June 17, 2008
Posted by yaman
Have you had a chance to think much about borders, besides the pain of waiting in line to have your passport checked and visa approved? If not, take an hour or two out of your time to watch al-Hudud (“The Border”), a Syrian comedy starring Durayyid Lahham and Raghda, and written by esteemed writer, the [...]
Posted by yaman
Since my encounter with Ismail Khaldi, I have been thinking of the crucial defining characteristic of a “token” in political terms. I think I understand it now, after having seen The Spook Who Sat By The Door. Not only does the token in his appointed capacity have no power to change a system’s design or [...]
Posted by yaman
Recognizing that an enemy is human does not make him your friend or cause him to stop his oppression. It does not remove the basic and most important division between friend and enemy, in the Schmittian formulation, which is organized on political lines. It is a sad thing that humanity may need to be “recovered” [...]
June 15, 2008
Posted by yaman
If you have had difficulties typing Arabic text into Photoshop, I have created a Google Code project to develop an open-source script that will provide a solution: Arabic4MacPhotoshop. The Photoshop Script that I wrote will enable Photoshop users to create properly shaped Arabic text in Photoshop graphics. Currently, Arabic text in Photoshop on Mac appears [...]
June 9, 2008
Posted by yaman
“Journalism Is Not a Crime” — this has become the rallying cry of James Karl Buck, a UC Berkeley journalism student who was arrested by Egyptian police while covering demonstrations in Mahalla, Egypt earlier this year. When he was arrested, James posted an update to his Twitter feed informing activists and bloggers around the world [...]
June 2, 2008
Posted by yaman
A few reflections on calling ourselves Arab versus Arab-American, and the responsibility that is demanded of us as beneficiaries of American imperialism either way Is the name of our identity something we should be comfortable with? For those of us who are the children of immigrants, especially from parts of the world that are currently [...]
Up to 52 civilians killed in Nato attack in Helmand, Afghan president’s office says.
How regrettable. How unfortunate. Bombs away!
(Discussion)While anti-Semitism means, rightly, social death, Islamophobia might get you a television spot, a column in a newspaper, or academic tenure.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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The 400 richest families in America, who saw their wealth increase by some $400 billion during the Bush years, have now accumulated $1.27 trillion in wealth. Four hundred families! During the last fifteen years, while these enormously rich people became much richer their effective tax rates were sla…
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A six-year archive of classified military documents to be made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal.
Shoot, you don’t need secret documents to tell you that… but viva WikiLeaks either way.
(Discussion)Israeli parliament passes first of three readings illegalizing boycott activism or advocacy
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But what we’re seeing today is just the unleashing of a long-incubated racism, both institutional and incidental. It doesn’t emanate from the Jewish component of Israeli nationhood. It is informed by the Eurocentric cornerstones of the country: the belief, expressed by Israel’s founding fathers and …
(Discussion)More then twice as many Oscar Grant protestors came out to the Walnut Creek Courthouse to show that nowhere in the bay area will attempts to justify the murder of Oscar Grant go unquestioned. While about a hundred supporters of Johannes Mehserle and law enforcement attended the rally, their numbe…
Racists for Mehserle
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In the US, anti-miscegenation laws were on the books until 1967, when the Supreme Court declared them unconstitutional. That was the same year that Israel began its occupation of Sabbar Kashur’s home in East Jerusalem. Since then, Israelis have fine-tuned their own obsession with racial purity. Only…
Source: madreblogs.typepad.com
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