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Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for October 2009

Iranian Mystery Gold, Saudi Media Gold, Turkish Gold, Nabati Poets Society…………

Ebadi and Obama, Nuclear Danger and Human Rights, Irregular Elections vs. No Elections…………

Hamas, Saudi Arabia, and Iran: Vino of Wrath, Rooftop Napa..........

Hamas Creativity in Gaza, Changing Dumb Asses into Colorful Zebras.........

Ahmadinejad Hotter than Merkel, Gulf Royals Dichotomy of Looks, Arabs Dominate Ugly Ducklings, the Pope Beats Kim, the Reliable Swimsuit Test……..

Egyptians Are Not Stupid: Saad Zaghloul Pillow Talk, Saffiyya's Choice………

Lebanese Pay to Play: Violated Land, Violated Skies, Violated Leaders……….

Iran Synchronizes Swine Flu Vaccine with Egypt, Both on April Fool’s Day…….

Princes and Mullahs as Sports Coaches and Managers………..

Iraq Violence Deaths, the Good News, the Bad News, Gulf Fools and Legends……..

World of Confusion, G-08, G-20, G5+1, G-77, G3, G-9.8, G-175, Permanent Interim Committee..........

Cuba Travel Ban, One More Dinosaur to the Museum, What about Communist China and Communist Sweden……….

A Good Daughter, Hunting with Cheney, Keeping America Safe…………

Uranium in Iraq: the Invasion that Brought Freedom, Cancer, and Shoe Missiles?………….

A Generalissimo in Trouble, a Hospital is Closed in Sanaa……….

A Death is Announced, A Torture is Announced…………

Israeli Kettle and Lebanese Pot, What Powderkeg…………

Libya’s Qaddafi More Arab Now Than African, Muammar Africanus…………

Hezbullah Leader Target of Explosion, Party Claims Attempt Failed…….

Struggle for Saudi Arabia, Mufti Blasts KAUST Co-education, Will Keep Job……….

An Egyptian Minister’s April Fool’s Day, Nile Swine and the Flu…………

A Sensible Royal Take on Poverty, Sounds Almost Middle East Republican, Bevin of Arabia……

GCC Gulf Currency Acrobatics, Monetary Policy, Watermelon Economics, Watermelon Ministry..........

Lieberman Looks Forward to Middle East Stalemate, How Can Arab Regimes Become Better Negotiators………….

All Problems Gone, Egypt’s Parliament and Shaikhs Tackle a Curious Chinese Gadget……..

The World According to Dubai………...

Free Muslims Against Free Elections, For Free Oligarchy, For the Time Being………

Short-sighted Iran Rulers Hand Down Death Sentences…….

The American Right Invades Norway, Outsources its Message of 'Hate Obama'…………

Tale of Two Cities, Najaf Bans Liquor, Netanya Bans Pork, Both Look at Baghdad and Tel Aviv…….

Calamity Mom Shot, NRA Loses a Poster Victim, a Moronic Bumper Strip………

To the Right of Hamas, Feistier than Hamas………….

Why Health Care Reform is Dead, the Billy Touzin Syndrome, the Baucus Syndrome..………..

Smartest Cities, Dumbest Cities, Northwest Zeitgeist, World Cities…….

Case of the Bearded Bride, a Dating Fatwa Dilemma, Nixon of Arabia ………

Westmoreland of Afghanistan? McChrystal Afghanicus, Advise from a Saudi Spook, the Ethnic Angle……..

With 'Dr. No' Dead, GOP Nominates 'Failure' for Nobel Prize, Carla Nominates Sarkozy, I Preferred Pete Seeger……

Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Playing Chicken…………

Obama, the Nobel, the Right, Radionazis, Sour Grapes……..

Ardi Trumps Lucy, Evolution Update, Next Middle East Summit……

Higher Education Madrassahs, Relevant Research, World Rankings…………

British Tories: David Cameron Thatcher Reagan Bush Goldman………

Al-Azhar Wavering, the Niqab Controversy…….

Oligarchs of the Arab World, Unite! A Spectre Haunting Their Peoples………

World Muslim Demographics: It’s the Quality, Stupid……….

A Feasible Health Care Alternative, One That Should Work………

Merlin in Arabia, Desperate Plebeians and Potentates……….

When Israeli Ultras Legislate, More Proof of Universality of…..

When Gulf Islamists Legislate, Proof that Asininity is Universal………

Hamas Shoots Down Easy Rider, Womanless in Gaza…..

Sharjah Power Grab, Dubai, Do Buy…………..

Jaws at Jumeirah………….

Mystery of the Missing Iranian Haj, I Smell Uranium, I Smell Defection……..

In Iraq theTimes They are A-Changin’, God and Government as Oligopolies………..

Saudi Courts Judge the World, Gulag Sentences, Funner than Texas, Oprah and Ellen on Notice..……

El-Baradei vs. Mubarak: From IAEA to Political Prisoner, From Vienna to Cairo..........

Terrorism, Hunter’s Melting Pot, Duncan’s Camel Tenders, Waziristan Tailgate Party…….

Conservatives to Rewrite Bible, the Meek Exiled to S F, Jesus Recast as Lobbyist, Peter as Hedge Fund Trader………….

Majority Supports Iran War, History as Tragedy and Farce…….

The Hummer of Burqa’s, Render unto Sarkozy What is French……..

Dauphin on the Nile, Dauphin in Denial…………..

Funny Law in Mesopotamia, Yesterday’s Enemies……

Warships in the Persian Gulf, Dhows in the Gulf of Mexico, Whose neighborhoods Are They?..........

The Mullahs and the Press……………

Shaikhing English Soccer (Football), the World Turned Upside Down Again?……

Charlie Wilson in Yemen, Yemenistan but no Stingers, Triangulation in Arabia Felix………………

Gulf Tensions, Iranian Sleeper Cells in Arab States……….

A Space War: Only in India, Air India…………..

Fog of a Mushroom Cloud, Iran, IAEA, G-20, Astronaut Ahmadinejad ……….

Europe and the Middle East, Not All Human Rights are Equal……

Iran and Texas: the Law West of Pecos, the Law East of Tigris…….

Texas Justice, Texas Dogs, Backwoods Justice, James Bond Justice ………

Patriotic Nation, Vitriolic Nation, Waterloo in Denmark……...

Goldman Sachs Nation, Michael Moore Nation…….

Iran to Send Astronaut into Space, Will it be Ahmadinejad?.........

Dogged British SFO in Pursuit Again, BAE , Tony (Yo) Blair, ‘the Prince’………

Gulf Salafis, the Devil, the Heretics, and les Jeunes Filles……..

Prince of Citibank to Geithner, al-Waleed to Obama………

WTO and Egypt, Where Cotton is King No More……..

Phoenix Still Down: Greenspan’s New Old Tune on ABC, Emperor Still Naked.......

Ahmadinejad the Aryan, the Sephardi, the Babylonian, Price of Tea in China…….

How to Bomb Data Banks, Will El-Baradei be ‘Hans Blix-ed’? Containment as a Dirty Word..…….

KAUST , the Aramco Experience, Walled Campuses, Watermelon Freedoms, Italian and Yiddish in Arabia……….

Bolshevism and Islam: Stalin’s Son, Mubarak’s Son, Qaddafi’s Son, Saleh’s Son, Grass Roots and Qat Roots….…….

The Petraeus Surge, American Money, or Iranian Influence...........

Passionate Summer, Passionate Autumn, Lust and Lobbyists Trumps Iran War and Israeli Peace Again………..

The Hype on Iran: One Arab View, One Israeli View, One Western View……..

Rasputin Punching Sheep in Arabia, It Must b Magic……...

Al-Qaeda’s New Salafi Weapon, Will DHS Post Proctologists at Airports……..

Middle East Views on Obama: American Summer of Love, American Summer of Hatred, Dallas 2009………..

One Petroleum Producer’s View on Energy Dependence……...

A Reverse Tango in Tehran……..

Saudi KAUST Launches a Cultural Sandstorm……..

On Wall Street: the Beat Goes On, the ‘Love’ Story Continues………

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