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revolution in name only

The Nile stretches thousands of miles from the center of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, cutting a swath of fertile green through an endless expanse of desert which we call Egypt. Here are the...

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jordan is a harley-davidson dealership

As I prepare to return to the West, as a I brace myself for re-entry into a world nearly alien to the one I have been living in for a year, I have been coming up bit by bit out of my “Palestinian...

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the strange case of amina abdallah and gay girls in damascus: colonizing...

The web blog of thirty-something “gay girl” Amina Arraf/Abdallah has been removed from public view. The touching story of a half-American lesbian democracy activist living in Damascus was especially...

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it’s getting hotter in palestine

A friend of mine confided that an intifada is coming in September. While I value his analysis over any ink the New York Times decides to spill on the issue, I’ve heard such things from him before....

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MY BLACK FRIENDS

 – from The Guardian story, Academic claims Israeli school textbooks contain bias (ya don’t say!!)

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what’s changed since then?

As’ad AbuKhalil faces off against a liberal actor, a white woman who proclaims herself as a “voice for Middle Eastern Women”, a huffing anticommunist Cuban ex-pat polemicist, and the very...

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left that way is a dead end: a case study in palestine

If history is the alchemy of theory, then communists turned gold into lead in Palestine. When I first arrived in 2009, I was one of those hand-wringing well-meaning comrades who shed tears over the...

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Dirty Wars (2013)

Jeremy Scahill gets out of the tank and walks with the locals  Richard Rowley makes a good documentary – well shot, well narrated,  good storytelling – but there was something that kept nagging me...

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somatophobia IV: consumer-oriented ideology

Does everyone feel so replaceable? First introduced in 2010 after nearly a decade of development, the Roxxxy line now includes RoxxxyGold, RoxxxySilver, and RoxxxyPillow, as well as Rocky. Only...

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Graffiti in Beirut – September 2014

  They call it “conspiracy theory” as an excuse not to listen to what the people are trying to tell them.  

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