political figures you would want on your side if a bar fight were to break out. Because there are not that many, most of them are wimps once you take away their mukhabaraat, I had to throw in a few [...]
10 Random Places to meet your Arab Heartthrob
So, Latinos meet new people on the Salsa dance floor, African Americans mingle and have a good time watching Stand-up Comedians, Indians go to the Punjabi buffet to laugh and meet new faces, Asians are all over Facebook, White people have their bookstores and coffee shops . . . enough with the stereotypes already! Where [...]
FuNkY Arab?
Jad Choueiri, the Lebanese singer, dancer and music video director is back! This time he no longer intends to pollute the Arab music scene, this time the assault is global! Jad just released his much anticipated English song and music video in which he has collaborated with a number of American based talents. I have [...]
How to tell that you are in an Arab capital city…
1. There is a much raved about Corniche. (I had never heard of a “corniche” till I entered an Arab country). 2. As if part of one of the city’s must-see cultural monuments, a native excitedly points out and empathically insists you visit the high-rise rotating restaurant that would have probably been popular in the [...]
The Logic of Power
Perhaps Israeli commentators dominating the American airwaves recently are right. If the Palestinians were in Israel’s proverbial shoes, they would have done the same thing. If the Palestinians were a persecuted minority in Europe, a third of whom were killed during a massive Holocaust and then escaped to a land with weaker states where they [...]
Dear Arabs, Just Chill Out
Palestine appreciates your gestures of solidarity. But cut it out. You are in no position to help us out, your speeches and demonstrations from rebellious gulf to the roaring ocean have never accomplished anything, so stop pretending that you are, or trying to. You probably care, thank you, but you got your own issues to [...]
Islamists at the Gate, But It’s Okay
The recent spate of piracy along the coast of Somalia around the Gulf of Aden has refocused international attention on Somalia and for good reason. Somalia is the latest example of how the West’s “Anything but Islamists” mantra has hurt Western interests and the wider Middle East region as well. The piracy off the coast [...]
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