Middle East Focus-Arabia Deserta: Monthly Archives for October 2009

Saddam and Qaddafi, a Path to Pulitzer, a Path to Nobel, Happy Halloween…….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/31/2009 8:41 PM

Clinton and Iran: the Thrill is not Gone…………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/31/2009 8:23 PM

Saudi Views on Iran WMD………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/31/2009 5:54 PM

One Middle East View on Iran WMD………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/31/2009 5:35 PM

Pro-Israel Lobbies, Will J Street Dethrone AIPAC?.............

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/31/2009 12:44 PM

Ghosts of IRA, A Season of Libyan Money, a Season of European Extortion, Why Not Boston……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/31/2009 11:35 AM

Politicizing the Hajj, Ahmadinejad in Toga and Cuirass…………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/31/2009 9:33 AM

Clinton in Tehran and Islamabad, a Worthless War, Another Blackwater War……………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/31/2009 8:03 AM

North African Donkeys, Unwise Corporate Asses, Government Asses…….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/30/2009 8:32 PM

Wild West Years in Iraq, War Scandals, Old New Barbarians, It Takes a Thief………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/30/2009 2:01 PM

Rashomon in Gaza, Three Tales of One War……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/30/2009 12:15 PM

Zamzam Arrives, Beaujolais Nouveau Est Arrivé, France and Arabia……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/30/2009 11:05 AM

Gaza Football League, Hamas Cheerless Leaders, Taliban and NFC in the Pacific Northwest………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/30/2009 9:15 AM

Hajj 2009, Mecca and Jerusalem, Revenge of the Shunned Pigs……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/30/2009 8:32 AM

Christmas at the Bin Ladens, No AYSO Games……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/29/2009 8:02 PM

The Pope and the Mullahs, Eggs Benedict and Turbans Flambe………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/29/2009 3:53 PM

Islamist Politics and Single Mums of Malaysia…………….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/29/2009 10:44 AM

Analysis of a Housemaid Issue in the Gulf, Sarah’s Joe, Lucky Guzzler Dog………….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/29/2009 10:20 AM

Feminists, Concubines, Middle East Political Eunuchs………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/29/2009 8:28 AM

Iran’s Wild Southwest, Cultural Heritage Destroyed, Mullahs Go Taliban……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/28/2009 5:55 PM

Lieberman, American Health Care, Israeli Health Care, American Right Wing, Israeli Left Wing……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/28/2009 12:17 PM

Hezbullah Plot Against America, a Handgun, a Box of Ammunition, a B Movie..……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/28/2009 8:32 AM

Faith and Disease, Old Testament, New Testament, Our Testament…….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/28/2009 7:22 AM

Palestinian Elections, Saudi Elections………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/28/2009 6:59 AM

Custodian of the One Holy Mosque, Notre Dame and the Grand Mosque of Algiers…….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/28/2009 6:51 AM

Sibling Spies of Kabul and Havana...........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/27/2009 7:42 PM

Casus Belli, New Lockerbie Investigation and Ghosts of Iran Air 655, How a Westerner is Worth 50 Times More…………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/27/2009 11:04 AM

NATO Split on Iran, Straight Turk Express? Moving Forward to the Past..................

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/27/2009 8:53 AM

Iraq is Worse than it Looks, Kim Jong-Il, Israel, Nabati Poets Society………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/27/2009 6:50 AM

Iran the Atomic Flavor of This Year and Next…………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/26/2009 8:17 PM

Archaeology Wahhabi Style, History Evicted for Profits……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/26/2009 7:39 PM

Saudi Reporter Evades a Whippping, Ikhwani Judge Gets Royal Order………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/26/2009 3:27 PM

Beau Geste of the Persian Gulf, the Ballad of Sarkozy and Obama, OTAN…….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/26/2009 11:51 AM

A Woody Allen Effect, Arab Election Shock and Awe, Running for office, Sitting on Office, Smothering …………….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/26/2009 6:16 AM

Iran Accuses Big Satan, Medium Satan, and Two Neighbors……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/25/2009 5:30 PM

Religious Police Tries Sexy New Look, Try Madison Avenue……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/25/2009 5:04 PM

Bombers of Iraq, Trains of Egypt, Cows of Ranjipur………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/25/2009 12:12 PM

Qaddafi’s Nuclear Logic, Conventional Victories, Unconventional Defeats, Pax Arabiana………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/25/2009 11:10 AM

Euphrates, Tigris, and a River of Blood……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/25/2009 9:33 AM

Afghan Green Coat of Many Colors, the Tajik Peter Lorre, General Thieu of Kabul……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/25/2009 9:22 AM

Financial Crisis: Collateral Damage, Collateral Beneficiaries, a Bullet Theory…………….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/25/2009 8:53 AM

New Iran Aggression Reported, Balmer Goes Bald, Gates Goes Neuman……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/24/2009 5:31 PM

A Genocidal War of Yemeni Succession, Arab Oligarchs Cheer, West is Silent……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/24/2009 3:43 PM

North to Nineveh, Reshaping Eyeraq…..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/24/2009 11:14 AM

A League of ‘Democratic’ Arab Oligarchies, Making a Case Against Freedom………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/24/2009 10:34 AM

True Love in Tehran………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/24/2009 9:24 AM

Qaddafi Spreading the Bull, Ahmadinejad the Humble?..........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/23/2009 3:45 PM

Financial Brain Drain, Quick Buck Brains, Flush Them with Drano………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/23/2009 11:25 AM

Two Elderly Ladies, an Umrah Pilgrimage, a Royal Usurpation of a Rare Victory……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/23/2009 11:04 AM

A State of Siege: Financial Pearl Harbor, Muslim Spies, Israeli Spies, Four Moronic Congressmen of Apocalypse..……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/23/2009 10:23 AM

Financial Non-Reform, Untouchables Soiled, Eliot Ness is Dead……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/23/2009 8:36 AM

Rising Arab 'Berlin' Walls, Saada Wall, Iraq Walls, Israeli Wall, Globalization and De-Arabization………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/23/2009 7:15 AM

A Reluctant King: More Political Tensions on the Gulf……………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/22/2009 8:01 PM

Iranian Threats, Mullah Admirals, Arab Potemkin Navies, Somali Pirates, Horn of Africa……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/22/2009 5:17 PM

Quayle-ing Dick Cheney, Redrafting Cheney, Endangered Friends……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/22/2009 12:56 PM

A Baghdad Embassy, Shady Contractors and Pliant Supervisors, America’s Banditry Years, a Goldman Man and a Nun’s Donkey………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/22/2009 8:50 AM

Hezbullah and Michelle Sisson: Not a Love Story…………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/22/2009 7:27 AM

The Freest Couple in All Arabia, a Rare Gulf Love Story……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/22/2009 6:46 AM

American States with a Dubious Distinction, Unchaste Bible Belt, Sarah's Mate.........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/21/2009 1:14 PM

Algeria, the President, the Peasants, the Impossible Insult……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/21/2009 12:00 PM

White Man’s War, Dark Man’s War, Clean War, Dirty War………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/21/2009 10:13 AM

Econometrics of Petroleum and Sex, Price of crude and Summer Weddings……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/21/2009 8:15 AM

Goldman Sachs Speak, New Finance Speak, Big Brother of America, Dream Killers of America………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/21/2009 7:23 AM

Mideast War Camp Pinning Hopes on Tail to Wag Dog, Will Israel Oblige? Will Dog Oblige...........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/20/2009 4:34 PM

Hezbullah and Israel, Liberating Hummus and Falafel, Protecting Tabbouleh, Baba Ghanouj Endangered……………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/20/2009 1:33 PM

Chatting and Sinning in Jordan, The Joys of Being Surly on a Desert Island……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/20/2009 12:04 PM

Assad Pinup Photos Shock King Abdullah, Financing Democracy Abroad, Fighting Democracy at Home…….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/20/2009 9:32 AM

Sistani and Khamenei, Tito and Stalin, De Gaulle and LBJ……………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/20/2009 8:56 AM

Henry VIII Returns to Rome, What About Spain, Shi’as, and Sunnis, Crowned Heads...........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/20/2009 8:21 AM

A Call to War, a Call to Bombers, a Cold French Dou.......Shower……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/20/2009 7:54 AM

Book Cleansing, Ethnic Cleansing, History Cleansing………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/20/2009 7:38 AM

Republicans for Rape? Taliban in DC......

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/20/2009 6:53 AM

In Defense of (Most) Economists, the Crash of 2008...............

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/19/2009 6:31 PM

Counting Bean Out, Swine Flu and Banking Reform……………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/19/2009 1:07 PM

Facebook and Pitchforks, Dictators and Non-Elections, Platters Go Egyptian..........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/19/2009 12:48 PM

New American Plutocracy Trumps American Democracy, An Illusory Party.....…….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/19/2009 8:41 AM

Israel Plans to Devour Hungary and the World, Philosophers, Anti-Semites, and Idiots …….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/19/2009 8:12 AM

Iraqis Seek Nuremburg Style Mass Trials of Foreign Leaders....……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/19/2009 7:46 AM

Another Corrupt Gatekeeper: Et Tu Moody’s?..........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/18/2009 6:14 PM

Loving Guantanamo, a Thorn in the Throat, What the Secret Service Can Learn from Saudis….…..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/18/2009 12:13 PM

The Hub of World Terrorism, al-Qaeda and Jundullah, Mission for DeMint...………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/18/2009 10:55 AM

Gulf Monetary Union, Choice of a City Without Soul, Oman as the English Bride……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/18/2009 8:32 AM

To Strike or not to Strike (Iran), To Sanction or Not to Sanction……….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/17/2009 8:20 PM

Colonel Qaddafi to Rule the World, Son to Rule Libya……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/17/2009 8:01 PM

Roughing it With Bin Laden, Evil One of Waziristan, Clueless One of Texas, Tora Bora and Harvard MBA.........

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/17/2009 3:15 PM

Kuwait Politics: Entitlement Politics, Plutocrats against Demographics, Cerebrally Challenged Politics………….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/17/2009 10:15 AM

Saudi-Syrian Divide: Back to Square One…………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/17/2009 9:09 AM

An Australian Nuclear Fantasy? ……………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/17/2009 8:07 AM

Where in the World of Nuclear Physics is Shahram Amiri………….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/16/2009 8:49 PM

Why the Taliban Ride Mules, Cost of Gasoline in Kandahar, the Deficit.………..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/16/2009 2:46 PM

American Banks, Dumb Silent Majority, Banking on Risk-based Heaven and Basel…….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/16/2009 1:55 PM

A Halloween Succession in Egypt, Trick or Treat for Baby.............

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/16/2009 12:32 PM

Islamic Liberation with a Twist, Topless in Somalia……

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/16/2009 7:45 AM

The Glory of Lebanon, Kibbe and Bridal Gowns…….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/16/2009 7:18 AM

Where Stupidity Thrives on the (Persian) Gulf, Falafels and Watermelon Rules…………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/16/2009 6:57 AM

Red State, White State, a Judicial Lynching…….

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/16/2009 6:33 AM

Ahmadinejad on Psychological Operations, Mubarak a Blank Page…..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/15/2009 8:17 PM

A Funny French Duck Predicts Christmas Middle East War, Salafis and Skirts at War……...

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/15/2009 4:06 PM

Iranian General Challenges All Comers, Of Archers and Persian Cataphracts………

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/15/2009 3:24 PM

In Praise of Cyprus Donkeys, Ubiquitous Middle East Asses, Oligarchs and Plutocrats……..

Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 10/15/2009 12:58 PM

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