Palestine: Don’t Wait for the Americans to Save You.

One benefit of the US occupation of Iraq is that Americans now care a bit more about what happens to Palestinians. I hate that Palestinian political gains and Iraqi subjugation may be linked in such a way that they cannot both win. Part of the reason for this is that America’s position in the region now entails costs for Israel’s brutalities. But don’t hold out hope for a benevolent America to really help the Palestinian people.

Kadim Al Sahir: The Redemption Album

Kadim Al Sahir, the legendary Iraqi musician has released his latest album, and to my surprise, glorious it was. As someone who followed Kadim Al Sahir’s two decades long career, I am proud to report back to you that our star is still at the top of his game. His album, Alrasim Bilkalimat, “drawing with [...]

Finding Islam’s Modernity

It’s not an easy road, or one which even guarantees success, but it’s the only option which perhaps remains for Muslims. Either Muslims succumb to the slow crumbling of their faith vis a vis political and social corruption or they take action which may not return the community towards the greatness it once experienced, but saves it from potential and further disintegration.

Fair and Balanced

As if Fox News didn’t distort the truth enough, now they’ve annexed Iraq too! If they had labeled Egypt, I wonder what they might have called it…Morocco? Seriously though, why is Fox making its own maps anyway? Don’t they have people for that? People who are not conservative idiots with no knowledge of the Middle [...]

Iraq: Liberated at Last?

The drawback of American troops from major cities is a promising development, but I would not get too excited.

The Iraqi government proclaimed it ‘National Sovereignty Day’ and partied like it was God’s birthday. The manufacturing of national holidays propagated with contrived symbolic meaning is eerily familiar.

Still, if anything, this occasion gives Iraqis something to celebrate. And God knows they need something. Bankrupt American policies such as the crushing sanctions — with United Nations complicity — since 1990, and the heartless invasion, added more misery to the tyrannical governance for the Saddam Hussein regime.

The Inherent Racism of Zionism

Following up on Fayyad’s most recent post… I don’t think too highly of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but every time he discusses Zionism and the question of Palestine, I find myself nodding in agreement. The speech he delivered in Geneva on Monday was no exception. While he probably went a little overboard with some of the economic [...]

The Narcicyst’s Incredible New Video

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4072264&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1The Narcicyst, a Canadian-Iraqi MC and member of Arab Summit, released a music video for his next album’s title track, P.H.A.T.W.A. The album is due this May. After this song, and his collaboration with Shadia Mansour, Hamdulilah (Gaza Remix), you can be sure the next album will be a special one. The video is an [...]

Do You See What I See?

I have often wondered how aware international figures are of the depictions of themselves in the media. Has Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seen the Saturday Night Live song “Iran So Far“? Has Obama seen the Turkish reporter talking about him in blackface? Well apparently we have confirmation that Saddam Hussein saw the South Park: Bigger, Longer & [...]

An Iraqi Declaration of Independence

A Creative and Satirical version of an Iraqi Declaration of Independence based off the American Declaration of Independence written in 1776. It was drafted and pieced together by Kabobfest friend, Carlos But first, a clip from six years ago that we’re all very familiar with:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkOCIfNQXP0] إعلان الاستقلال العراقيThe Iraqi Declaration of Independence IN MAJLIS, MARCH [...]

Iraq Throws the Book at Shoe-tosser

Freedom of expression is alive and well in liberated Iraq. An Iraqi court sentenced television journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi to three years in jail for tossing his shoes at then-American president George W. Bush in December. He missed. And everyone knows it was not a physical attack meant to harm, but meant as an act of [...]