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Professor Abdallah Haj Yahya of Taybeh Passes Away at the Peak of his Scholarly Output
Translated from Arabs48.com *He published 45 books in the fields of medicine and pharmacology and edited more than fifteen patents all for new medicines * *He was not pushed up by anyone, nor did circumstances help him. He was not rewarded by anyone for his excellence, not even by a pat on the back. Arabs48 [...]
Tayyeb Saleh Passes Away, Migrating to the North (Arabic)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0M_c5zmPtk] Tayyeb Saleh, the Sudanese novelist and writer passed away yesterday in London. He was nearly 80 years old. He left behind a rich literary collection that has a number of novels, the most famous of which is Season of Migration to the North, which gained fame for being one of the first novels to [...]
New Bi-Monthly Electronic Magazine from Haifa
Mada al-Carmel, the Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa, a unique research center that is attempting to create the first intellectual institution run by and for Palestinians inside Israel and give ’48 Palestinian academics a platform and home outside Israeli universities, has just released the first issue of its online magazine, Jadal (meaning [...]
Time Itself Learns from My People
The upcoming Palestinian poet, Tamim al-Barghouthi (Mourid’s son) came out last year with a powerfully Mutanabbi-esque poem (especially the way he personifies Time as a warrior that he/his people conquered) that sums up why the Palestinians will never bow: even Time itself learns from them: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogu9j3KaJtk] My spontaneous (poorly prepared, literal) translation of the first [...]
On So-Called “Summits”
No one sums it up better than the Iraqi poet Muzaffar al-Nawab, who specializes in poetry insulting all the Arab leaders without exception: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vydfaai055k] My impromptu (literal) translation of the first stanza:Summits, Summits, SummitsGoats and SheepHis Highness the Guinea Pig and the Royal Eweand a Donkey in his old ageand so the Session begins:We are [...]
Who Says Islamofascists Don’t Have a Sense of Humor?
Because everyone needs to let loose sometimes.
Sikh Solidarity with Palestine Statement
January 12, 2009 Kal kaati raaje kaasaa-ee dharma pankh kar udriaa.Koorh amaavas sach chandramaa deesai naahee kah charhiaa. (This age is a knife, kings are butchers; justice hath taken wings and fled.In this completely dark night of falsehood the truth is never seen to rise.) – Guru Nanak Sahib, *Sri Guru Granth Sahib*, p. 145 [...]
Guest Post: Microbus Blues
Can they not cross their legs? by Sarah Dear man on the microbus in Damascus, Please do not spread your legs as widely as possible when sitting on a two-person bench. The seat is not just for you. There is no reason to make the person sharing the bench next to you huddle against the [...]
The “Arab Culture” and the Shoe: Let’s Put on our Orientalist Anthropological Musing Caps On Shall We?
The official play-by-playBush: “Shukran Jazeera” (hehehe)First Shoe: “This is a kiss goodbye, you son of a dog (Ibn kalb)” Second Shoe: “this is for the widows, the orphans, and all those killed in Iraq.” Not only did those comments and the conjoined hurling of shoes spark what would later be known as “shoe-gate,” but it [...]
The Hand…A Many Fingered Sword
Guest post by KABOBfriend Sarah. Sticking it to the man…with your hands! Sometimes, men don’t like to shake women’s hands. It’s not terribly common, depending on which circles one turns in, but when a man doesn’t want to greet a woman with a handshake, he normally puts his hand over his heart instead of grasping [...]
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