March 2012
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February 2012
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A staunchly Zionist professor at the journalism school has been hounding me to take a class of his. We’ve never met (nor has he read any of my pieces) but apparently my writing coach had been talking to him.
I finally give up and respond to his email - he replies, enthusiastic, asks me for some clips and my advisor’s name so he can clear me for some graduate courses. I sent him links...
Items in my Facebook news ticker:
[FACEBOOK NAME REDACTED] commented on 3 Million Fans to get back the Beefy Crunch Burrito’s post on Taco Bell’s wall: “ughh life sucks!”
[FACEBOOK NAME REDACTED] likes Cuddling.
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“Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to...”
– Jamaica Kinkaid - A Small Place
Currently reading.
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“At this time, many young Iranians all over this world are watching us, and I...”
– Iranian film director ASGHAR FARHADI, on accepting his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, A Separation (via inothernews)
Bawling. Tears everywhere. Well-deserved.
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“In May, Malik Al-Mabrouk founded the Brega News Agency as a platform for the...”
– OH YEAH — MALIK IS ONLY FOURTEEN YEARS OLD.
“Journalists should be the fourth estate, giving voices to the people,” [Malik] said. “But a lot of Libyans still don’t understand what a journalist is or does. Because of the Qaddafi regime, people only want to read good news. If there’s anything...
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On Marie Colvin, and the video of her dead body... →
It is shocking, though almost commonplace now, to see friends and relations like this, their agony beamed around the world before you have even been informed, still less taken in the news of their deaths. Instancy is more important than contemplation.
But what is more shocking is that for every Westerner caught in the firestorm, there are thousands of similar images, reflecting similar...
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“We will not open an Israeli embassy in Libya, nor a Libyan embassy in Israel.”
– Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Chairman of the Libyan National Transitional Council, speaking in an interview with AlJazeera today (via victoryormartyrdom)
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“But in “Bad Girls”’ depictions of the Arab world, I see a false, hyped-up...”
– Thanu Yakupitiyage for Hyphen Magazine / M.I.A. and the Real “Bad Girls”
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“The histories of most modern nations are stained with the blood of the...”
– Controversy Over Armenian Genocide Puts U.S. On Shaky Moral Ground
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Building African-Arab connections during Black... →
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Various scattered thoughts on sectarianism,...
verbalresistance:
People can make arguments based on 3rd actors and Imperialism all you like, in defending or ‘contextualising’ the response of the Assad regime, in relation to outside actors… and even if we concede that there are indeed 3rd parties paternalistically trying to manipulate the scenario to their own agenda (USA to neutralise hezbollah/hamas, Iran to maintain an ally, GCC/Saudi to...
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“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I’ve...”
– Edwidge Danticat, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
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January 2012
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Jordan’s military court sentences youth activist... →
But let’s keep championing Queen Rania as a hero of democratic rights in the Arab world ‘cuz she’s pretty and English-speaking and reasons.
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"Akhmed the Terrorist is one of my kids' favorite...
- My professor, just now. (context)
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WatchNew: Andrew Bird - Eyeoneye
I’m listening to this instead of watching the GOP debates and it is so gratifying.
In case you ever forget that Arab lives < American...
Remember that a man who shot and killed unarmed Iraqi women in cold blood will spend no more than 3 months in prison.
Marine who killed unarmed Iraqi women to serve... →
A Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi women and children pleaded guilty Monday to dereliction of duty in a deal that will mean a maximum of three months confinement and end the largest and longest-running criminal case against U.S. troops to emerge from the Iraq War.
Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich of Meriden, Conn., led the Marine squad in 2005 that killed 24 Iraqis in the town of Haditha after a...
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“I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done...”
– Roger Ebert, from Life Itself
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hinduthug asked: Where were you? Were you on campus??
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“A little knowledge taken too far can lead to more obfuscation. Thomas Friedman...”
– This article is about seven months too late, but it still serves it’s purpose. Despite apocalyptic predictions that Libya’s revolution would devolve into “tribal war”, currently Libya’s biggest divisions cut across secular/religious lines not tribal ones. Muftah posted...
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Mali says several killed in Tuareg attack |... →
At least one Malian soldier and several assailants were killed on Tuesday when Tuareg rebels and former soldiers from Libya attacked a town in northern Mali and were pushed back by the army, the government said.
Tuareg nomads, who have fought several rebellions for a sovereign homeland in the Sahara desert, are believed by Malian authorities and other regional leaders to have received an...
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Libya: Two militia clashes in the past month... →
On a civic level, these fatal militia skirmishes, largely isolated, have been disruptive of an otherwise thriving society. But they are indicative of the diminishing power of the National Transitional Council, headed by Mustafa Abduljalil, and the passivity of the executive transitional cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Abdurrahim Al-Keib. And they do suggest a burgeoning regionalism that is...
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“They made two really big boo-boos and now I don’t think think...”
– My dad, on the Packers, explaining the football game to me.
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“Then as now, brown bodies are the raw material through and upon which US...”
– Sherene Seikaly and Maya Mikdashi, Have a Nice Day, Buddy (via zeitvox)
All of this.
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The fact that they were TALIBAN MILITANT FIGHTERS
— If that is a fact at all —
does not somehow absolve those Marines of the guilt and shame of desecrating dead bodies with the filth of their urine. It does not make the act “more moral” or “easier to accept”. It does not make these bodies — Taliban or not — less deserving of a proper cleansing; it does not make their families less deserving of the...
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