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Israeli Palestinians, Gaza, Hatikvah in Arabic, the Cheyenne, and Geronimo in Captivity
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7/31/2009 10:48 PM
Gulf Dreams of Boubyan and Nice: Tourist Dream, Tourist Nightmare
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7/31/2009 5:44 PM
Roman Empire vs. Inland Empire: the Chalice, the Wrapper, Class, and Race
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7/31/2009 12:40 PM
Middle East Media, L’affaire Gates, Cambridge’s Finest, Stupidity, Birthers, and Deathers
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7/30/2009 8:29 PM
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Burq’a Defied: What is in a Face. War: Are We There Yet?
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7/30/2009 8:12 PM
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Of Tanning Beds, Political Cancer, and Congressmen
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7/29/2009 8:08 PM
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On Health Care, United Health, Louisiana Governor 'Expletive', and Abe Lincoln
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7/29/2009 3:22 PM
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Lubna The Last Brave Arab: It's a Girl!
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7/29/2009 2:59 PM
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O Happy Middle East: Where Happiness Can be Confusing. What About Texas and Costa Rica?
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7/29/2009 10:34 AM
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Egypt: Children of a ‘Revolution’ Devouring Each Other
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7/27/2009 10:16 PM
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Master Mubarak and Miss Obama: Polls and Pols
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7/27/2009 10:02 PM
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Iraqi General Still Seeking Winnable War: Why Some want His Head
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7/27/2009 9:47 PM
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Allies as Terrorists. Health and the Jock Factor: Sarkozy, Obama, and Middle East Oligarchs
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7/26/2009 12:21 PM
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Of a Saudi Beauty Contest, Conjugal Economies of Scale, Banned Cars, and Legal Jackasses
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7/26/2009 10:29 AM
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Of Hamas, Mass Weddings, Smuggled Viagra, and a Cairo Windfall. Ahmdinejad, Again
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7/25/2009 5:13 PM
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The Stagnant States of Arabia: On Democracy, Islam, Oppression, Economics, Among Other Things
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7/25/2009 2:55 PM
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Déjà vu in Yemen: A Three-Pronged War and Chinese Massage Parlors Threaten a Lingering Dictatorship
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7/25/2009 12:25 PM
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Iran SAT-Style: Louis XIII, Ahmadinejad, Richelieu, and Khamenai. Iran, the Oligarchs, and Hypocrisy?
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7/24/2009 4:10 PM
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On Iran, Shi’ism, Arab Nationalism, Theology, and Re-Engagement
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7/24/2009 1:18 PM
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Living It Up: Of Young Sarkozy and Old Oligarchs
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7/23/2009 8:47 PM
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An Arabian Royal Party Pooper, and a Persian Gulf Tijuana
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7/23/2009 3:46 PM
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On A New Iranian Cyber Revolution and Counterrevolution
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7/23/2009 2:20 PM
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Clinton’s Emerging Persian Gulf Strategy: a Good Umbrella and Sophisticated Weapons as Effective as Lipstick on Pigs
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7/23/2009 12:54 PM
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UN Arab Human Development Puzzle: Somebody Somewhere in Arabia Violates Human Rights and Dignity
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7/22/2009 5:47 PM
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It Is happening in Iran: One Arab View
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7/22/2009 2:27 PM
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An Epic into a Soundbite: Waterloo, Gettysberg, Obama, Bonaparte, Austerlitz, GOP, Healthcare, Lobbyists, Lobbyists…..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
7/21/2009 9:21 PM
Iran’s Political Game of Chess: Khamenai Demoted, Revolutionary Guards Going Chinese. That Elusive Persian Genie. Netanyahu as The Last Great White Hope
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7/21/2009 11:41 AM
Of Sorcery, Mullah Omar, and a Texas Salafi
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7/20/2009 2:21 PM
Love in the Time of Choleric Anglo-Saudi Ties
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7/20/2009 2:08 PM
Of Kosher Arab Arms Deals. A U.S. Senate Ban on Hybrid Man-Dog-Jackass-Brontosaurus
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7/19/2009 5:33 PM
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Iraq, Article Seven, and the Lesson of Versailles. Ahmadinejad’s ‘Wise Iranian’ Resigns
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
7/19/2009 8:55 AM
On Ahmadinejad, His Israel Lobby, John Bolton, Mr Hearst, Havana Harbor, and Remembering the Maine
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7/18/2009 6:10 PM
Border Coyotes of the Middle East: Jewish Settlers and Palestinian Wawis
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7/18/2009 8:28 AM
Mother of All Scandals on the Gulf. Desert Moby Dick May Surpass Others
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7/17/2009 4:56 PM
Angry Iran: What Rafsanjani Said Today. Stagnant Egypt: Balancing Hunger and Anger
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7/17/2009 3:22 PM
Food Insecurity on the Persian Gulf: A Non-Issue of National Security in the Twilight Zone
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7/17/2009 11:03 AM
Israel and Iran: The Flip Flop War. Will She or Won’t She?
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7/16/2009 9:31 PM
Ahamadinejad’s Second Chance. Suspicious Egypt Arrests More Usual Suspects
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7/16/2009 1:36 PM
Tale of an Arabian Odyssey: The Arts of Ecstasy and Agony in the New Middle East
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7/16/2009 12:24 PM
On NASA, Saudi Prince Moonbeam, Road to Mecca, Miss Baker, Able, and My Best Hero Laika. Earth to Qom
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7/16/2009 9:25 AM
Atrocious in Gaza. Norwegian Hijab vs Egyptian Bikini. Shah of Africa, Wild Goats, and Mummies
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
7/15/2009 9:00 PM
“Sophie’s Choice” for Obama: Iran or Palestine? Defining Democracy and ‘Nuclear’. Stewart and Colbert Come Through
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7/15/2009 11:27 AM
Israel-Palestine: On Suicides, Refugees, Depressing Lieberman, and Solomonic Mubarak
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7/14/2009 9:22 PM
The Gulf of Fools: An Iraqi General Looking for a Winnable War
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7/14/2009 6:16 PM
On Senators, Judge Sotomayor, Numchuks, Wise Latinas, and (Possibly) Dumb White Men
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7/14/2009 2:31 PM
Bastille Day, Baghdad Day, Ekaterinberg Day: Rewriting History. Goldman Sachs Exposed, Again…
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7/14/2009 7:33 AM
France, the Burqa, the Abaya, and Siham Rifqi: Vive Le Commerce
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7/13/2009 9:17 PM
Salafi Healthcare on the Gulf: a Painful Glimpse
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7/13/2009 6:30 PM
Inviting a Coup in Qatar?
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7/13/2009 4:00 PM
Gulf Rivalry. Qatar the Wild Card and her Arabian Hillary Clinton. Oman’s Wider Horizons. UAE Reassertion in Crisis. Bahrain’s Small-Minded Elite and Their Hessian Mercenaries
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7/13/2009 2:37 PM
On Alienation and Revolution: Arab Rulers as Slum Lords. Shades of Ante-Bellum South?
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7/12/2009 3:09 PM
Little Doggies of Isfahan: Iran Clones a Calf
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7/12/2009 10:57 AM
Is Jerusalem Going Wahhabi?
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7/12/2009 9:31 AM
Gulf Financial and Industrial Sectors: Recession, Stimulus, and Denial
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7/12/2009 9:01 AM
Is America Getting Sillier: Jackson and Kim Jong-Il? Israel, Iran, Netanyahu, and Bush: Mother of All Follies
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
7/11/2009 5:36 PM
Oligarchs Awating Godot to Strike Iran: Of Potentates, Jews, and Magis
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7/11/2009 12:07 PM
An Israeli Mandela: of NATO, West Bank Settlements, and Golan Wine
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
7/11/2009 11:29 AM
No Love Lost: Obama and The 'Other' Israel. Netanyahu and His Russian Hostage-Takers
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
7/10/2009 8:49 PM
On Gulf Investors, Expatriates, Autocrats, and Mother Sun
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7/10/2009 4:07 PM
WEF reports on the Gulf: Economics, Equality, and Dickensian Royal Laws
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
7/10/2009 1:46 PM
On Economic Growth Models on the Gulf
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7/10/2009 1:05 PM
Mubarak to Hand Over Power to Son? Kim Jong-Who on the Nile?
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7/8/2009 9:14 PM
Another Ugly Hate Crime in Germany
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7/8/2009 8:43 PM
On Artistic Freedom, Political Courage, Love to Death, and Polygamy in the Middle East
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7/8/2009 5:26 PM
A Genetic Donnybrook Of Jews, Spaniards, Arabs, and Persians. Candidate Son of a Gun
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7/7/2009 10:05 PM
Ahamadinjad is Back! He Promises Too Little, But Is It Too Late? On Iran, Israel, 'Night', and War
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7/7/2009 6:08 PM
Ahmadinejad Laying Low. Rajavi Meets Prince Muqrin? Al-Waleed Under Fire? Tegucigalpa Fever: On GOP Incoherence, Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, and Mohammed Mossadegh
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
7/7/2009 2:54 PM
Gulf Ba’athists Without Saddam: Rehabilitation in Exile. The JFK Analogy
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
7/7/2009 9:39 AM
Liaisons Dangereuses with Israeli Wives and Goyim Husbands, Saudi Adult Conjugal Education Classes, Super Burqa' Meets Zorro
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
7/6/2009 4:34 PM
On Israeli Flyovers, Liaisons Dangereuses with Mossad, and a Simple Azhar Handshake
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7/6/2009 1:48 PM
Silly in America: Jacko, Camus, Sinatra, and Halloween as a National Holiday
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7/6/2009 1:12 PM
The Two Cold Wars of the Persian Gulf. Of Hegemony, Currency Union, and Claustrophobia
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7/5/2009 7:02 PM
Post Saint Jacko: What About Reagan and the Middle Class?
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7/5/2009 9:31 AM
Arab Economics 101: a Yemeni Solution, an Egyptian Solution, a Typical Arab Solution, a Herod Solution
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7/5/2009 8:54 AM
Iran Looks Inward and Cracks Down: Ahmadinejad the Lame Duck. CAIR in Every Garage: A Quran in Every Library?
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7/4/2009 7:05 PM
Khobar Tower Bombing Revisited: On al-Qaeda, Hezbullah, and Bait & Switch
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7/4/2009 12:23 PM
Democracy, Marriage, English Aristocrats, and Faking 'It' in Arabia. Are We All Honduras?
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
7/4/2009 8:48 AM
Sarah Palins of the Middle East and the Power Pyramid. Political 'Cling-Free' in Arabia
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7/4/2009 7:38 AM
On Hezbullah’s Arsenal, Dissolving a Parliament and Stalag 13, and Filibuster-Proof Royal Sports Awards
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
7/3/2009 6:18 PM
Hugo Chaves of Arabia: On Charisma, Corruption, and Popular Adages
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7/3/2009 4:24 PM
Arlington. Saint Michael Jackson and Islamic Shari’a
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
7/2/2009 6:08 PM
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