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<strong>Book: Cairo Unzipped by Mona Fuad</strong></h3>
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<a href="http://thearabdailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Cairo-Front-Cover.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #91204d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="9780578110394-Perfect.indd" class="size-large wp-image-2228 alignleft" height="400" scale="0" src="http://thearabdailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Cairo-Front-Cover-266x400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 10px 8px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="266" /></a>It’s the 1940’s and the desert sun is setting in Cairo. This is the scene of Layla’s story. A beautiful, young girl forced into prostitution at age 12 by her own mother, Layla dreams of freedom in Europe. While set more than 70 years ago, Layla’s dream is not far from that of those living in today’s modern-day, protest-laden Egypt.</div>
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Layla’s story is the focus of <b>Mona Fuad</b>’s fascinating new book, <b><i>Cairo Unzipped.</i></b> A friend of Layla’s and former Egyptian movie star, Fuad chronicles Layla’s meteoric rise during a revolutionary period of Egyptian history.</div>
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Due to the turmoil in Europe, Egypt became a melting pot of Europeans from nations, being put to the fire, by the Nazis. Layla, with no money and fewer options, would not only survive the life of a call girl during this tumultuous time, but also rise to become the mistress of the most powerful man in Egypt, King Farouk.</div>
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While focused primarily on Layla’s story of strength and overcoming adversity, <b><i>Cairo Unzipped</i></b> also shares a bit of Fuad’s life.</div>
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Very much the opposite of Layla’s troubled youth, Fuad, born in Alexandria, was a once crowned Miss Egypt and could be found in many Egyptian and American films, including The Ten Commandments.</div>
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Upon leaving show business and moving to America with her husband, Fuad founded the first acrylic nail salon in Dallas and helped define the landscape of the now over $35 billion nail industry.</div>
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Mona Fuad was born in Alexandria, Egypt and, at age 16, won a national beauty contest and would go on to become a future Miss Egypt. Her career then turned to film as Mona appeared in both Egyptian and American films, including The Ten Commandments and The Spy. After moving to the U.S. with her husband, Mona, who speaks six languages, founded the first acrylic nail salon in Dallas and helped define the landscape of the now over $35 billion nail industry.</div>
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Mona and Layla, the focus of her new book<i> Cairo Unzipped</i>, have been lifelong friends, although their roads to success have been vastly different. They still remain friends, now in the U.S., today.</div>
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For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.cairounzipped.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #91204d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">www.cairounzipped.com</a>.</div>
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<i>Cairo Unzipped </i>is available on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cairo-Unzipped-Mona-Fuad/dp/0578110393/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387579420&sr=8-1&keywords=cairo+unzipped" style="border: 0px; color: #91204d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cairo-unzipped-mona-fuad/1114941632?ean=9780578110394" style="border: 0px; color: #91204d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BarnesandNoble.com</a> and <a href="http://www.cairounzipped.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #91204d; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">www.cairounzipped.com</a>.</div>
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The most intriguing and unusual feature of this story is the degree to which the memories and tragic personal history of a beloved grandmother, come to haunt –perhaps possess would be a better word–the consciousness of her grand-daughter Alexia. While her mother Carla pursues a career, Alexia and her twin brother John find themselves more and more in the care of their elderly grandmother, the Rose-Anne Rilley of the book’s title. Rose-Anne is the gentle Grandmother whose violent rape, covered up and papered over, continues to fester like a corrosive wound, finally emerging to darken the life of a beautiful girl in the family’s third generation . Her benevolent care endears her to both children, the twins Johnny and Alexia. Both children love Rose-Anne, but it is Alexia who becomes increasingly her confidante and companion during her final illness.</div>
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A Palestinian immigrant who came to America with only $71 in his pocket, Shami was born just north of the City of Jerusalem near Ramallah. He is the epitome of the American immigrant success story. He was dedicated to one goal, creating the best hair product company with the most advanced American technology based on his principles of “Education, Environment and Ethics.”<br />
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Today, Farouk Systems employs more than 2,000 people and distributes products in over 100 countries around the world. He used some of his successes to help his community, donating to Palestinian causes and previously serving on the national board of the moderate and respected American Task Force on Palestine in Washington D.C.<br />
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A committed American, Shami broke into the public consciousness in a big way, announcing his candidacy for elective office in 2009. Shami set his sights high, using his wealth to run for Governor of Texas in the Democratic primary. He lost to the more seasoned political pro, Bill White, the two-term former mayor of Houston and former Deputy Secretary for Energy in the Bill Clinton administration. White went on to lose the governor’s race to Republican Gov. Rick Perry.<br />
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But he became a familiar name when he leveraged his friendship and business associations with the popular New York real estate magnate and TV personality Donald Trump, who introduced Shami in May 2011 episode of Celebrity Apprentice. Contestants were required to come up with a marketing campaign for Farouk System products. That was followed up with a second appearance on the 4th episode of Trumps popular All Star Celebrity Apprentice.</div>
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Just weeks ago, Shami reinforced his name recognition as a sponsor and judge on the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant. Farouk Systems was a presenting hair care sponsor of the internationally celebrated beauty pageant. He appeared along with rock superstar Steven Tyler, Olympic Gold Medal figure skater Tara Lipinski and Carol Alt, the former supermodel and health specialist on the far rightwing FOX Cable TV network.</div>
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Who is Farouk Shami? Probably one of the best known American Palestinians in the country. And this year, he released his official biography, self-published, “American by Choice” which offers a fascinating look into the immigrant life of a successful American Palestinian, overcoming prejudice, illness and rivalries.</div>
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It’s hard to be a Palestinian and not be somewhat controversial. His success has forced mainstream America to accept him as an equal and he often found himself next to controversial leaders including former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, which he discusses in the opening chapter of his book. “I was born in Palestine, but I was made in the USA,” he writes proudly.</div>
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In accepting a recognition as “Entrepreneur of the Year” at a Washington D.C. gala, Gingrich acknowledged Shami’s Palestinian heritage, even though in a high profile public appearance two years earlier when he claimed that “Palestinians” were “an invented people,” one of the most ridiculous and politically motivated comments of the 21st Century.</div>
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In “American by Choice,” Shami offers a frank story of his family and his life, beginning with his birth in Palestine, introducing us to his parents and his brothers, and their constant travels to the United States. His experiences during the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War are as chilling to read today as they were to live through years ago. Yet through it all, Shami managed to remain loyal to his cultural heritage while committed to his adopted home country, America.<br />
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“What a privilege it is for anyone to live in America and experience the American Dream,” Shami writes with pride. </div>
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“Perhaps it means more to me as an American by choice rather than an American by birth. I think many Americans take for granted what this great nation offers them. It is the only country many of them know. There is nothing wrong with that but having experienced the alternatives allows me to see the virtues of America all the more vividly.”<br />
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But the real story is Shami’s success as a businessman, something that is shared by many in America. Shami was summoned by then President George W. Bush and he re-equipped the White House hair salon when First Lady Laura Bush would have her hair done. Laura Bush loved the products and treatment so much she recommended it to her in-laws and the next thing Shami knew was he was being summoned by former President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush, too.<br />
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His professional services were also sought by Jordan’s Royal Family, providing hair care products to Princess Alia and meeting her father King Abdullah who gave Shami two Arabian stallions, named Naseer and Hewar. In 2006, Shami organized an international conference in Amman Jordan that brought hairdressers from around the world and from Middle East countries.<br />
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Shami offers you a front row seat into his personal and business life, one that is well worth knowing. How Shami built Farouk Systems by hand is an amazing story of entrepreneurial success. It’s not a Palestinian story, a Jewish story or an Irish story, but rather the story of the American Dream.<br />
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“American by Choice” is a fast and easy read. It’s written from the perspective of a humble but very proud immigrant American who happens to be Arab. I enjoyed it very much.<br />
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Shami has moved across many stages in his life and I expect there will be a Book II someday because clearly, his motivation shows he is not done achieving that Dream that we all share equally. His pride in being Arab comes through loud and clear and should resonate with everyone who identifies with the immigrant experience, which for most Americans is their true history.</div>
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Author Hedy Habra has penned another great read, the book “Flying Carpets” a collection of 21 short stories that take you through Lebanon and Egypt and mysticism, supernatural and Arab culture.</div>
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The stories offer a deep insight into Middle Eastern Arabian culture and they entertain in a refreshing style of easy to read writing, something lost on many Middle East writers, especially today. “Flying Carpets” offers a reprieve from the turmoil of the Middle East today and provide a relaxing and sometimes exciting tapestry of friendships, love and rivalries, internal tortures and fears, and travel from Khan Khalili to Achrafieh.</div>
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A courageous story about a Christian Girl and Muslim boy fall in love in Lebanon. People wondering about what could have been in life, something everyone does in daydream or reality. And so much more.</div>
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If you want to escape the pain of the Middle East conflict, and yet still remain in the Arab soul, Hedy’s imagination and stories offer a great respite. It was a very fast read, something I could have continued to pursue with 100 more stories.</div>
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Hedy strives for and achieves the Arab tradition of storytelling, which is far more fascinating that just the stories she tells in the 212 pages of “Flying Carpets.” Ms. Habra (Sabbagh) is of Lebanese origins born in Egypt which explains the settings selected for many of the opening stories. She received a BS in Pharmacy while in Egypt and has her degrees in literature from Western Michigan University, where she is currently a teacher.</div>
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I enjoyed it a lot. I think you will too, especially if you live and breath “Arab.”</div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Butchers tongue-in-cheek personal narrative is simply irresistible</b><br />
Her more than 130 recipes yield, in addition to giggles, a great deal of wisdom<br />
Not only is almost every recipe accompanied by elegant color photographs, but <b>each recipe features enough patter to coax anyone into the try it, youll like it mindset.</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Following the great success of Sally Butchers last cookbook, <i>The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian: Modern Recipes from Veggiestan</i>, Interlink is delighted to be publishing Butchers third cookbook, <b><i>New Middle Eastern Street Food: Snacks, Comfort Food, and Mezze from Snackistan</i></b>. Her two previous books were both highly praised<i>Persia in Peckham</i> was selected as Cookbook of the Year by the <i>London Times</i>, and <i>The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian</i> was shortlisted for Cookbook of the Year by the UK Guild of Food Writers.</span></div>
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With over 100 delicious <i>mezze</i>-style recipes, <b><i>New Middle Eastern Street Food</i></b> is an irresistible collection of healthy and easy-to-prepare recipesclassic street foods like <i>kebabs</i>, <i>dolmeh</i>, <i>falafel</i>, <i>kibbeh</i>, <i>shawarma, pulaos</i>, salads,<i> </i>egg dishes and meat pies, pickled veggies, tagines, hummus, couscous, rice, bean and lentil dishes, as well as Sallys own creations like <i>Lamb-Stuffed Prunes</i>, <i>Orange Blossom and Mint Lemonade</i>, <i>Sweet Tabouleh Salad</i>, <i>Zucchini and Eggplant Cake</i>, <i>Israeli Veggie Dagwood</i>, and <i>Spinach with Rhubarb and Pomegranate</i>. As co-owner of one of Londons most popular Middle Eastern food emporiums, Persepolis, Sally Butchers love and knowledge of Middle Eastern cuisine is extensive, and Snackistan, her imaginary country, is one we will all want to visit again and again.</div>
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This new addition to our international cookbook collection will delight your palate, expand your culinary repertoire, and make you laugh out loud. Butchers culinary expertise, her sense of humor and wit, and Yuki Sugiuras stunning color photography combine to create an exuberant and mouth-watering read.</div>
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<i>Reading this book was like sitting down with a good, well traveled foodie friend and a funny one at that this is a cookbook that informs and delights the reader even as it surprises and enchants<br />
</i><b><i>Veggiestan may be a made up country, but once you get there, you will want to visit over and over again.</i></b><i></i><b>Christian Science Monitor</b></div>
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<b><i>Snacks, Comfort Food, and Mezze</i></b></div>
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<b><i> from Snackistan</i></b></div>
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By Sally Butcher</div>
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The indomitable Sally Butcher is back and at it again after the success of her wonderful and well-received cookbook, <i>The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian.</i> <b><i>New Middle Eastern Street Food: </i> <i>Snacks, Comfort Food, and Mezze from Snackistan</i></b> is a mouth-watering collection of over 100 quick, healthy, and easy-to-prepare, andmost importantlydelicious recipes from Snackistan, a fictitious land where tummies are always full, and theres a slightly naughty smile on every face. It features simple fare that people actually eat on a daily basis: street food, dishes prepared at home, cooked to share with friends, or to look forward to indulging in at the end of the week.</div>
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<b><i>New Middle Eastern Street Food</i></b> picks out the Middle Easts most exciting street foods and mezze dishes, together with a variety of homey, simple snack recipes elicited from family and friends. Chapters include Nuts and Nibbles, Fishy Things, Meat on Sticks, Meat Not on Sticks, Salady Stuff, Hot Veggie Dishes, Mostly Carbs, Puds, and Something to Wash it Down With. The burst of flavors is intoxicating, as is Sallys trademark wit and attention to detailmaking <b><i>New Middle Eastern Street Food</i></b> a must-have for all Middle Eastern food enthusiasts. Welcome to Snackistan, please have your boarding passes ready!</div>
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<span class="s2"><b>Sally Butcher</b> is a London-based food writer and cookbook author. She and her Iranian husband own Persepolis, the acclaimed Persian food store in London. Her most recent book <i>The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian</i> (also published by Interlink) has been hugely successful and was shortlisted for the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Book of the Year Award.</span></div>
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by Sally Butcher</div>
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Publication Date: January 2014</div>
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Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.</div>
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Ethnic Cooking <b> </b>7 ½ x 9 ¾ <b> </b>208 pages <b> </b>full-color photos </div>
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ISBN 978-1-56656-958-3 hardcover $30.00</div>
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Carrots with Cardamom and Cumin</div>
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Carrots, cumin, and cardamom are a cozy threesome, oft found together on the pages of recipe books. Its a relationship that clearly works, so who am I to argue?</div>
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3 large carrots</div>
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1½ tsp ground cardamom</div>
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1 tsp ground cumin</div>
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½ tsp coarse ground black pepper</div>
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½ tsp ground sea salt</div>
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2 tbsp sunflower or canola oil</div>
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Preheat the oven to 375°F/190°C.</div>
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Peel the carrots and slice them very thinly. A mandoline would be handy here, although I find them scary and dangerous. The dextrous among you may well be able to shave off decent slices with a vegetable peeler.</div>
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Mix the spices and seasoning together with the oil, then toss the carrots in the mixture, turning them over until they are all coated. Spread them out on a baking tray and bake for 67 minutes, or until they are starting to brown and curl at the edges.</div>
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Cool them on a wire rackthey will crisp up more as they cool. These are pretty addictive on their own, but also team well with <i>houmous</i>. They keep for a few days in a plastic tub.</div>
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Mother-in-Laws <i>Tas Kebab</i></div>
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Every country/province/village/household makes it differently, but the principles are the same: meat or chicken is layered with vegetables and fruit and baked in a fragrant tomato sauce. In Turkey, <i>tas</i> means bowl, and <i>tas kebab</i> is usually prepared contained within an inverted bowl in the oven: the Persian version we offer here is much simpler. Unlike most of the <i>khoreshts</i> (stews) of Iran, <i>tas kebab</i> is usually eaten with bread as a comforting supper: the leftovers make for great anytime snack food. It is a hearty fare, but economical, as the ingredients are varied according to season and market price. I usually make it with the leftover pieces of vegetables in the bottom of the fridge. It is lovely with cooking apples or quince, when they are available. My mother-in-law normally uses chicken (as here), but occasionally she will prepare it with baby lamb <i>kufteh</i>.</div>
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2 onions, sliced</div>
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1 leek, roughly chopped</div>
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3 sticks celery, cut into fat chunks</div>
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1 chicken, skinned and cut into 8 pieces</div>
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1 tsp ground turmeric</div>
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1 tsp lime powder</div>
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salt and freshly ground black pepper</div>
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2 carrots, cut into fat sticks</div>
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1 green bell pepper, cut into chunks</div>
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68 mushrooms, wiped</div>
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½ small butternut squash, peeled and cut into chunks</div>
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3 medium waxy potatoes, peeled and cut into slabs</div>
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1 large eggplant, cut into ¾in/2cm cubes</div>
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1 cup/7oz/200g prunes (soaked if necessary)</div>
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2 tbsp good tomato paste</div>
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1 can (14oz/400g) chopped tomatoes</div>
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My, this is easy. But I might have mentioned that already. Preheat the oven to 375°F/190°C.</div>
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Layer the onions, leek, and celery into the bottom of a fairly deep baking tray. Arrange the chicken on top and sprinkle it with the spices and seasoning. Dot the rest of the vegetables and the prunes evenly around and on top of the chicken.</div>
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Mix the tomato paste, tomatoes, and olive oil together, and add the cold water. Pour the liquid over the chicken and vegetables, cover the tray properly with foil, and bake for around 1 hour 10 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through and the vegetables are tender. Serve with warm bread.</div>
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Recipe(s) from <b><i>New Middle Eastern Street Food: Snacks, Comfort Food, and Mezze from Snackistan </i></b>by Sally Butcher</div>
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Praise for Sally Butchers Previous Cookbook</div>
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<b><i>The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Modern Recipes from Veggiestan</i></b></div>
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<b>Shortlisted for Cook Book of the Year by the UK Guild of Food Writers</b></div>
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<b></b>Novice and experienced chefs who have little interest in Middle Eastern vegetarianism should, nevertheless,<b> read this book</b><br />
<b>simply irresistible</b><br />
Her more than 130 recipes yield, in addition to giggles, a great deal of wisdom. Side bars<br />
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<b>each recipe features enough patter to coax anyone into the try it, youll like it mindset</b>. The range is enticing.<b><i>Booklist</i></b></div>
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<b>It's rare for me to read a cookbook cover to cover, but a trip to <i>Veggiestan</i></b><br />
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Knowledgeable as all get out, Ms. Butcher is a London-based food writer who, with her husband, runs the renowned Persepolisa Middle Eastern food store where<br />
her enthusiasm and tenacity is in no short supply. This comes bursting through the pages of her new booktransforming scholarly authenticity into joy<br />
<b>the array of recipes from elsewhere in <i>Veggiestan</i> is dazzling in their scope and in their use of exotic (but findable) ingredients.</b><b><i>Huffington Post</i></b></div>
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If you are tired of your go-to vegetarian meals, try a visit to "Veggiestan....<b>Leafing through the book, I was transported across the region with stories, fun facts, and recipes making use of rose petals, saffron, and tumeric</b><br />
<b>Reading this book was like sitting down with a good, well traveled foodie friend and a funny one at that</b><br />
<b>Indeed, this is a cookbook that informs and delights the reader even as it surprises and enchants</b><br />
<b>it's perfect for cooks who are tired of their go-to vegetarian meals</b>...<b>Veggiestan may be a made up country, but once you get there, you will want to visit over and over again.</b><b><i>Christian Science Monitor</i></b></div>
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Veggiestan, home of delicious dishes<br />
a cookbook that demonstrates a love of vegetarian cooking, a deep understanding of the flavors of the Middle East and a wicked sense of fun<br />
a land of tradition and innovation, a place of joy, energy and really tasty food<br />
<b>This is a volume to cook your way through, one delicious mouthful at a time</b>.<b><i>Marialisa Calta, Stir It Up column, UPI</i></b></div>
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<b><i>The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian</i> is a handsome book full of thoughtful recipes that celebrate vegetablesbut could easily fit into a meal with meat.</b> Next time you are in London, youll want to explore Persepolisbut till then, explore Sallys recipes.<b><i>SuperChef</i></b></div>
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This is <b>a book to discover and savor</b>.<b><i>In Mamas Kitchen</i></b></div>
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Last week, I picked up Sally Butchers <i>The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian</i> and I couldnt be happier<br />
. The author isnt vegetarian and admits to a terrible weakness for chorizo, yet she does cut a broad swath of delicious territory that even vegans will want to explore.<i>SavorSA</i></div>
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The book opens with her experience passing through Israeli security. Here she is, a typical American Christian, being grilled by Israel' border security determined to grind down any resistance from anyone who might be sympathetic to the Palestinians cause. The Q&A is humorous in a tragic way, similar to what I and I am sure many others have experienced going through Israel's intrusive, "you are guilty until proven innocent" grilling style.</center>
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It's funny that most Palestinians just don't know how to write. They know how to yell. They know how to scream. They know how to denounce their own brethren who they disagree with. And they know how to denounce Israel. But they just don't know how to tell their story. Olson, on the other hand, knows how to tell the story and she does it very well.</center>
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No surprisingly, she has written for the online Arab community, mainly for the activists. The Arab media consists of professional media and activists who write a lot of opinion and commentary poorly disguised as news. It's something Palestinians and Arabs just don't understand, that you don't have to beat someone over the head with a mallet in order to get them to understand and comprehend your tragedy. Olson immediately understood it, drawn in by another Arab's good looks. But I have long ago given up on the idea of romancing every American woman to win over the support of at least half of America's population. Because apparently, the only talent our activists have is winning over the hearts and minds of individuals, not large audiences or populations like Americans as a whole.</center>
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Fast Times in Palestine breaks free from all that, offering an in-depth look at the heart of the real Palestinian cause, the one that you won't hear about on Mondoweiss, the Electronic Intifada or the other places like Palestine Monitor which is less of a journalism site and more of an activism hub that focuses less on attacking other Palestinians and instead documents Palestinian events better than most other sites. Oslon should be writing for the New York Times as a columnist. She's far a better writer than Thomas Friedman and her message is clearly one of conveying an honest portrait of what's really happening on the ground in Palestine, where she spent several years observing and documenting, firsthand.</center>
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Olson also has an understanding of when and how to bring in facts, as she does often in explaining complex issues such as suicide bombing. In writing about being in Ramallah during one suicide bombing in Israel, she puts it all in a context that might help strangers to the Palestinian cause (anyone whose minds have been headlocked by the pro-Israel PR media machine in America, for one). It becomes an opportunity to understand the role of Hamas, and how it began and how the Palestinians turned to suicide bombings after American Israeli settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein murdered 29 Palestinian Muslims who were praying at a mosque in Hebron. When israel did nothing to respond to the tragedy, Hamas began a campaign to target Israeli civilians, an important fact lost in the "political translation" of Palestinian history when conveyed to pro-Israeli audiences that have been bought and sold by the Israeli lobby.</center>
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Every story Oslon offers in her journey is a story that I have experienced in visiting Palestine and that many other Palestinians have experienced, too, but just have not been able to share so fully. This isn't just a thin slice of Palestine but rather a deep portrait that captures so much.</center>
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She writes about her work for Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, who inspired her to make her trip to Palestine after traveling through some Arab countries. Barghouthi is inspirational. He has a strong sense of understanding communications and the role it plays in politics and manipulating large uneducated audiences like Americans. I recall meeting with him and talking about offering to train his staff on communications, something most Palestinian organizations and leaders lacked. But I couldn't stay long. I wasn't surprised when I learned that he had hired Olson who did some great work in helping Barghouthi to get his message out not just to Palestinians but to Western audiences, too.</center>
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Fast Times in Palestine presents a representative blend of Palestinian life, from the violence we are forced to read in one-sided media accounts that place all the blame on the Palestinians to a rare portrait of the everyday life of human beings oppressed by a brutal military dictatorship. That she is able to preserve the softness of true Palestinian culture in the hard-edged events that she covered while in Palestine for two years beginning in 2003 is an achievement many other writers who have scribed books on Palestine have failed to do. Her writing is effective and I promise you that when you are done reading the book -- and it won't be a labored experience, but an easy enjoyable one -- you will have a better understanding of the Middle East conflict from the one perspective rarely captured by Arab and Palestinian writers, the standpoint of the real victims, the Palestinians.</center>
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Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland</i></b></center>
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<b>-- Ray Hanania</b>Ray Hananiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4574312060271924683.post-13321614466258744722012-06-26T09:16:00.001-07:002012-06-26T09:16:16.432-07:00COLUMBUS AND THE QUEST FOR JERUSALEM by anthropologist Carol Delaney<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=rayhanania" onclick="return addthis_sendto()" onmouseout="addthis_close()" onmouseover="return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=rayhanania" type="text/javascript">
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Columbus and the Quest
for Jerusalem </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">by Carol Delaney recounts the drama of Columbus’s four voyages, bringing the
trials of ocean navigation vividly to life and showing Columbus for the master
navigator that he was. Putting Columbus back into the context of his times,
rather than viewing him through the prism of present-day perspectives on
colonial conquests, Delaney shows him to have been neither a greedy imperialist
nor a quixotic adventurer, as he has lately been depicted, but a man driven by
an abiding religious passion. Please find more information about the book and
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">This
is the story of a boy, born to a family of modest means, who grew up to become
the most famous mariner of all time and whose discovery changed the world
forever.” The story has been told many times over centuries and in its telling,
the message and intent became distorted – until now. In </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">COLUMBUS AND THE
QUEST FOR JERUSALEM</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> anthropologist </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Carol Delaney</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> offers a
profoundly new evaluation of Columbus and the motivation for his famous voyages
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Between
trips to Spain and Italy doing field work at the key sites of Columbus’s life,
Delaney performed extensive archival research, including a careful study of
Columbus’s own writings. It was there, clearly stated in his own words, that
Delaney discovered the ultimate purpose of his voyages. He set forth with the
intention to deliver letters from Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand to the
Grand Khan of Cathay and set up a trading post to trade for the gold and spices
he had read about in Marco Polo’s book. His ultimate goal was to obtain enough
gold to finance a crusade to retake Jerusalem from the Muslims as a
prerequisite to rebuild the temple for Christ’s return before the end of the
world. In the Christian world of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Columbus’s
day it was widely believed that Jerusalem must be in Christian hands before the
Second Coming of Christ. There was a strong sense that the End Times were
imminent and that time was running out. Columbus believed he had an important
role to play in this apocalyptic drama. He had a calling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Delaney
sets the stage by describing the tumultuous events that beset Europe leading up
to Columbus’s birth: the failure of multiple crusades to retake the Holy Land,
the devastation of the Black Plague, and the sacking of Constantinople, which
cut off lucrative trade with the Orient and the pilgrimage route to Jerusalem.
Against this backdrop, Delaney reveals how Columbus’s deep conviction led him
to believe he was destined to play a decisive role in retaking Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Five-hundred
years since Columbus’ first voyage, through the Protestant Reformation, the
Enlightenment, and the spread of education – all of which have led to the
growth of secularism – his mission still reverberates today. In the volatile
Middle East, the debate over the Holy Land has long been the thorn in the side
of peace. While there has always been an apocalyptic aura surrounding nuclear
weapons, many believe that a nuclear holocaust is a real possibility and could
likely begin over claims to Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In
writing <b>COLUMBUS AND THE QUEST FOR JERUSALEM</b>, Delaney’s purpose is not
to exonerate Columbus but to place him in his cultural context and shift some
of our attention to the religious ideas that motivated him and were widely
shared by his contemporaries – ideas so deeply influential that they are
present in our current national and political consciousness. Rather than view
him through the prism of present-day perspectives on colonial conquests,
Delaney shows him to have been neither a greedy imperialist nor a quixotic
adventurer, as he has lately been depicted, but a man driven by an abiding
religious passion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If we
take Columbus at his word, that the conquest of Jerusalem for Christendom was
his ultimate goal, how might that change our assessment of him, his mission,
and the framing of American history? Both timely and important, <b>COLUMBUS AND
THE QUEST FOR JERUSALEM</b> is a convincing portrait of the power of religion
to construct a believable word view and inspire the passion to fulfill its
promises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Carol Delaney</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> received an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and a
PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago and is a graduate
of Boston University. She was the assistant director of the Center for the
Study of World Religions at Harvard, and a visiting professor in the Department
of Religious Studies at Brown University. She is now a professor emerita of
Stanford University and a research scholar at The John Carter Brown Library at
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Campaign 2012 Is underway,
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context to the actions of the candidates and their campaigns. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Were the negative ads used
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John Adams claimed that the election of Jefferson would cause the teaching of
murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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left the Federalist Party and joined a party called the
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The dazzling mutil-media experience is reserved for those who choose the
iPad versions, as it provides features that no regular book or eBook can
do. It uses rich multimedia including over
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most famous ads in Presidential Election history including the Democratic ad
run once in 1964 showing a little girl and flowers followed by the an atomic
bomb going off of the infamous Willie Horton ad used to defeat Governor
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forth a wealth of new and old information.
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minuses. The iBook Author allows us to
produce a book that has stunning graphics and is interactive, while it stills
maintains the feel of a book. The App on
the other hand has a completely different non-chronological interface, and it
allows enter the program anywhere. A
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something you cannot do in a book.” </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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how elections take place, why people vote and other issues in elections. Questions such as why certain different
religious groups vote for Republicans or Democrats are explored, including a
novel theory on Jewish voting. It then
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Amazon.com with the App on the iTunes store and the iBook on the Apple’s iBook
Store. . You can also buy it from the publisher.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Having been an Apple Developer since 1983 Marc was an early developer of
iPhone Applications releasing the first in October 2008. Multieducator which Marc is the CEO of
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Is there a way for peace and stability to be achieved in
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In the remarkable new book <b><i>To Lift a Mirror For What You’ve Lost</i></b>,
one uniquely qualified man is following his dream and seeking to accomplish
this very idea. He has created a unique
and personal story to help people understand the situation in Afghanistan. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Nangy Ghafarshad’s life is an amazing story. He grew up in Afghanistan,
became an elite officer in the Royal Afghan Air Force in 1960. A fully rated
fighter pilot, he was trained for leadership by both the Russians and the
Americans. In 1968, struggling with
strong feelings of dismay at how his government ruled his native land and not
wishing to return to a place offering little opportunity, on completing an Air
Force leadership program sponsored by the USAF, he decided to stay in the
United States and became a U.S. citizen. In southern California, he worked as a
corporate pilot including flying Mrs. Rosalind Carter around California while,
her husband, Jimmy Carter ran for President.
Nangy and his wife bought a small coffee shop in Claremont and grew it
into a first-class restaurant that seats 400 guests. His involvement in
charitable organizations led to a company, which had a contraction with the
U.S. Department of Defense, to hire him as Senior Cultural Advisor assigned in
Afghanistan. After leaving 40 years before, he returned to Afghanistan only to
find that everything he knew had been destroyed by war. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">“My goal,” he says, “is to use my experience and knowledge and
share what is going on in the country of my birth so people may do a better job
helping things turn out as good as possible for all concerned.” </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">“The Afghan people seek the same equality and opportunity that all
human beings desire and should share in.
And while things are improving, there are a few “doors” that need to be
reworked so that the Afghan people can step into the new world.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">His highly readable and well-illustrated book, while largely about
his life and that of his family, contains a wealth of information about
Afghanistan’s past and present. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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FROM THE ARAB SPRING TO THE SORKIN SUMMER Sorkin writes
Hollywood’s first portrayal of the Arab Spring on HBO’s The Newsroom</div>
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(Los Angeles, June 11, 2012) Last year’s revolution in
Egypt inspired people across the world -- including the mind of Oscar-winning
writer Aaron Sorkin. His highly
anticipated new show, The Newsroom (premiering June 24 on HBO) will include
Hollywood’s first depiction of the Arab Spring.</div>
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The mid-season plot will follow the revolution with the
help of real life Egyptian-American actor Amin El Gamal, a rising star who
guests on the show. El Gamal plays an
amateur reporter that wins the hearts of the newsroom staff (played by Jeff
Daniels, Emily Mortimer, and Dev Patel) and becomes their rogue correspondent.</div>
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“The revolution had a profound effect on my family and
me.” El Gamal said. “And I was thrilled
to play an Arab man who’s not associated with violence and hate. I felt a responsibility to properly represent
the incredible people who finally got a voice during those 18 days in Tahrir
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That responsibility lead El Gamal to collaborate with
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“My character originally had a Swahili name, which didn’t
make much sense for an Egyptian.” El Gamal said. “I was terrified to bring it up -- Aaron
Sorkin being as brilliant as he is -- but I felt I owed it to the brave
Egyptians whose story we were telling.”</div>
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Sorkin was open to the change and asked El Gamal to email
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“I hope my episode reaches some brown kid with a
similarly weird name, who’s struggling with his or her identity, like I
was.” El Gamal said. “And I hope it
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Amin El Gamal is an actor who was born (during an
earthquake) and raised in Palo Alto, CA.
Amin is a first generation Egyptian-American (his last name means “The
Camel” in Arabic) and a graduate of Stanford University. Within months of completing USC’s MFA in
Acting program, he caught Aaron Sorkin’s eye and landed a guest role on HBO’s
The Newsroom in an episode named after his character (airing July 22). Amin can also be seen in the upcoming films
Take Down the House and Indefinitely, and on stages across the country
including the NY Public Theater, Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Magic Theatre,
and A Noise Within. </div>
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heritage and sustainability in the Islamic Built environments. They include
an analysis of the problems that cities in the Islamic world face as they
confront the forces of globalization and new development. The book embraces a
wide array of principles, strategies and precedents that are instrumental to
the design of cities and communities in Islamic regions in order to sustain
their cultural and environmental vitality. The book’s contributors also
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<strong>While standing by the crumbling dictatorships elsewhere in the region, the United States, France and the United Kingdom seized the opportunity to intervene in Libya under cover of a new “responsibility to protect” doctrine authorizing humanitarian intervention. But instead, NATO took sides in the </strong><b><br />
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<strong>protect, reducing the Libyan capital and surrounding cities to rubble, and opening itself to charges of war crimes.</strong><br />
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<strong>These essays chronicle the growing militarization of US policy in North Africa and the Gulf and the historic confrontation between the Arab democratic revolts and the imperial backed satraps. Bearing witness to the ragtag rebel victory enabled by NATO in Libya and ongoing chaos throughout the region, Petras disassembles America’s collapsing Middle East policy.</strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
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</span></b><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">"Dr. James Petras is one of the greatest personalities of critical intellect of our time. His </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;"><br />
<span class="text">numerous books, which have been translated into many languages, and his opinion articles </span><br />
<span class="text">which are invariably defined by their rigor and decisive data, widely documented and </span><br />
<span class="text">placed within their social context, have turned this thinker into one of the most lucid and </span><br />
<span class="text">coherent minds of recent times. Naturally, this has earned Dr. Petras the resentment of </span><br />
<span class="text">those who feel affected by his tireless efforts. Nevertheless, countless readers all over the </span><br />
<span class="text">world seek the words of this thinker to defend themselves from propaganda that intends to </span><br />
<span class="text">make us sympathize with the single-minded thinking of neoliberalism."</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><br />
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</span></b><span class="text"><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at </span></span><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="text">Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of 64 books </span><br />
<span class="text">published in 29 languages, and over 560 articles in professional </span><br />
<span class="text">journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Journal of Peasant Studies. He has published over 2000 articles in nonprofessional journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian, </span><br />
<span class="text">the Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left </span><br />
<span class="text">Review, Partisan Review, Temps Moderne, Le Monde Diplomatique, </span><br />
<span class="text">and his commentary is widely carried on the internet. His most recent titles are</span><em> The Power of </em></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://emm.adhost.com/t?r=782&c=912839&l=33690&ctl=14B458C:40C849F19020BF422BCA91BD94B5FCF13B113531E5EC2DAA&"><em><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Israel in the United States</span></em></a></span><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://emm.adhost.com/t?r=782&c=912839&l=33690&ctl=14B458C:40C849F19020BF422BCA91BD94B5FCF13B113531E5EC2DAA&"> </a>and<a href="http://emm.adhost.com/t?r=782&c=912839&l=33690&ctl=14B458D:40C849F19020BF422BCA91BD94B5FCF13B113531E5EC2DAA&"> </a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://emm.adhost.com/t?r=782&c=912839&l=33690&ctl=14B458D:40C849F19020BF422BCA91BD94B5FCF13B113531E5EC2DAA&"><em><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Rulers and Ruled in the United States</span></em></a></span><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://emm.adhost.com/t?r=782&c=912839&l=33690&ctl=14B458D:40C849F19020BF422BCA91BD94B5FCF13B113531E5EC2DAA&">,</a> (acquired for Japanese, German, Italian, Indonesian, Czech and Arabic editions), </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://emm.adhost.com/t?r=782&c=912839&l=33690&ctl=14B458E:40C849F19020BF422BCA91BD94B5FCF13B113531E5EC2DAA&"><em><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power</span></em></a></span><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://emm.adhost.com/t?r=782&c=912839&l=33690&ctl=14B458F:40C849F19020BF422BCA91BD94B5FCF13B113531E5EC2DAA&"><em><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Global Depression & Regional Wars</span></em></a></span></span><em><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">, </span></em><span class="text"><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">and</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://emm.adhost.com/t?r=782&c=912839&l=33690&ctl=14B4590:40C849F19020BF422BCA91BD94B5FCF13B113531E5EC2DAA&"><em><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> War Crimes in Gaza and </span></em><i><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"><br />
</span></i><em><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">the Zionist Fifth Column in America</span></em></a></span><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">. He has a long history of </span></span><span style="color: #0b403e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="text">commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian </span><br />
<span class="text">Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a </span><br />
<span class="text">member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin </span><br />
<span class="text">America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, Le </span><br />
<span class="text">Jornada, and previously, for the Spanish daily, El Mundo. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Ikhras haters Thabit al-Arabi and Qassem Lufti, who have a life-long difficulty with the English language, moderation and accuracy, have laid out (or lied out) a long list of reasons why they think </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> shouldn't be attacked and that the pro-Democracy protesters should be blamed and criticized.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">But they know that their support for the Syrian government, which has murdered more than 4,000 innocent civilians including hundreds of children, is not an easy one to argue. It makes them look like hypocrites as they assault and slander an array of people including. Their targets include star comedians Dean Obeidallah and Maysoon Zayid (who host the annual New York Arab Comedy Festival), and writers Hussein Ibish, Ray Hanania and Mona eltahawy. These are but a few of the scores of people that Ikhras brutalizes in their online verbal assaults as if they were the Syrian military police attacking civilians seeking freedom in Homs. (I can just see the Ikhras goofs cheering as new statistics surface about innocent Syrian civilians being killed by the Syrian Government that they consistently defend.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">All you have to do is read their Twitter posts, posts that Qassem and Thabet recently referred to as "Twits" in an email. Maybe that's because they are the "twits."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Hussein Ibish has penned a scathing expose of who these sad refugees from truth really are.</span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">(<a href="http://kabobfestcharred.blogspot.com/2011/07/ikhras-plays-games-with-truth-fast-and.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click here to read that priceless unveiling of the rotten core of Ikhras</a>.)</i><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Here's a direct link to Ibish's article: <a href="http://www.ibishblog.com/blog/hibish/2011/06/24/brief_follow_up_anti_arab_hate_site_ikhras" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click here</a>.</i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">But here are some of their most recent Tweets (Yes Thabet and Qassem, they're called Tweets, not Twits!) that demonstrate and prove their loyalty to the Syrian Dictatorship and why they pick and chose their words carefully to pretend as if they care about, say, the Palestinian refugees (they don't) or the people of Egypt (they don't) or ADC (which upsets them the most because ADC fights for the rights of victims of discrimination including those bullied by cowards like Qassem and Thabet and the Ikhras gaggle of online bullies).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Read how they carefully tiptoe and pretend they do not support the brutality of the Syrian regime, and then use that argument as a means of attacking others. The way they exploit the suffering of the Palestinians as a means of saying, hey, what's happening in Syria isn't that important because Bush is a liar and a murderer, too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Their theme here is right out of the Little Red Book published by Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian Baath Party dictators.</span><br />
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Unlikely RJ would sponsor these clowns w/o involvement of Gov agency<a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://www.ascf.jo/index.html" data-ultimate-url="http://www.ascf.jo/index.html" href="http://t.co/0zhhY54I" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.ascf.jo/index.html">ascf.jo/index.html</a></div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="tweet-timestamp js-permalink" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras/status/144713706880765952" style="color: rgb(0, 132, 180) !important; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; 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padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link js-action-profile-name" data-user-id="124048120" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras" style="color: #0084b4; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ikhras اخرس">ikhras</a> <span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ikhras اخرس</span> </span><br />
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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Can anyone provide info on this show in Amman, Jordan?<a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://www.ascf.jo/index.html" data-ultimate-url="http://www.ascf.jo/index.html" href="http://t.co/0zhhY54I" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.ascf.jo/index.html">ascf.jo/index.html</a> Interested in role of US Embassy in this event.<a class=" twitter-atreply pretty-link" data-screen-name="Deanofcomedy" href="http://twitter.com/#!/Deanofcomedy" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; 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text-decoration: none;"><span class="_timestamp js-tweet-timestamp" data-long-form="true" data-time="1323337277000" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="3:41 AM, Dec 8th">2 hours ago</span> </a><span class="tweet-actions js-actions" data-tweet-id="144713148203667456" style="font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><span class="tweet-action action-favorite" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="favorite-action js-toggle-fav" href="http://twitter.com/#" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ikhras اخرس">ikhras</a> <span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ikhras اخرس</span> </span><br />
<div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><br />
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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Interesting to contrast Western officials descriptions of Eric Honeker/Gustav Husak/Nicolae Ceaușescu w/descriptions of Qadhafi/Saddam/Assad</div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="tweet-timestamp js-permalink" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras/status/144683696555962368" style="color: #0084b4; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_timestamp js-tweet-timestamp" data-long-form="true" data-time="1323330256000" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="1:44 AM, Dec 8th">4 hours ago</span> </a><span class="tweet-actions js-actions" data-tweet-id="144683696555962368" style="font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><span class="tweet-action action-favorite" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="favorite-action js-toggle-fav" href="http://twitter.com/#" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Favorite"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ikhras اخرس">ikhras</a> <span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ikhras اخرس</span> </span><br />
<div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><br />
<div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"><span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="inlinemedia-icons js-icon-container" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><b>Why do some ignore mass murder of 1.5 Million people by Bush & Blair in Iraq & feign humanity over crimes by Arab rulers US Gov opposes?</b></div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="tweet-timestamp js-permalink" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras/status/144678963095142400" style="color: #0084b4; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_timestamp js-tweet-timestamp" data-long-form="true" data-time="1323329127000" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="1:25 AM, Dec 8th">4 hours ago</span> </a><span class="tweet-actions js-actions" data-tweet-id="144678963095142400" style="font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><span class="tweet-action action-favorite" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="favorite-action js-toggle-fav" href="http://twitter.com/#" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Favorite"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; 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outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><div class="stream-item-content tweet js-actionable-tweet js-stream-tweet stream-tweet " data-is-reply-to="false" data-item-id="144675413208207360" data-screen-name="ikhras" data-tweet-id="144675413208207360" data-user-id="124048120" style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="tweet-dogear" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1323283852/phoenix/img/tweet-dogear.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 24px 25px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 25px; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ikhras اخرس">ikhras</a> <span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ikhras اخرس</span> </span><br />
<div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><br />
<div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"><span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="inlinemedia-icons js-icon-container" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><b>Arabs must oppose Arab tyranny w/o adopting racist double standards which dehumanize an entire culture and not just a regime or ruler.</b></div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="tweet-timestamp js-permalink" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras/status/144675413208207360" style="color: #0084b4; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_timestamp js-tweet-timestamp" data-long-form="true" data-time="1323328281000" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="1:11 AM, Dec 8th">4 hours ago</span> </a><span class="tweet-actions js-actions" data-tweet-id="144675413208207360" style="font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><span class="tweet-action action-favorite" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="favorite-action js-toggle-fav" href="http://twitter.com/#" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Favorite"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ikhras اخرس">ikhras</a> <span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ikhras اخرس</span> </span><br />
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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><b>Arabs who oppose Arab dictators shouldnt accept the West's dehumanization of Arab rulers because it includes dehumanization of Arab culture</b></div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="tweet-timestamp js-permalink" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras/status/144674300534857729" style="color: #0084b4; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_timestamp js-tweet-timestamp" data-long-form="true" data-time="1323328015000" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="1:06 AM, Dec 8th">4 hours ago</span> </a><span class="tweet-actions js-actions" data-tweet-id="144674300534857729" style="font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><span class="tweet-action action-favorite" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="favorite-action js-toggle-fav" href="http://twitter.com/#" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Favorite"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ikhras اخرس">ikhras</a> <span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ikhras اخرس</span> </span><br />
<div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><br />
<div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"><span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="inlinemedia-icons js-icon-container" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><b>Those who call <a class=" twitter-hashtag pretty-link" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Syria" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="#Syria"><s class="hash" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">#</s><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; white-space: normal;">Syria</span></a> n President a "liar" (and lets all assume he is): Would you dare call US officials liars? Dont accept double standards</b></div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="tweet-timestamp js-permalink" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras/status/144673365599338496" style="color: #0084b4; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_timestamp js-tweet-timestamp" data-long-form="true" data-time="1323327792000" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="1:03 AM, Dec 8th">4 hours ago</span> </a><span class="tweet-actions js-actions" data-tweet-id="144673365599338496" style="font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; 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border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /></div><div class="tweet-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="tweet-user-name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link js-action-profile-name" data-user-id="124048120" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras" style="color: #0084b4; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ikhras اخرس">ikhras</a> <span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ikhras اخرس</span> </span><br />
<div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><br />
<div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"><span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="inlinemedia-icons js-icon-container" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">For those who oppose the <a class=" twitter-hashtag pretty-link" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Syria" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="#Syria"><s class="hash" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; white-space: normal;">Syria</b></a> n regime: Its in your interest to not lie. Youre better off trying to preserve your credibility.</div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="tweet-timestamp js-permalink" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras/status/144672846537441281" style="color: #0084b4; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_timestamp js-tweet-timestamp" data-long-form="true" data-time="1323327669000" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="1:01 AM, Dec 8th">4 hours ago</span> </a><span class="tweet-actions js-actions" data-tweet-id="144672846537441281" style="font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><span class="tweet-action action-favorite" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="favorite-action js-toggle-fav" href="http://twitter.com/#" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Favorite"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; 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background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 15px; margin-bottom: -3px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 15px;"></i><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></b></span></a></span></div><div class="tweet-row tweet-activity tweet-activity-retweets" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"></div><div class="tweet-row tweet-activity tweet-activity-favorites" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"></div></div></div></div><div class="js-stream-item stream-item" data-item-id="144672635421327360" data-item-type="tweet" media="true" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(235, 235, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -1px; min-height: 60px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><div class="stream-item-content tweet js-actionable-tweet js-stream-tweet stream-tweet " data-is-reply-to="false" data-item-id="144672635421327360" data-screen-name="ikhras" data-tweet-id="144672635421327360" data-user-id="124048120" style="font-size: 15px; 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border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /></div><div class="tweet-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="tweet-user-name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link js-action-profile-name" data-user-id="124048120" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras" style="color: #0084b4; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ikhras اخرس">ikhras</a> <span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ikhras اخرس</span> </span><br />
<div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><br />
<div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"><span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="inlinemedia-icons js-icon-container" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">It appears some people paid more attention to State Dept's characterization of the Bashar Al-Assad interview than to the interview. <a class=" twitter-hashtag pretty-link" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Syria" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="#Syria"><s class="hash" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; white-space: normal;">Syria</b></a></div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="tweet-timestamp js-permalink" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras/status/144672635421327360" style="color: #0084b4; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_timestamp js-tweet-timestamp" data-long-form="true" data-time="1323327618000" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="1:00 AM, Dec 8th">4 hours ago</span> </a><span class="tweet-actions js-actions" data-tweet-id="144672635421327360" style="font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><span class="tweet-action action-favorite" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="favorite-action js-toggle-fav" href="http://twitter.com/#" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Favorite"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; 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position: relative; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 15px;"></i><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></b></span></a></span><a class="reply-action js-action-reply" data-screen-name="ikhras" href="http://twitter.com/#" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Reply"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1323283852/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 15px; margin-bottom: -3px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 15px;"></i><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></b></span></a></span></div><div class="tweet-row tweet-activity tweet-activity-retweets" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"></div><div class="tweet-row tweet-activity tweet-activity-favorites" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"></div></div></div></div><div class="js-stream-item stream-item" data-item-id="144472090257539073" data-item-type="tweet" media="true" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(235, 235, 235); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -1px; min-height: 60px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><div class="stream-item-content tweet js-actionable-tweet js-stream-tweet stream-tweet " data-is-reply-to="false" data-item-id="144472090257539073" data-screen-name="ikhras" data-tweet-id="144472090257539073" data-user-id="124048120" style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="tweet-dogear" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1323283852/phoenix/img/tweet-dogear.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 24px 25px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 25px; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 24px;"></div><div class="tweet-image" style="float: left; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"><img alt="Ikhras اخرس" class="user-profile-link js-action-profile-avatar" data-user-id="124048120" height="48" src="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1304941166/13_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /></div><div class="tweet-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="tweet-user-name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link js-action-profile-name" data-user-id="124048120" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras" style="color: #0084b4; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ikhras اخرس">ikhras</a> <span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ikhras اخرس</span> </span><br />
<div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><br />
<div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"><span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="inlinemedia-icons js-icon-container" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Arabs deserve better than to have to choose between dictatorship and imperialism.</div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="tweet-timestamp js-permalink" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras/status/144472090257539073" style="color: #0084b4; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_timestamp js-tweet-timestamp" data-long-form="true" data-time="1323279805000" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="11:43 AM, Dec 7th">18 hours ago</span> </a><span class="tweet-actions js-actions" data-tweet-id="144472090257539073" style="font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><span class="tweet-action action-favorite" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="favorite-action js-toggle-fav" href="http://twitter.com/#" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Favorite"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1323283852/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -32px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 15px; margin-bottom: -3px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 15px;"></i><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></b></span></a></span><span class="tweet-action action-retweet" style="margin-bottom: 0px; 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margin-bottom: -3px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 15px;"></i><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></b></span></a></span><a class="reply-action js-action-reply" data-screen-name="ikhras" href="http://twitter.com/#" style="color: #0084b4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Reply"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1323283852/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 15px; margin-bottom: -3px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 15px;"></i><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></b></span></a></span></div><div class="tweet-row tweet-activity tweet-activity-retweets" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><div class="stream-item-content tweet js-actionable-tweet js-stream-tweet stream-tweet " data-is-reply-to="false" data-item-id="144466016892755969" data-screen-name="ikhras" data-tweet-id="144466016892755969" data-user-id="124048120" style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="tweet-dogear" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1323283852/phoenix/img/tweet-dogear.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 24px 25px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 25px; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /></div><div class="tweet-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="tweet-user-name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link js-action-profile-name" data-user-id="124048120" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ikhras" style="color: #0084b4; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ikhras اخرس">ikhras</a> <span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ikhras اخرس</span> </span><br />
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"Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East" is the perfect book to take with you on a vacation and relax and read through the collection of essays, either in order or selectively by title and topic. The book has 139 essays that address a chronological breakdown of Middle Eastern time periods. The 1910 to 1950, 1950 to 1980 and 1980 until today. Each is further broken up in to more selective decades that add real context to the writings.<br />
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Some of the essays in the anthology are well known and others are lesser known but powerful. It's an inspirational collection that gives you some real insight into the Middle East, the Arab mind and the Muslim World. It's a mix of Arab and non-Arab writings, mostly Muslim focused.<br />
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You could read it straight through as the writing talent is remarkable, of course. Or, you can do as I did and slowly pick and choose through the essays, re-reading many without boredom. The stories and tales are captivating and run the gamut from Palestine to Persia, Pakistan and Turkey. You get a sense of a common thread that rises above the religion, though, offering real insight in to everyday lives in each era.<br />
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This is one you will not want to rush through. You can read through it with interest driven by the detail and the eloquent writing styles of many of the essay authors. Much of the writing is translated from the native languages (Arabic, Turkish, Persian). Essays include writings by Khalil Gibran, Muhammad Iqbal, Forugh Farrokhzad, Yasar Kemal, Mahmoud Darwish, Adonis, Ahmad Shmaloo and Orhan Pamuk.<br />
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Edited by Reza Aslan, published by Norton & Co. in New York and London. 2011. 658 pp.<br />
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Joe Avesar has been an activist for peace since his childhood when an Arab fisherman saved his sister from drowning. Avesar is no a co-founder of the Palestinian-Israeli Confederation movement which has a large presence in Israel, Palestine and on Facebook.<br />
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Avesar has detailed the principles of confederation in his new book "Peace: A Case for an Israeli Palestinian Confederation" (126 pp, Damasaja Publishing, CA).<br />
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The book argues mainly about peace but also how a confederation can make the current Middle East peace failures turn in to a reality.<br />
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It's well written and easy to read. And when you are done, it restores your belief that peace is possible; so many Palestinians and Israelis, these days, are fighting against the idea of peace, believing instead of conquest or victory. The idea of compromise has lost much of its luster and many who support peace, tragically, have lost the will to believe.<br />
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Avesar's book offers an impetus to believe again and it provides clean, clear and reasoned logic to kickstart a new initiative and get people to think out of the box.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">TPFF presents: Arab World Perspectives</span></strong><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Stray Bullet</span></em><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> (Lebanon)</span></strong></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Saturday, October 1,
2011, 2:00pm</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jackman Theatre, AGO</span></strong></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">TPFF is
proud to announce the <strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Arab
World Perspectives</span></strong> program, a new addition to this year?s
festival line-up. This program shines a light on another part of the Arab world
with a cutting-edge film from an up-and-coming Arab filmmaker. TPFF has
selected the award-winning Lebanese film <em><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Stray
Bullet</span></b></em> by <strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Georges
Hachem</span></strong> and starring acclaimed Lebanese director/actor <strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nadine Labaki</span></strong> (<em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Caramel</span></em>; <em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Where do we go now?)</span></em>. </span><br />
<em><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Best Film Muhr Arab Award</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> winner at the Dubai
International Film Festival (2010), Hachem's debut film is a poignant
socio-politically charged drama that unveils a family in turmoil in the midst
of wartime tensions. It's the end of summer 1976 in a northern suburb of
Beirut. Noha (Labaki) is engaged to be married and her overbearing family is
relieved she will not end up an old maid like her sister. Wedding preparations
appear to be going to plan until, on that Sunday, fifteen days before the
nuptials, Noha changes her mind. Noha's self-actualization triggers a cascading
set of events that fractures her and her family. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBaO5C4Jz5s">Trailer</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This
beautiful film shot in a 1970s grainy aesthetic captured a best cinematography
award and will be screened in 35mm format. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Following
the screening, TPFF will host a panel with director <strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Georges
Hachem</span></strong> and Pomegranates and Myrrh actor <strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ashraf
Farah. </span></strong>They will discuss their films, which address themes of
personal and national conflicts, as well as, trends, opportunities and
obstacles for filmmakers and artists working in the Middle East on projects
presenting a social commentary. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">If you like
this film, <a href="http://tpff.ca/festival-program">check out</a>: <br />
</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://tpff.ca/festival-program">Pomegranates
and Myrrh</a> - A dancer challenges society?s expectations of a wife whose
husband is imprisoned. <em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sept 30, 7:00pm, Lightbox</span></em><i><br />
</i></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://tpff.ca/festival-program">Kingdom
of Women</a> - The women of Ein el Hilweh rebuild their refugee camp in Lebanon
after it was destroyed in 1982. <em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oct 3, 7:00pm, AGO</span></em><i><br />
</i></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://tpff.ca/festival-program">Shout</a>
- Best friends from the occupied Golan Heights leave home for the first time to
pursue studies and a new life in Damascus, Syria. <em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oct 4, 7:00pm, AGO</span></em></span><br />
<em><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The 4<sup>th</sup>
annual TPFF is taking place Sept 30- Oct-7, 2011.</span></b></em><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Established in 2008,
TPFF celebrates film as an art form and means of expression by showcasing the
vibrant heritage, resilience, and narratives of the Palestinian people.</span></em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Tickets and TPFF 10 Pass are on sale
online and at the TIFF Lightbox?s box office. Visit <a href="http://tpff.ca/festival-program/">http://tpff.ca/festival-program/</a>
for TPFF program or to purchase tickets.</span></em></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Contact:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Dania Majid,
programmer/media liaison, <a href="mailto:media@tpff.ca">media@tpff.ca</a>. </span><br />
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<div class="MsoPlainText">LESSONS ON PRIDE</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">Gabriella Naseem Akhtar van Rij’s <i>With All My Might</i> chronicles the many instances of racism that she has encountered throughout her life as a woman born in Pakistan and raised by adoptive Dutch parents in the Netherlands.<span> </span>When she was a child, a Frenchwoman asked her why she was dirty and had not washed herself properly because of her brown skin, and as an adult, the ignorance did not improve much, even living in different times, when race relations have ostensibly improved.</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">At the airport in Brussels, she learns a very important lesson about pride and not being ashamed of who she is.<span> </span>Security personnel told her she was in the wrong line, not bothering to look at her EU passport; she notices a foreign looking man in the EU line who stands his ground in a “dignified” manner against the racist security guards, asking to see a supervisor, showing his army credentials that he is a colonel of the French army, and defends van Rij’s rights, telling them not to give her any trouble.</div><div class="MsoPlainText"></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">When he asked her if this happened to her often, he says, “he was ashamed that people would treat others like that and told me to stand up for who I was…And I always did after that!” She describes the experience of being “attacked for something you cannot change at all,” like the color of your skin, which “you cannot even begin to try to change” as a “crippling feeling.”<span> </span>From this negative experience, van Rij gained valuable insight and learned an important lesson, that “we need to stand up for who we are and defend our rights.”<span> </span>She discovers that “my pride is all I had” and that “no human should make us crawl and feel inferior because of race or colour.”</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">Although the tensions of race relations have superficially loosened, since 9/11, race has again become a heated issue and many Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent are treated with the same cruelty, ignorance, and prejudice with which blacks were treated before the Civil Rights Movement.<span> </span>With All My Might offers readers important lessons about the value of courage, pride, and not allowing people to make others feel inferior; only in defending rights can the marginalized factions of society gain acceptance and respect and change the attitudes of the prejudiced.</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">Contact: Gabriella van Rij - <a href="mailto:gabriellavanrij@gmail.com">gabriellavanrij@gmail.com</a></div>Ray Hananiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4574312060271924683.post-78651972785776126352011-08-25T08:16:00.000-07:002011-08-25T08:16:58.724-07:00The Gaze of the Gazelle by Arash Hejazi<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=rayhanania"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=rayhanania" type="text/javascript">
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We talk about the tyranny of the Shah of Iran and the even worse tyranny of the Mullah's that followed. We talk about the politics of Iran today and its role in terrorism, violence and the instability of the Middle East. We talk about the conflict that the United States started using their dictator pal Saddam Hussein, and quickly forget the hardships that were wrought on the people of Iran and also Iraq. And we talk about the Middle East conflict as if it is just another story.<br />
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Yet what we don't talk about are the lives that were destroyed and permanently altered, reshaped violently and the many deaths, most of the dead are names and faces we will never know or see.<br />
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Iran has been but a political square in a political debate. But it is a nation of enslaved people, enslaved under the pro-Western backed tyrant the Shah Reza Pahlavi and then by the Ayatollah Khomeini and then again by the little dictator President Ahmedinejad.<br />
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Arash Hejazi tells the story to the Western World that is so ignorant of the facts of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf and the Islamic World in a way that puts a human face on its cover. "The Gaze of the Gazelle" is a poignant retelling of all the history we have accepted as political rhetoric in a human form. The story of real people who were impacted by our policies and our political viciousness and our stereotyped rhetoric and racism in America.<br />
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The story begins from the eyes of a young boy and watches as the world around him collapses following the fall of the Shah and the Rise of the Mullah tyrants. Then there is the war with the US backed Iraq and Saddam Hussein and the destruction in brought on everyone in the country. He tells the story of how he watched the Revolution turn from a people's movement to another vicious dictatorship, this time religious and twisted. And he recounts the day when he was only 17 and watched the Mullah's soldiers pull aside a young Muslim woman who was also only 17 and shoot her in the head in front of a crowd of frightened observers.<br />
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He watched as his family life was destroyed and his friends and his father's friends fled or vanished.<br />
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No one could speak but Arash managed to launch a publishing company and his struggle to get the true story out about the criminal behaviour of the leaders of Iran is a compelling story that every American should read. It was our tax dollars that paid for the bullets that fired into the brains of young women by the mullahs, that bought the scimitars that were used to cut off the heads of dissidents, and that funded the bombs that rained down on millions of innocent people.<br />
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We owe it to the Iranian people to at least try to learn the truth.<br />
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"The Gaze of the Gazelle" offers one window into the horrors of the history of Iran under tyrannical oppression over the years.<br />
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I couldn't put this book down. It read swiftly and cleanly and with a comprehension that was utterly shocking to me. I urge everyone to read this memoir of a little boy who became a revolutionary for truth.<br />
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<i>The Gaze of the Gazelle: The Story of a Generation</i><br />
Seagull Books<br />
2011<br />
London, New York and Calcutta<br />
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Ray Hananiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4574312060271924683.post-2318590070193491992011-08-22T06:48:00.000-07:002011-08-22T06:48:55.225-07:00With All My Might by Gabriella Naseem Akhtar van Rij - racism in the wake of Sept. 11th<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=rayhanania"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=rayhanania" type="text/javascript">
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<div class="MsoPlainText">Finally, a book that addresses the reality of the post-Sept. 11, 2001 racism against anyone who looked Middle Eastern, or who looked like the terrorists, or who was Muslim, dark skinned, spoke or didn't speak Arabic.</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">POST 9/11 RACISM</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">Gabriella Naseem Akhtar van Rij’s <i>With All My Might e</i>xplores the racism that has pervaded the world since 9/11, documenting her own experiences as a woman born in Pakistan and adopted by Dutch parents.<span> </span>Although she had faced racism and pressures to conform throughout her life, after 9/11 van Rij experienced particularly ignorant forms of racism, prejudice, and bias that were not influenced by logic or reasonable thought, rather, by immutable conceptions of Middle Eastern people.</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">As the media bombarded people with terrible images of Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Bin Laden, van Rij was confronted with ignorance; “Pictures are very powerful and people started to associate the people on the news with people like me, who just happened to look like them.”<span> </span>Although she had experienced a great deal of racism in her life in Brussels, she was unprepared for North American racism, thinking that it was “over and done with.”</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">Van Rij gave technical seminars on computer programs for multinationals and someone made the comment “about my looks being identical to the people shown on television,” an experience that she calls “surrealistic.”<span> </span>She had watched the same images as her client; however, she in no way connected the images of the terrorists to herself.<span> </span>She finds herself justifying herself to the ignorance of the world, reminding herself that she was brought up in Europe and that the war had nothing to do with her.<span> </span>She calls justifying herself to those with preconceived notions and bias a “bad habit I have” and one that is unnecessary.<span> </span>The woman to whom she unnecessarily justifies herself “could not have cared less and definitely did not listen.<span> </span>All she cared about is that I looked like those people on television and wondered if I could potentially do harm too.”</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">Van Rij’s account of the racism that she has experienced since 9/11 highlights a gross inequity in today’s society, in which many ignorantly hold Muslim and Middle Eastern people in general responsible for the terrorism and radicals, no matter what their religious alignment, beliefs, or personal history, even holding biases against some second generation Americans of Middle Eastern descent.<span> </span>We are confronted with these issues continually through such programs as CNN’s Unwanted: The Muslims Next Door and the resistance to the building of mosques on American soil.<span> </span>With All My Might stimulates deep thought and reflection within readers, encouraging them to reexamine their attitudes and the manner in which they have unfairly treated people in the last decade.</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
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This is a fascinating book that looks back at the 10 years since Arab Muslim extremists hijacked four airplanes and crashed three into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers and the Pentagon, a decade that changed perceptions of Arabs and Muslims dramatically.<br />
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The book is a collection of 17 essays, many of them brilliantly written and insightful, but a few that are truly worthless and typical of the kind of political rhetoric that has fed not hindered the growing anti-Arabism and Islamaphobia that has risen in the West and the United States. But the good news is you can skip the few and focus on the many.<br />
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The collection of essays focuses on the challenges that Detroit's Arab population has faced as a consequence of the hysteria that has emerged from the basic American lack of knowledge of the Arab and Muslim Worlds with eassyists addressing various aspects.<br />
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Rachel Yezick offers an overview of one of the only major positive institutional by-products of the post-Sept. 11 era, the construction of the Arab National Museum on Michigan Avenue in downtown Dearborn. The museum is brilliant and wonderful, a collection of everything Arab Americana. Yezbick gives an overview of how it came about and what is there. (In 2004, I penned a lengthy feature on the opening of the Arab National Museum for ARAMCO Magazine.)<br />
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Authors Howell and Shryock offer a detailed look at the backlash against the American Arab community in Detroit and the so-called "War on Terror." This essay is a memorable look back published in Anthropological Quarterly in 2003. It's not updated -- it has been so well read already -- but it provides an aspect of the bigger picture the book seeks to paint. The essay examines the growth of how the government has examined economic ties between American Arab and Muslim organizations and Middle East connections, with an eye to the terror.<br />
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The book contains a heavy weight of perspective on the impact on Muslims, but essayist Matthew Stiffler looks at the impact of Sept. 11 on Christian Arabs, an often ignored and misdiagnosed community. In fact, so much focus is on Muslims and Arab Christians are often viewed as being a Christian Muslim anomaly by many Americans who can't tell the difference between either and simply put Christian Arabs into the box with Muslims as one religious identity.<br />
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Yasmeen Hanoosh offers a valuable look at Detroit's important and often ignored or misidentified Chaldean Community, Christians from the Middle East many of whom do not consider themselves Arabs. The Chaldeans are actually the bedrock of the "Arab" community in Detroit, all Christian and all misunderstood, stereotyped and misportrayed.<br />
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The worst essay of course is written by Will Youmans, one of the creators of the Jew-bashing web site KabobFest, which partners with the Jew-hating website Ikhras to libel, slander and defame anyone who criticizes Hamas and the growing extremist movement in the Middle East. (Youmans is also a failed "rapper" whose work seemed to borrow liberally from the cadence of Eminem, a Detroit native.)<br />
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Naturally, Youman's poorly written essay tries to stitch together some kind of ridiculous argument that connects his personal extremist political views with an "analysis" of the impact of Sept. 11. The only cargo in his writing that is of any value is his awkward attempt to detail the viciousness of Debbie Schlussel who repeatedly libeled Imad Hamad, the director of the Detroit Chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. The inclusion of the story is rather ironic considering that Youmans is involved in helping to destroy ADC today to advance his own political agenda, pushing the organization to extremism. Of course, the real irony is that there is little difference between Schlussel and Youmans or even Michele Malkin who Youman's also cites for her Islamophobic writings.<br />
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You'll quickly bore of Youman's clumsy writing style, but you should ump to the many other essays which actually offer some true insight and deep perspective.<br />
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The best essay is saved for last, written by the editors, Howell, Shryock and Abraham examining the consequences and lessons of the nation;s misguided, uneducated and misinformed approach to American Arabs, American Muslims, Islam and the intricacies of the Middle East community.<br />
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Published by Wayne State University<br />
Great Lakes Books Series<br />
Detroit, 2011<br />
413 pages.Ray Hananiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4574312060271924683.post-12239314446553507412011-07-27T09:55:00.001-07:002011-07-27T09:55:35.363-07:00Rimal Publications releases two new books Aviation in Middle East and Libya<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=rayhanania" onclick="return addthis_sendto()" onmouseout="addthis_close()" onmouseover="return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=rayhanania" type="text/javascript">
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 12.0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"><a href="http://www.inewsblitz.com/resources/link_threading.php?v=543232fd251015ce71319f3dd1ae6f3a7515070a1cae686f07ce1d422a5d1fb97b17d79f7cb6bc58be335d1d5bf18a69bffbb8509b6e91e97018eb384b9981f2f1137ed86343fa328bedac8f00c820c8d3ab65a7028338ad51d6ab51e31582366ac3efe553cfd2b1bb5ba9abeb7d0bd5598d61559a53797d4287de7e3b03e3daea18cdce22263389bc66d44ded01741b833a5abde2438c51" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">History in the Arab Skies: Aviation’s Impact on the Middle East</span></em></a> </span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">– the latest book by Gerald Butt – is a smooth blend of political history, the story of aviation’s rapid development and personal observations. Above all, it chronicles the region’s association of more than a century with the expansion of flying and how the use of air power proved critical in shaping the modern Middle East. It also relates the role that the region played during the early years of commercial flight when taking to the air was a romantic and luxurious adventure.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"><a href="http://www.inewsblitz.com/resources/link_threading.php?v=543232fd251015ce71319f3dd1ae6f3a7464146b34c0db0b350fd3171fedab188fc66d9be5bb70a6882be75788d261cf3fc64f2905ee1a709cf2d9f76687e175a5f5331a125f8fa89477bc2204816d15cebb8c776c60dc2588cd9d780dfd8d2ddb1d97becce29c2bde71e25094530bbef3875589f6710d3427d6a940e03cf69c3b76277b8d134f692881f9b077ebd680fdbc762e833de423" target="_blank"><em><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Libya’s Hidden Pages of History: A Memoir</span></b></em><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></strong></a>(Arabic Ed)<em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">, </span></em>Mustafa Ben-Halim’s autobiography, provides a personal and graphic view of politics in Libya in the early years of independence. As only the second prime minister in the young monarchy, Mr Ben-Halim tells of his country’s struggles – to combat economic difficulties in the days before oil and to fight off the intrigues of the British and French governments. He also talks frankly about his meetings with international figures of the day, like Anthony Eden and Gamal Abdel Nasser. While a number of books have been written about Libya by outsiders, this is an insider’s account of political life in that country.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nora Shawwa<br />
Publisher</span>Ray Hananiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4574312060271924683.post-74864226932812609452011-07-14T04:34:00.001-07:002011-07-14T04:34:55.087-07:00NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH: SANDSTROM: A Leaderless Revolution in the Digital Age<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=rayhanania" onclick="return addthis_sendto()" onmouseout="addthis_close()" onmouseover="return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=rayhanania" type="text/javascript">
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<div class="MsoPlainText">NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH: SANDSTROM: A Leaderless Revolution in the Digital Age</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">NEW YORK (July 2011) – Authors, Adeel A. Shah and Sheheryar T. Sardar, Esq. will host the launch celebration of their new book: Sandstorm: a leaderless revolution in the digital age on July 30th from 7-9pm at luxury fashion outlet Misha Nicole. The reception will feature a conversation with the authors and will raise funds for Project Peanut Butter, on organization that helps feed children in Africa.</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">Sandstorm examines Arab Spring and the role that social media and the Global Generation played in supporting the revolution in Egypt. The authors have, in a very short time, analyzed how the digital age has changed the dynamics of revolution.</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">"This was not a Twitter Revolution, that was an over-simplified statement made by media pundits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wanted to delve deeper, to understand how something could rise with such fervor across the globe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The answer was more complex than just social media: it was a Global Generation that found its voice." - Adeel A. Shah</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoPlainText">Global Generationers in Egypt and the US were predicted to be the apathetic generation, addicted to the internet and lacking drive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book analyzes how that was a fallacy; not only is this generation one that creates change, its also a generation of socially responsible individuals that have broken down global barriers through social and digital media." – Sheheryar T. Sardar </div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">Sandstorm can be purchased at the book launch event for $14.99 (20% of all proceeds will go to Project Peanut Butter to help feed children in Africa) and is available from Nook for $9.99 and on Kindle for $8.99.</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText">For interviews with Adeel A. Shah and Sheheryar T. Sardar, please contact Rohan Sheth. Media is invited to the book launch and may RSVP on Eventbrite.</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoPlainText">Adeel A. Shah is the Chairman and CEO of TelniaSoft Inc. Adeel has consulted with governmental institutions, dignitaries political action committees, former preidents of developing nations and NGOs – to name a few. He is co-founder of US-Pakistan Business Council and is currently the Vice Chairman in Washington, DC. Adeel has been part of and led several business delegations to Thailand, Hungary, South Korea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, UK, Romania and UAE. He frequently writes on business and geo-political issues for major newspapers and has been interviewed by Bloomberg, Washington Times, CNN, and Geo TV. Adeel’s work primarily involves private equity and venture capital in South Asia and the Middle East. Adeel holds a Masters in International Public Policy from SAIS, John Hopkins and MBA from Carey Business School of John Hopkins.</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoPlainText">Sheheryar T. Sardar, Esq. is a founding Partner at Sardar Law Firm LLC, a New York based corporate and commercial litigation firm. A thought leader on social media and international business, Sheheryar is a nominated board member of the International Trade Committee of the New York Bar Association and an editorial member of Social Media Legal. He has been interviewed by Voice of America on social media law and stock trading and has published numerous articles on international law, social media and venture capital. Sheheryar received his J.D. from Emory University and studied at the University of Paris. </div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br />
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I’m very excited to let you know that the book I’ve written about the journey that led me to J Street – A New Voice for Israel – goes on sale July 19th.<br />
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The book tells a personal story – how the son of a leader of Menachem Begin’s Irgun came to help found the American political lobby pressing for a two-state solution.<br />
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It also takes a critical look at the traditional rules governing American politics and the Jewish community when it comes to Israel – and suggests significant changes to both.<br />
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Finally, it makes an urgent plea to Israel’s supporters to change course now before it is too late to ensure a secure and democratic future for Israel.<br />
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To pre-order the book, please <strong><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=S%2FpHXDXkoyz1Ks%2F6%2FqjTkKdf75zvI8SG">click here</a></strong>. Proceeds from the sale of the book go to J Street, and strong early orders will help the book and our work to gain more publicity.<br />
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Over the course of the coming months, I’ll be traveling the country, giving talks about the book and using it as a springboard to spark important communal conversations about how best to secure Israel’s future, its democratic nature and its Jewish character.<br />
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You can find out more about those events <a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VvhELEAFwyTxWle7XN8X8Bbc3gmP0V5J">here</a>.<br />
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In the book, I write, “My hope is that this book contributes in some small way to opening up minds and conversation in the American Jewish community and beyond about the need not just for such action but for a whole new approach to Israel advocacy in the United States.”<br />
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I’m grateful that such magnificent writers as Peter Beinart, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Ayelet Waldman, Bernard Avishai and Janine Zacharia were kind enough to recommend the book. You can read their comments <a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=COjmKYdPgvR8jEJ2yy9tihbc3gmP0V5J">here</a>.<br />
If you would be interested in reading more, please do consider <strong><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CfQWW9hk3rMMRgyfFwU4kRbc3gmP0V5J">pre-ordering the book</a></strong>. You can also look for it on sale after July 19th.<br />
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Thank you so much for your interest and for all that you do for the cause of peace and security for Israel, its neighbors and the whole Middle East.<br />
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Jeremy Ben-Ami<br />
President, J Street<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">Review of Transparent Cabal by David Lutz</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">There are still a few reviews of and references to my book “The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Cabal-Neoconservative-National-Interest/dp/1932528172">http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Cabal-Neoconservative-National-Interest/dp/1932528172</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A favorable and informative review was written by Dr. David W. Lutz, Senior Lecturer at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, which came out in the journal “Critical Studies on Terrorism,” Vol. 3, No. 3 (December 2010). </div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t780786797~tab=issueslist">http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t780786797~tab=issueslist</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">David W. Lutz, Ph.D., graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1978 and served in the U.S. Army until 1983. In 1994 he received his Ph.D. in moral philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He has held post-doctoral research positions at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and the Hanover Institute of Philosophical Research in Germany. Dr. Lutz currently teaches philosophy and management at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the author of the article<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“UnJust War Theory: Christian Zionism and the Road to Jerusalem,” in the book “Neo-Conned! Again.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Neo-Conned-Again-Hypocrisy-Lawlessness-Rape/dp/1932528059">http://www.amazon.com/Neo-Conned-Again-Hypocrisy-Lawlessness-Rape/dp/1932528059</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The thesis of Stephen J. Sniegoski’s carefully-researched and persuasively-argued book is that the primary aim of the calamitous invasion of Iraq in 2003 was not to avenge an assassination plot against the President’s father, to liberate the Iraqi people, to combat terrorist threats to US security, to enhance US global power, to spread democracy, nor to control oil reserves, but rather to improve the strategic position of Israel: “The origins of the American war on Iraq revolve around the United States’ adoption of a war agenda whose basic format was conceived in Israel to advance Israeli interests and was ardently pushed by the influential pro-Israeli American neoconservatives, both inside and outside the Bush administration” (p. 351). Sniegoski’s assertion is not that the “neocons” deliberately promoted Israel’s interest at the expense of the United States, but rather that they “viewed American foreign policy in the Middle East through the lens of Israeli interest, as Israeli interest was perceived by the Likudniks” (p. 5).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Sniegoski explains: “The aim of the neoconservative/Likudnik foreign policy strategy was to weaken and fragment Israel’s Middle East adversaries and concomitantly increase Israel’s relative strength, both externally and internally. A key objective was to eliminate the demographic threat posed by the Palestinians to the Jewish state, which the destabilization of Israel’s external enemies would achieve, since the Palestinian resistance depended upon external support, both moral and material” (p. 5). Although the neocons saw an identity of interests between the United States and Israel, the countries’ respective interests did not in fact coincide. The United States stood to benefit from stability in the Middle East, so that the flow of oil would not be interrupted; Israel would gain relative strength from instability.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The neoconservatives are a group of Americans (some with strong ties to Israel) who became dissatisfied with socialism and moved to the “right”. One of the founding fathers of neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, who was a self-described “Trotskyist” during his student days at the City College of New York, explains: “Karl Marx once wrote that the human race would eventually face the choice between socialism and barbarism. Well, we have seen enough of socialism in our time to realize that, in actuality as distinct from ideality, it can offer neither stability nor justice, and that in many of its versions it seems perfectly compatible with barbarism. So most neoconservatives believe that the last, best hope of humanity at this time is an intellectually and morally reinvigorated liberal capitalism” (Reflections of a Neoconservative, p. 77). In other words, neocons are “conservative” in the sense that they are conserving liberalism.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Among the more important neocons are Irving Kristol and his wife Gertrude Himmelfarb and their son William Kristol, Norman Podhoretz and his wife Midge Decter and their son John Podhoretz, Elliott Abrams, Kenneth Adelman, John Bolton, Max Boot, David Brooks, Stephen Bryen, Stephen Cambone, Mona Charen, Eliot Cohen, Eric Edelman, Douglas Feith, David Frum, Frank Gaffney, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Jonah Goldberg, John Hannah, Robert and Frederick Kagan, Max Kampelman, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Charles Krauthammer, Michael Ledeen, Lewis Libby, William Luti, Edward Luttwak, Joshua Muravchik, Laurie Mylroie, Richard Perle, Richard and Daniel Pipes, Danielle Pletka, Michael Rubin, Randy Scheunemann, Gary Schmitt, Stephen Schwartz, Abram Shulsky, Max Singer, Kenneth Timmerman, Paul Wolfowitz, James Woolsey, David and Meyrav Wurmser, and Dov Zakheim. They have worked within an interlocking network of think tanks (including the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Security Policy, the Hudson Institute, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, the Middle East Forum, the Middle East Media Research Institute, and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy), as writers for neocon publications such as Commentary and The Weekly Standard, as syndicated columnists, in academe and/or in government.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Sniegoski examines the origins of the strategy of destabilizing Israel’s neighbors within the history of Zionism, including the Revisionist Zionism of Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky. In 1982, Oded Yinon wrote in “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s”, which was published in Kivunim, the journal of the World Zionist Organisation: “Lebanon’s total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precedent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula and is already following that track.” But one of the lessons learned from Menachem Begin’s disastrous 1982 invasion of Lebanon was that future campaigns to strengthen Israel’s strategic position would have to be viewed by Americans as in US national interest. Therefore, one of the challenges of the Israeli right and their neoconservative allies was to persuade Americans that Israeli and American interests coincide.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Iraq war “cabal” was “transparent”, because the neocons’ strategy was laid out in publicly-available documents. In 1996, a study group headed by Perle and including other neoconservatives produced a paper entitled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm”, which was published by the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, an Israeli think tank. Sniegoski comments: “The ‘realm’ that the study group sought to secure was that of Israel. The purpose of the policy paper was to provide a political blueprint for the incoming Israeli Likud government of Benjamin Netanyahu. The paper stated that Netanyahu should ‘make a clean break’ with the Oslo peace process and reassert Israel’s claim to the West Bank and Gaza. It presented a plan by which Israel would ‘shape its strategic environment,’ beginning with the removal of Saddam Hussein and the installation of a Hashemite monarchy in Baghdad.... It should be emphasized that the same people – Feith, Wurmser, Perle – who advised the Israeli government on issues of national security would later advise the George W. Bush administration to pursue virtually the same policy regarding the Middle East” (p. 90).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The neocons came to power with the election of President George W. Bush. Although Bush himself was remarkably weak in the area of foreign policy, the neocons’ agenda agreed with his Evangelical Protestant and Christian Zionist beliefs. Vice President Cheney, although not himself a neoconservative, had strong connections with the neocons and brought many of them into the new administration. The attacks of September 2001 offered the neocons an opportunity to implement their war agenda: “Traumatized as they were by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the American people were ready to believe stories of the most extreme nature” (p. 172). The neocons then shifted the aim from Afghanistan to Iraq, because the former was not and the latter was part of their pre-9/11 agenda. The “war on terrorism” focused on the “axis of evil” – Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and especially the first two – not on those responsible for the 2001 attacks. One of the tactics used by the neocons to persuade the American government and people to focus on Iraq was blurring the distinction between intelligence and propaganda.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Sniegoski does not make the obviously false claim that a small group of neocons launched a war against the will of the American people: “The neocons were the driving force for war, but they could not have achieved success if their agenda did not in some way or other resonate with a significant number of Americans” (p. 331). President Bush was receptive to the neocons’ propaganda, because it gave him a personal mission: to stand firm against an evil enemy. Among other supporters of the invasion of Iraq were Christian Zionists, war profiteers, former Cold Warriors, Republican partisans, some members of the liberal elite, and many ordinary Americans who wanted action to be taken in response to the 11 September 2001 attacks (and who, in many cases, could not distinguish between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Writing this book was an act of courage, because observing that “the entire neocon Middle East agenda originated in Israel as a means of advancing Israel’s geostrategic interests” (p. 331) leads inevitably to accusations of anti-Semitic conspiracy-mongering. Sniegoski anticipates and meets the accusation: “The ‘anti-Semitic’ charge is often an effort, and usually a very effective effort, to silence public discourse on issues displeasing to some influential Jews. But it is necessary to move away from the question as to whether the argument (in fact, any argument) is ‘anti-Semitic,’ to the question of whether it is true” (p. 372). This book has, in fact, nothing to do with anti-Semitism. Although most neocons are Jews, most Jews are not neocons. Many Zionists are not Jews and many Jews are not Zionists. To equate anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is irrational. Sniegoski cites polls indicating that the percentage of American Jews that supported the war was less than the percentage of the entire American population that supported it. It would be appropriate for those who disagree with Sniegoski not to hurl the charge of anti-Semitism against him, but instead to engage his argument and examine the evidence.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A theme recurring throughout the book is that the neocons maintained the identity of American and Israeli interests, when those interests were in fact far from identical. Sniegoski writes, near the conclusion of the book: “Individuals with close ties to foreign states should not be shaping American policy in areas dealing with those foreign states’ interests. This is a clear conflict of interest. None of this is intended to mean that the United States should not be concerned about international morality – with identical standards applied to all countries – but the United States cannot be expected to pursue policies which might increase the security of particular foreign states at the expense of the interests of the United States” (p. 373). One noteworthy characteristic of the debate about the war against Iraq is the almost total absence of considerations of international morality. Although Plato and Aristotle understood politics as ethics writ large, American foreign policy has more to do with Machiavelli and Bismarck than with the philosophia perennis.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One might make a decision about whether to invade another country in terms of the just war tradition, with its criteria of jus ad bellum (justice in going to war) and jus in bello (justice in fighting a war). Instead, the United States usually makes such decisions in terms of the criterion of Realpolitik: Is it in the national interest? The war against Iraq was an exception, however, because it was fought in the interest of a foreign country. Sniegoski explains how the neocons supplanted the traditional foreign policy and national security elite, including James Baker, Brent Scowcroft and Colin Powell. But it is unfortunate that the only viable alternative to the neocons’ agenda was “realism”.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Promoting the national interest would be consistent with moral foreign policy, if the national interest were not reduced to economic interest. Just as it is in no one’s true personal interest to kill an innocent person for financial gain, it is in no nation’s true interest to promote its economic growth by fighting an unjust war. The true national interest of the United States includes promoting justice in international relations, which involves opposing the false belief that nations are justified in starting wars whenever it is in their economic interest to do so. Sniegoski’s book shows how wrong the United States can be when international morality is disregarded.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Sniegoski points out that, in addition to the old foreign policy establishment: “Many American military leaders also opposed the U.S. attack on Iraq. Even members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff initially expressed their opposition to initiating war” (p. 346). These military professionals were right to oppose the war, because it violated the ethics of their profession. But why did not a single senior officer refuse the order to participate in this immoral war? Although there is no question but that the President is Commander-in-Chief of the nation’s armed forces, there is also no question that members of the armed forces are obligated not to obey unethical orders. If this was true in My Lai, Vietnam in 1968 when the unethical order was given by a lieutenant to sergeants and privates, then it was also true in Washington and Iraq in 2003 when the unethical order was given by a president to generals and admirals.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Because the officers were obedient, the United States and a few allies fought a war that was extremely costly to the United States. Thousands of American soldiers were killed and tens of thousands wounded. A colossal sum of money was spent by a government already suffering from huge, chronic budget deficits. And the threat of terrorism was increased, not decreased. The cost to the Iraqi people was far greater, with several hundred thousand casualties. But from the perspective of the Israeli right, the war was a success. The objective of weakening and fragmenting Iraq was accomplished – with the blood of American and British soldiers.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Although the neocons’ preferred candidate, John McCain, was not elected in 2008, with the consequence that the neocons no longer hold key government positions, they are still alive and quite active. As Sniegoski makes the point, “One thing that definitely can be said is that while there is a long history behind neocons’ Middle East policy, that policy – and the neocons themselves – are far from becoming history” (p. 382). In the May 2009 issue of Commentary, Norman Podhoretz criticized President Obama for being soft on Iran: “In making the ridiculous boast during his presidential campaign that he could talk Iran into giving up its quest for nuclear weapons (and the missiles to deliver them), Obama was careful to add that the military option remained available in case all else failed. But everyone, and especially the Iranians and the Israelis, had to know that this was pro forma, and that if elected Obama would pursue the same carrot-and-stick approach of the Europeans who had been negotiating with Iran for the past five years. He would do this in spite of the fact that the only accomplishment of the European diplomatic dance had been to buy the Iranians more time.... Admit it or not, then, the awesome choice of bombing Iran or letting Iran get the bomb is hard upon us.” We need to decide whether we should let the neocons talk us into another unjust war, or whether the time has come to fight terrorism by working for justice in the Middle East.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">David W. Lutz, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Best,</div><div class="MsoNormal">Stephen Sniegoski</div>Ray Hananiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190noreply@blogger.com0