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Flash Mob Dance for Palestine in NYC
Commemorate Palestine’ s Land Day with a little song and dance, and a reminder that boycotting Israel is the key to peace.
Guest Post: NYC Sufi Music Festival
The Sufi Music Festival organized by Pakistani Peace Builders (PPB) in Union Square was the closest I’ve gotten to Lahore in three years. And boy, was it a treat. Think Food Street, Salt N’ Pepper, faludas, kulfis, funny but poignant commentaries on rickshaws, Naani force feeding you, freshly picked jaaman, all thrown in one. Then, multiply this by a thousand. And add in some jasmine and rose necklaces and bracelets. And that still doesn’t compare.
The Art of Not Getting it: David Brooks on Israeli Public Culture
The natives found the cowboys’ rudeness understandable.For David Brooks, Israeli obnoxiousness is due to the fact that Israel is “a tough, scrappy country, perpetually fighting for survival.” That is the American Zionist’s impression to be sure, because Palestinians who see Israeli aggressiveness cannot treat it so cutely — it is violent and chauvinistic. Palestinians are [...]
Graf for Gaza Up in NYC
“A Gift for Gaza from a few friends… This can be seen in the South Bronx from the Bruckner Highway.” [Tarboush Tip: Reals via Lamis]
Great Blogs in History: The Giuliani Blog
If you are bored and want to spend your time pouring over the details of Rudy Giuliani’s failed 2008 presidential bid, check out his campaign blog. The blog’s title, “On the Road to the White House” is now poetic only in its tragic inaccuracy. The last entry was January 17, 2008. It makes a pitch [...]
More Political Art in NYC Subway Trains
A standard-sized 8×11 sheet of paper posted on the wall of an Uptown 1 Train. *as a delightful non sequitur: doesn’t my iPhone take surprisingly clear pictures? I can’t lie, I’m slightly impressed (especially given the other bullshit I have had to deal with on this overly [...]
Kuffiyah Kraze Spotting: In My Iris
A poem inspired by the sight a red and black kuffiyahs hanging underneath a “10 minute Cellphone Charge Service” in a tourist’s haven on 6th avenue in between 15th and 14th street: What is the power in a cultural symbol?Do I honor what it wasWhat it becameOr what it is becoming? I said: what is [...]
Slingshot Hip Hop Filmmaker Shoutout Lil ole Kabobfest at NYC Screening!
After 4 and a half years of waiting, of stalkerishly following the filmmaker’s every move, of hounding her down any chance I got, of watching and re-watching the online trailer, of forwarding and re-forwarding the trailer, of blogging anything affiliated with the film’s stars and pr ogres, of feeling like a nerdy Star Wars fan-all [...]
Muslim Connection to NYC Explosion?
Early this morning a small explosion went off on the front of the Armed Forces Career Center in New York’s famous strip of visual diarrhea, Times Square. Care to read my early morning, breaking news analysis? As an Arab-American, I hold secrets in my mystical palms… In case we do not understand what a small [...]
Writings On the Wall-from Caves in From the Basalt Desert in Southern Syira to the Cave-like tunnel at the subway station at Columbus Circle
How does one a sense of the pulse of a city? Sentiments of a people? Hit to the New York City Subway to discover the sentiments of the inescapable “New York Street.” With the artful stroke of the sharpie, here are poetically depicted reactions to Islam and 9/11 on the subway station walls and on [...]
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