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Do You See What I See?
Check out the coincidental resemblance of Osama bin Laden’s compound and the map of historic Palestine. It’s totally meaningless if you ask me.
Meet The Charlie Sheen of Arabia
American comedian actor Charlie Sheen has been making the news all for the wrong reasons. He is been linked to rowdy behavior, prostitutes, drinking and possibly drug activities. You can say
Random Observations from the West Bank
I’m currently nearing the end of a short trip to the West Bank to visit family. While here, I’ve noticed some pretty disturbing and amusing things around me. These are all totally trivial but I thought I’d share nonetheless.
Random Connections
I solved this maths puzzle in 45 minutes. Since posting about Spirit Airlines’ strange Judge Sotomayor-referencing marketing campaign, they sent another ad out. It was one of their ‘Cheapano Fibonacci‘ e-mail promotions. It seems they wanted to remind me of their long-time Gumbaxploition. I get it, so you ridicule all cultures for a quick buck, [...]
A Rare Opportunity
In celebration of KABOBfest’s 500,000th visitor since we started tracking visits and selling IP addresses to Cialis and Nigerian colonels, we are opening up one room in a KABOBfest safe house located in Silver Spring, MD. For the stunningly-low rent of $1800 per month, you can have your own room in one of the best [...]
Beyond Muslim-Jewish Fighting in Israel-Palestine
“A holy fist fight.” Just to show you that a) Christian monks can still throw down and b) Jews and Muslims have no monopoly on whupping on each other, two mobs of Christian sects thrashed each other this morning near Jesus’ tomb. Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks began fighting in the Church of the Holy [...]
Rashid Khalidi’s Bizarro Twin
This is not exactly timely, but… Newsweek blogger Andrew Romano made a reference to McCain’s tactic of ‘guilt by association.’ He reminded the public of Obama’s shady Palestinian acquaintance “Khalid Rashidi”.
Youth and Good Looks
a billboard erected by the state in Tahrir square (downtown cairo) after the april 6th strike, saying “a youth that loves egypt…the serious youth is one that builds, not destroys”. yeah, thanks for that patronizing advice. Meanwhile…from a shop window nearby, a sign saying: salesperson (female) wanted, with previous experience and good looks(!) Can anyone [...]
For Nerds Only – Arabic Scrabble
I couldn’t help but wonder… More images here.I dare someone, anyone, to join the wordgame programmers listserv. Tarboush Tip: Kabobfriend Sarah
Great Prophets on Drugs
An Israeli researcher made international waves after finding that Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he transcribed God’s Ten Commandments directly from the great being itself. That prophets can have world-changing revelations while doped up is not news to us at KABOBfest. Our own personality cult leader, the mysterious Nabeel, shared a recent drug-induced epiphany. [...]
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