A view of Sheikh Zayed Road - a major highway in Dubai that has been the site of rapid urban development. (Image credit: Al Miller) Passing remarks, it turns out, can make a lasting impression. I had come to appreciate such remarks while conducting my dissertation fieldwork in Dubai during the course of 2010. That year saw me regularly engage ... Continue reading »
The opposition website Kaleme also reported on Monday that a number of activists have been arrested in Iranian provinces and some summoned for questioning. Ali Ghazali, the editor of the conservative website, Baztab, also remains in jail since his arrest in early May. Meanwhile, Iran News Network, a pro-government website, reported that several cam ... Continue reading »
The leaked video shows a huge, powerfully armed convoy headed from Lebanon to Al Quysar with Obama's blessing, assuming you see cries of "Please stop!" as tantamount to endorsement. Arab government and those of France and England need to watch this video and then tell the craven Obama and his clueless secretary of state to get lost. https://ww ... Continue reading »
The movie is filled with examples of and references to methods of communication: Books, faxes, cell phone messages, answering machines, intercoms, misunderstood jokes, traffic signals, the honking of car horns. A copy of a famous 1900 Japanese painting titled "Training a Parrot" by Chiyo Yazaki hangs on the professor's wall; the woman in the painti ... Continue reading »
On the last available day, ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani arrived at the ministry of the interior to register himself as a presidential candidate. Rafsanjani was the Islamic republic’s fourth president, from 1989 to 1997, and is now once again standing as a ‘reformist’. In reality he is the candidate of capitalism and probably still one of the riches ... Continue reading »
Iranian Oscar-winner Asghar Farhadi drew enthusiastic applause Friday for one of the most-keenly awaited films at Cannes, with a Paris-set tale about shifting relationships. Duration: 00:54 ... Continue reading »
One has to find remarkable the incompetence of the Republicans in their sourcing and reporting of facts. In the aftermath of Benghazi and in the midst of the “investigation,” we’ve seen Rumsfeld and Cheney (Jon Stewart’s ‘Tweedlerum and Tweedledick’) making incredible statements about the Libyan event while assuming that everyone has forgotten abou ... Continue reading »
CANNES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi premiered his latest tightly wound family drama at Cannes on Friday, confirming critics' advance buzz it would prove a contender for the film festival's top prize.
The prestigious festival on the French Riviera - where the sun finally emerged on day three - is looking to spot its Pa ... Continue reading »
The new Kiosk documentary "Kiosk, A Generation Destroyed By Madness" is a wonderful behind the scenes peek into one of our best rock bands. If like me you have followed the rise of Kiosk ever since their ground breaking debut album "Adameh Mamooli", and own every album since, you naturally want to see and hear and read and watch more. This film d ... Continue reading »
Time Magazine has obtained an exclusive interview with Khalid al Hamad, a commander of the Omar al Farouk brigade of the Free Syrian Army, who was caught on video trying to eat a dead Syrian soldier’s heart.
And the Islamist cannibal tells Time that he…
1. Thought he was eating a liver not a heart (or lungs?), which puts him in slightly more logi ... Continue reading »
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