A Shakira Shitstorm in Beirut

You may think that Shakira’s show in Lebanon will be loaded with BS identity marketing, Orientalism and corporate pop globalism. You are so wrong! Shakira’s changing it up big-time.

Woods Brings out the Tiger in Me.

Tiger Woods’ life is turning upside down as not one but THREE mistresses have been exposed. The New York Daily News, which as the scum of tabloids has the right to judge his obsession with sex, is referring them as his “triple bogey.”

Media are releasing the inner-most personal communications: his sext messages to his lovers and his desperate call to one of his mistresses warning that his wife may be trying to reach her. He’s been forced to apologize to us, the public, for his transgressions (apology ACCEPTED!)

What Americans Read

At the checkout line of my local grocery store, two headlines caught my eye.

The first angered me. It is a tabloid expose about Obama’s supposed “top secret” meeting with “Muslims.” It refers to a “shocking pact with the enemy.” I love how this garbage rag equates “Muslims” with “the enemy.”

I know few people take these publication seriously (I hope), but our grocery lines should not be polluted with such racist trash.

The King of Pop in KABOBfest History

As you have probably heard by now, the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, is dead at the age of 50.

I always thought of him as one-part human, one-part entertainer extraordinaire and one-part walking testament to the excessive and cruel social-psychological trauma of our rampant and often masochistic celebrity-worshiping culture.

Today, we definitely lost the human.

It may be inappropriate so soon, but I would like to share with you some of the posts we’ve had in the past about Michael Jackson.

Paris Hilton: How Do You Say ‘Huge’ in Arabic?

In case you haven’t heard, Paris Hilton is in Dubai looking for a new BFF (best friend forever).  She’ll be taping her reality series “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF” for the next three weeks.  This wouldn’t have happened without the approval of Dubai’s leader, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. I guess times must really [...]

Roger Waters Doesn’t Hold Back

Roger Waters, from the rock band Pink Floyd, made the news today after touring the wall at the Aida Refugee Camp and then visiting Jenin where he’s supporting the rebuilding of a cinema there (www.cinemajenin.org). What I found interesting was how the Jerusalem Post covered the story, starting with their headline: “Tear down the wall, [...]

A Half-way Comprehensive List of Famous Arab and Muslim Jews (as paradoxical as that might sound)

Seeing as how many people become shocked by the news that comedic megastar Jerry Seinfeld is part Syrian (Hungarian Jewish Father, Syrian Jewish Mother-HALABIYYA on top of it all!), and also in light of Lag B’Omer and the Second Passover, I decided to compile a list of famous Arab, mostly Arab American, Jews:  Talal Asad’s [...]

Nobody Loves Brad Garrett

Brad Garrett who is known for his sitcom work, most notably on Everybody Loves Raymondignited a new racial controversy yesterday when he dropped some racial slurs at a paparazzo during a heated argument in the middle of the street. His words proof that bizarre things happen in real life not just in sitcoms. In the [...]

Joaquin Phoenix: The Al-Qaeda of Hollywood

I hope he does not kick my ass for writing this. There are several signs that Hollywood stud Joaquin Phoenix is either an actual member of Al Qaeda or is the group’s analogue in Hollywood. Trust me. I know. I’m Arab. Joaquin Phoenix has been as angry as hell lately. And so has Al Qaeda. [...]

Is Ben Affleck the MAN?

Well he did do Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Garner, and Jimmy Kimmel. But that’s not why I ask… The Washington Post reports: “Affleck was railing about the Israeli invasion of Gaza. And, thanks to his special access, he said he has already registered his concerns with the highest echelons of the Obama administration. He [...]