I am not making this up. Two people were arrested in Lebanon on charges of practicing Liwat (same sex sex) in a car. Human Rights Watch issued a strong statement blaming the Syrian regime.
(Iraqis react to Bush's "liberation" of their country).
(At the American University of Beirut in 2010)
(Angry Arab speaks at Burj Barajnah Palestinian Refugee Camp, June '04).
Appearances and Speaking Engagements
- South Africa, August 2012
- Berekely City College, Oct. 5
- University of Chicago, Feb. 19
- University of British Columbia, March 1st
- Arizono State Univ, March
- Stuttgart, May 10-14
- Bowdoin College, Maine, May
- Kuwait University, May
As'ad's Library
- -The Battle For Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power
- -Bin Laden, Islam, and America's New "War on Terrorism"
- -Historical Dictionary of Lebanon
- -America and the New "War on Terrorism": Who Split the World into Two? (Arabic)
- Prolonged Wars: A Post-Nuclear Challenge (Chapter: The Longevity of the Lebanese Civil War)(Click to read!)
- -Shattered Illusions: Analyzing the War on Terrorism (Chapter: Orientalism, Alive and Well)
- -Between the State and Islam (Chapter: Against the Taboos of Islam: Anti-Conformist Tendencies in Contemporary Arab Islamic Thought)
- -The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide: The Middle East and North Africa (Chapter on women in Saudi Arabia)
- -Women in the Middle East
- -It is War. (Arabic)
- -Terrorism or Resistance? Against the Criteria of Bin Laden or Arab Neo-Cons(Arabic)
- -Lebanon and Syria: searching for a map?
- -In Their Memory, and Not in His. (Arabic)
- -Features (and virtues) of French Secularism(Arabic)
- -The Status of Zionism, in Europe and US(Arabic)
- -Sex and the Suicide Bomber
- -On Democratic Party Elections
- -Any Objection to US Violation of Lebanese Sovereignty?
- -Repercussions of American fumbling in Iraq
- -The One Who Returned, By Crowning.
- -After Arafat
- -Who is He?
- -What Bashir Gemayyel Represents: the Legacy of Lebanese Fascism
- -Incoherence of the Opposition: Production of Sectarian Dynasties
- -The Folklore of Lebanese Patriotism: What the Fluttering Flags Could not Hide
- -Against Francophonie: The Falsity of Lebanese Culture
- -How do we Stay Arab, How do we Stay Human? Or, Challenging Globalization
- -U.S.-Saudi Arabia relations
- -The Islam Industry
- -Muhsin Ibrahim and the Repercussions of Self-Criticism: So as Not to Unfairly Criticize Thy Self
- -Critique of Arab Media Coverage of the War, TV
- -Walid Jumblat: For and Against
- -Pierre Laval: Statesman
- -My Eulogy of Joseph Samhah: He died just as He lived: Hands Unbound, Free
- Wasfi At-Tal: the Authentic Arab Nationalist
- When Ahmad Hajj Remembered Mistakes of Nasser
- In Defense of Conspiracy Theory
- Islamic Rule in Gaza? Oh, What Horror!
- Who Can Rescue the Shi`ites (Except Sa`d Hariri)?
- Did the Aggression on Lebanon have Aides?
- The Triumph of Phalangist Ideology
- Pakistan...First
- Two Phases in the History of Arab Liberalism
Media Appearances
AlJazeera Appearances' Transcripts
The Forgotten Victims
Chicken McNuggets in the News
Mother Teresa Miracle Watch
Comic by Terry Furry, reproduced from "Heard the One About the Funny Leftist?" by Cris Thompson, East Bay Express
As'ad's Bio
Most Circulated Posts
- Don't Cry for Me Mesopotamia: No Tears for Saddam
- -The Kingdom of Heaven (and of Plunder...)
- -The capital of ranking: Lebanon
- -American Left and the Middle East
- -Hariri's assasination
- -The Amir and Me
- -Angry Arab review of "Fahrenhiet 9/11"
- -The Angry Arab plan for the rescue of Iraq
- -The story of an Iraqi boy who looks like Bush
- -Hithcens vs. Galloway: The big debate
- -Sushar Rosky, lest she die namelessly...
- -The Angry Arab guide to Middle East Media
- -Bomb Them or Talk to Them?
- -What did Mehlis Know, and How did He know it?
- -Angry Candidate? No way
- -Arab Officials Don't Commit Suicide
- -Spielberg on Munich
- -Anniversary of the Lebanese Civil Wars
- -The Demise of Fath: And What is Hamas?
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