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Arabian nights, Christmas-style 28 Dec 2009 | 06:25 am
Santa stockings are a great source of fun for our family. Stocking stuffers run the gamut from nail files and travel earplugs to magazines and golf balls. And they include goofier thinking-of-you item...
blogs and bedouin 26 Dec 2009 | 08:05 am
Merry Christmas to those of you who are celebrating today! And to those of you who blog, a less merry bit of news from Kuwait: a proposal to increase the government’s power to monitor blogs produced i...
Levantine literature: translated by the enemy. 25 Dec 2009 | 02:24 am
Merry Christmas Eve to those of you who are celebrating, and for those of you commemorating Ashoura, I hope that it is an opportunity for reflection for you. (And I hope that you are as pleased as I a...
minding the social gap in Damascus 22 Dec 2009 | 07:32 am
Hello from not-very-good-at-keeping-up-with-blogging land. I interrupt this general blogging hiatus to share a very interesting article on Damascus’ high-end consumer culture. Those of you who have sp...
moving from “poor” to “petty”: from مسكين to mesquin 27 Nov 2009 | 01:03 am
Last night I rang in Thanksgiving Eve by reading a little novel with some phrases en francais. One of them used a word that I hadn’t seen before – but which looked a great deal like a word I knew in A...
moving from “poor” to “petty”: from مسكين to mesquin 26 Nov 2009 | 08:03 pm
Last night I rang in Thanksgiving Eve by reading a little novel with some phrases en francais. One of them used a word that I hadn’t seen before – but which looked a great deal like a word I knew in A...
that old black magic … 26 Nov 2009 | 10:26 am
Several years ago, my aunt pointed out something I had never noticed: the great frequency with which articles about – and editorials against – magic and sorcery appear in Gulf newspapers. I thought of...
“When the midnight camel leaves for Tripoli…”: Bing Crosby’s “The Road to Lebanon” 24 Nov 2009 | 02:24 am
Inspired by QN’s recent musical turn (“it took five minutes,” he claimed when I spoke with him yesterday. “Much less time than researching and writing another analysis for the blog.”), I thought I’d s...
taking the “advertising cake”: today’s Arab satellite channels 16 Nov 2009 | 05:25 am
I’m not a big television watcher: I don’t even own a television. But I do watch the television industry – particularly that in the Arab world. This weekend, The National, Abu Dhabi’s well-funded Engli...
bar by consensus 15 Nov 2009 | 12:47 am
Now that Lebanon has a government, its time to celebrate. But where to go to toast the new cabinet? In honor of the consensus government, how about a consensus bar? how about … mybar? Of course, th...
