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Internet Freedom: Finding The Right Balance
An important debate about freedom of the Internet has been brewing for years in India (I covered, back in January, a similar discussion in Egypt here). The debate intensified recently as threatening...
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Closing Liberal Koshari on August 31, 2012
I started Liberal Koshari eight months ago, and I have loved the time I spent after work blogging and later spending hours debating other bloggers on Twitter. However, I’m going to close Liberal...
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Nefertiti Showing Her Bust in Germany
I usually get a bitter-sweet feeling when I read about Egyptian monuments being restored and properly presented to the word by Western museums. A perfect example is Germany's Neues Museum latest...
View ArticleToday's Hero: Saudi Shura Council Member Al-Buleihi
Saudi Shura Council Member Ibrahim Al-Buleihi has big balls. In the video above he lectures, in a progressive tone, his interviewer with honesty, objectivity and conviction. I have no idea what...
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Poem of the Day: Today's Menu
This short poem by Charles Simic appears in the September 2012 issue of The New Republic.
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Coming Soon: Jews of Egypt
We almost have a date for the release of Jews of Egypt. The documentary, directed and produced by Egyptians, has a tentative date for October or November 2012. Let's hope the film is eventually...
View ArticleDo Sex Strikes Ever Work?
Yes, but mostly as a means of garnering media attention. That's according to L.V. Anderson. Tahrir next Friday in the buff? Excerpt from The Slate story: Generally, sex strikes—known in activist...
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Syria, Qatar, Al Jazeera and Qaradawi!
Walid Muallem, Syria's FM, sat with Robert Fisk and shared this juicy nugget about Al Jazeera and Qaradawi. Is he lying to punish Al Jazeera for its coverage of the Syrian civil war? Perhaps. Time to...
View ArticleNow Playing: Abel Korzeniowski
Try the soundtracks for W/E and a Single Man. Amazing music composed by Abel Korzeniowski. Also available on Souncloud here.
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Quote of the Day: Flannery O'Connor
"When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax a little and use more normal ways of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make...
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How to protect a fragile democracy from a strong military?
That's the question Steve Saideman tries to answer in his post "Democracy and Coups: Taking Civilian Control of the Military for Granted". Excerpt:But the journey to ensure fragile democracies are not...
View ArticleAswan in 1911
Amazing colored footage of Aswan 100 years ago. Wish the music was not that irritating. Ht: Egyptian Chronicles
View ArticleMusic I Listen To While Blogging: Safar Barlik
Mysterious electro beats from Lebanon with a longing for the past.
View ArticleFeel Good Clip of the Day: Tiger Playing with "Lunch"
Not sure what's a cub doing in a house (or is it an animal shelter?) with family and a dog around. They are both cute and fun to watch play together.
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Lieberman's Message to Morsi
Haaretz has this interesting quote from Israel's Foreign Minister: Image: Israel postage stamp, civil aviation (1959)
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What Determines the Emergence and Survival of Democracy?
To answer the question, the authors of a study published by Journal of Conflict Resolution apply extreme bounds analysis to test the robustness of fifty-nine factors proposed in the literature,...
View ArticleMusic I Listen To While Blogging: Amal Murkus
According to Wikipedia Murkus was born and raised in the Arabtown of Kafr Yasifin Galilee, and has devoted her career to promoting Palestinian music and culturein Israel and abroad. Murkus has been...
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27 Million Slaves
Alter Net has a story about slavery in the world today, not history books or movies. Excerpt with some disturbing numbers (and notice the gender split):
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Dear Gina: Try Walking In Our Shoes
The world's richest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, shares a “let them eat cake” moment with the world. Given that Rinehart inherited her money, the below excerpt from her hypocritical...
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