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29 Oct 09

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Et Tu Brian Whitaker?

  • Octavia Nasr, for potato's sake who began her journalism career with the Lebanese Forces media department in Lebanon
  • if the people are the cause for the oppression, why did the regimes have to resort to mass violence to stay in power and to avoid overthrow?
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15 Sep 09

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

  • To throw the shoe, or not to throw the shoe: a cultural dilemma. Don't you love it when Western reporters explain to their readers differences between their culture and Arab culture? I don't know about you, but I really love it. Here is from the New York Times: "During the argument, heated words were exchanged and shoes were thrown, a severe insult in the Arab world." So throwing a shoe at somebody is a "severe insult in the Arab world" but not anywhere else? How exotic. Tell me more, o culture experts of the New York Times. So today, I wanted to test this theory. So I got out of my house with a bag of shoes: I started throwing them, shoe by shoe, at my neighbor, aiming at the face. My neighbor laughed, and could only say nice things to me as a good neighbor. He then explained: you see, o Arab neighbor, in our American culture, throwing a shoe at somebody is not an insult at all. In fact, it is taken as a sign of affection. I returned back to my house, having learned about American culture, what I knew not before. Thanks to you, New York Times (and your intelligent and culturally informed reporters).
04 Jul 09

Orientalism Watch: Ban the Burqa « Bikya Masr

Mona el-Tahawi continues to demonstrate her stupidity and shallowness. She's a true house negro.

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18 Jun 09

Orientalist bile and ‘unshaven’ Iranians in Forbes « SOUTH / SOUTH

  • Look at the kind of racism Forbes/Wall Street Journal writer Melik Kaylan is spitting here: it’s so open-faced about its civilizational measuring stick that I could not overlook it. Instead of admitting he knows nothing about Iran or Iranians, Kaylan decides instead that impenetrable Iran is ‘oddly asymmetrical to other cultures.’ His logic of geography is Sarah Palin-ish in brilliance: Turks have lived in and next to Iran for millenia, and even they can’t make sense of them! Even Noah Feldman is too moderate for him for putting ‘Islamist political movements [...] in broader historical context.’
  • There’s more. Kaylan is charmed and impressed by Iranians’ ‘good manners,’ women chatting with him and men practically addressing each other in poetry. So great was his knowledge of Iran on his visit that he grew a beard to fit in, only to be told by Tehranis that, ‘It’s not nice.’ Oh.
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13 Feb 09

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: New York Times teaches us about women's rights

"Even for those women for whom college is not an option, the Internet and satellite television have opened windows into the lives of women in the West. “Satellite has shown an alternative way of being,” said Syma Sayah, a feminist involved in social work

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04 Feb 09

Egypt and beyond: Colonial nostalgia and prerevolutionary Egypt

Bradley's take on prerevolutionary Egypt is completely in line with official British imperial history - perhaps not surprising for someone who has been reporting regularly for The Economist and The Financial Times.

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