education
Weekend Reading: Lee Bollinger’s White Man’s Burden
If you thought Lee Bollinger’s introduction of Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, to speak at Columbia University in September, was among the most ignorant, unprofessional, and uneducated displays to be spewed by a prominent educator, you’re not alone. If you are struggling to understand how such illiterate and racist remarks could come out of a major [...]
Nostaglic InRANTation: Stop Co-opting My Culture!
Long before (and by “long” I mean, a month before the “kuffiyeh kraze” first graced this lovely blog) I vitriolically slammed New York Hipsters for ignorantly wrapping the ever so dead kuffiyeh around their “red” necks on KABOBfest, I did just that on my myspace blog. Check it out: Thursday, October 05, 2006 STOP CO-OPTING [...]
The lies are starting to smell
There was an incident at the Obama rally that none of the mass media reported, which means this is a KABOBfest exclusive: A one Maytha XX-XXXXXX, female, gorgeous and curvacious, upon hearing the Senator from Illinois utter that “We should build schools! In the Middle East! Where students can learn Maths! and Science! Instead of [...]
Top News Stories from the UAE (according to gulfnews.com)
Rania Hassan: Single This whole article is just ridiculous… apparently anything is newsworthy in the United Arab Emirates. But the last line really speaks to the misogyny prevalent in so many Arab societies: “‘…my English is not too bad,’ said Rania, who is single.” Make sure you catch the related story about Asma, which is [...]
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