Book Review: Kill Khalid

It happened quickly. On a lazy Thursday afternoon, rx somewhere in Amman’s Tla Al Ali district, viagra sale Hamas leader Khalid Mishal saw nothing more than a blur of movement as he emerged from his car only to be faced with two unknown...

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Book Review | Samir Kassir’s “Being Arab”

On June 2, pilule 2005, just weeks after the Cedar Revolution resulted in the withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon, prominent Al Nahar journalist Samir Kassir started his car at 10:30am and seconds later he was dead. An outspoken critic of the...

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Book Review | Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol

One of my new year’s resolutions is to read a lot more. The problem is that I tend to make this resolution every year but life tends to get in the way. So this year I figured my blog could come in handy by providing me the space to review what...

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A Post 9/11 World: The Graphic Adaptation

FP Passport has an interesting feature on what is best described as “graphical journalism”. The book, “After 9/11”, is essentially a graphical representation of the 9/11 Commission report. You can hear about the...

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The Arabized Harry Potter Gets Banned

Remember this big cultural phenomenon about a boy wizard named Harry Potter? Well, if you do, you might be interested to know that the Arabic version of Harry Potter has just been banned. Ponder that for a moment. I know. It’s heavy. Let it...

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