The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب
A source on politics, war, the Middle East, Arabic poetry, and art.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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"Satloff is welcome to disagree with the analysis, but manufacturing a quote to make one's point has no place in a reasoned and sch...
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To Arab and Muslim supporters of Obama : he does not want your support. He has made that clear. Please leave him alone.
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U.S. and Shi`ite Politics in Lebanon. So you all must have heard about this incident with the U.S. embassy delegation in South Lebanon. S...
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" For the most extensive medical study of former US detainees published so far, Physicians for Human Rights had doctors and mental heal...
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"The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the Inter...
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In praise of the Saudi King in...The Independent.
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"Zimbabwe's voters told: choose Mugabe or you face a bullet." Saudi voters told: You don't exist.
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" special activities — Activities conducted in support of national foreign policy objectives that are planned and executed so that the...
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Nader wrote: "All parts of Joseph Massad's review article that refer to Gannit Ankori's book _Palestinian Art_ have now been ...
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"Anthropologists have been especially outspoken about the Pentagon’s Human Terrain Teams, a two-year-old program that pairs anthropolog...
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The lousy and clownish secretary-general of the obsolete Arab League, Amr Mousa, said yesterday that "we shall not remain silent vis-a-...
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Adam Sandler on the Arab-Israeli Conflict. I saw the movie Zohan, and although it is a silly and stupid movie (and sometimes I enjoy silly...
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"Two Muslim women at Barack Obama's rally in Detroit on Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers s...
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"From this perspective it's not surprising that a focus should be placed on Israel and the Palestinian plight. After all, the UN h...
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"Former Guantánamo detainees told McClatchy Newspapers that U.S. soldiers and interrogators mistreated the Quran in detention facilitie...
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"The Beer Sheba Magistrate's Court sent the two settlers suspected of assaulting Palestinians in the West Bank a week ago to a thr...
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"THE GOVERNOR of Paktika has lashed out at coalition forces who he blames for the killing of innocent civilians in his province during...
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"Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been ordered by commanding officers "to ignore" incidents of sexual assault a...
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"At a news conference, she praised Israeli women for their natural quality, love of fashion and for being comfortable in their own ski...
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"Now several non-governmental organizations have formally celebrated tabbouleh in an attempt to bring Lebanese together through this u...
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Did you see A.Q. Khan on Al-Arabiya TV yesterday? So he was invited to speak by phone. The Saudi station wanted to ask him about reports re...
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Republican Party antics. (thanks Laleh)
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These are Lebanese Ministers (and they include a minister from the so-called opposition--opposition my potato) holding copies of a new book ...
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Now we know where Thomas Friedman gets his information on the Middle East from. Apparently, he seeks wisdom from the editor of the mouthpie...
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In a newspaper owned by Dubai ruling dynasty, this dude writes this: "governments unwilling to accept the fact the age of controlling ...
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Lebanon has been bragging all week that the first "Facebook" cafe has just opened in Beirut. Headlines stress that it is the firs...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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" In the meantime, Israel and resistance factions have maintained a de facto tahdi’a or “calming.” Yet this is a somewhat deceptive ...
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"Hezbollah’s much anticipated Economic Plan may reshape the Middle East and the populations of Egypt, Jordan, and the Kingdom of Saudi...
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"But their arrival comes with controversy. American acquisition of the documents has been attacked by Iraq's national archivist, wh...
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"For your information: we spoke Arabic at home. Edward knew not only the Mashriqi dialect of Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, but also the...
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For those who doubt the greatness of Lebanon (and this is sponsored by the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism). (thanks Toufic)
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""Last year, 2007, was a record year for blogger arrests, with three times as many as in 2006. Egypt, Iran and China are the most...
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"U.S. professor Richard Falk, barred from Israel after remarks comparing its forces' actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis in wart...
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He may get the Nobel Prize for Peace for this: "He questions whether Islam is even capable of adapting to a post-modern world in the wa...
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"I asked him what it was that finally triggered his split with Ayatollah Khomeini, just a few months before the latter's death in ...
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Pearls of Wisdom from Condoleezza Rice: "“Obviously, in any compromise, there are compromises,” she said."
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I am bracing myself. For months until the elections in November, I will have to endure all this self-congratulations in America about ...
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" The use of Arabic, Azeri, Balochi and Kurdish languages in schools and publications has been strictly prohibited even in their own ...
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When you read An-Nahar newspaper you read such precious items: " A Western intelligence report has warned against the "return of...
Monday, June 16, 2008
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I am not making this up. According to An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, anti-Palestinian (people), anti-Syrian (people) ) news...
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I was unfair yesterday when I mocked Hassan Fattah's newspaper (on behalf of Dubai's ruling dynasty). I said that he did not cover ...
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Flash. Another Success for the Bush Doctrine. " Egyptian security forces detained a schoolboy for several hours after he wrote in an...
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"In the Arab world, shoe flinging is a gesture of extreme disrespect. A notable occurrence of this gesture happened in Baghdad, Iraq i...
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Shoes and American culture: "“People take off their shoe, hand it to me and say, ‘Here, it’s for you,’ ” he told Joey Green, author of...
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Yes, mini-Hariri : it is really adorable and cute how you put the picture of your dead father 3 years after his death on the couch next to y...
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