Tag: middle east
member name: The Militant Moderate
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March 07, 2008 05:52 PM EST --
I finished 1967 . It is not an easy read unless you are very familiar with the names of the leading Israeli politicians, which I am not, from this era.
It does cast a new light on the 1967 War . . .
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August 01, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
There has been an email going around usually titled “Allah or Jesus?” It is based on a claim made by Rick Mathes on the website of the Mission Gate Prison Ministry about a confrontation he allegedly . . .
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September 17, 2007 07:16 AM EDT --
I have just finished The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage by David Lamb, which is an excellent read. The Los Angeles Times accurately describes the book as "Perhaps the best effort to examine . . .
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September 20, 2007 07:41 AM EDT --
Two years ago I took a wonderful class on Islam at LLI. The facilitator had lived for several years in the Middle East and was fluent in Arabic. I threw myself into this with a lot of independent . . .
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September 30, 2007 09:02 PM EDT --
My first LLI class on Arab Countries covered Lebanon and it was great.
Lebanon is a mess. Once a cosmopolitan center, Beirut was a tourist destination, the Paris of the Mideast and the Arab banking . . .
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March 29, 2008 02:59 PM EDT --
Cities of Salt begins in 1930s in the Wadi Al-Uyoun, where life hasn't changed much in the last thousand years. Then the Americans arrive. Soon the inhabitants are all told they must leave and village . . .
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June 10, 2008 08:49 PM EDT --
For many years the Palestinians were invisible to most Americans. With the creation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and, later, Hamas many of us came to see them as crazed terrorists. In . . .
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June 25, 2009 06:01 PM EDT --
I just learned about Citizentube which has many videos from Iran
http://www.youtube.com/citizentube
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October 01, 2007 08:53 AM EDT --
I can understand why some people did not feel that Ahmadinejad should be part of Columbia's "Distinguished Speakers Series". Iran is a repressive regime hostile to the United . . .
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June 24, 2009 07:35 PM EDT --
But it appears to me that the mullah's in Iran will crush the opposition and the repercussions with the West will be minimal. It will be Tienniman Square all over again. Realistically, I am not . . .
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September 17, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
In 1956 Elizabeth Warnock Fernea accompanied her husband, who was doing postgraduate work in anthropology, to the village of El Nahra, Iraq. For nearly two years, they lived as guests of Sheik . . .
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October 27, 2007 02:00 PM EDT --
An interesting article in this week's Time.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1671633,00.html
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November 10, 2007 11:17 AM EST --
Yesterday in my Arab countries class we discussed Iraq. It is much worse than I thought, and I have never been an optimist. One thing I didn't know about the Kurds in northern . . .
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November 12, 2007 07:40 PM EST --
Another bogus email
See - http://www.snopes.com/rumors/budweiser.asp
This is TRUE!
How Budweiser handled those who laughed at
those
who died . . .
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January 12, 2008 08:26 PM EST --
I just finished Exile , by Richard North Patterson. The assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister by a Palestinian suicide bomber in San Francisco sets off a well written who done it. The plot, . . .
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June 20, 2009 07:58 AM EDT --
The St. Louis Post Dispatch just ran an article about Windows on Iran, Explorations of Persian culture and politics , a very interesting newsletter published by Fatemeh Keshavarz, an Iranian professor . . .
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October 02, 2007 08:19 PM EDT --
Test your knowledge of the Middle East
With this map.
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October 04, 2007 08:29 AM EDT --
I finished The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright, an excellent history of Al Qaeda and of the American efforts to prevent the inevitable attack on the United States. Beginning with Sayyid Qutb, the . . .
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October 05, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
Today we studied Iran.
Much more complex than what is generally presented in the US media.
Part of the class is like a travel log. The facilitator has visited all of these countries, she was in . . .
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October 09, 2007 05:58 PM EDT --
I just watched Control Room. Now I have to read Mission Al Jazeera.
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