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

An Arab Strangelove Opines, Why I Evoke the “Shoe” Again……

Saddam Searching For Charisma on Television, Rating Boring Arab Leaders..........

Dubai Effect, Financial Markets and Centipedes, is There Another Shoe?………..

Iranian Outrage, Expanding Navy on the Cheap, the Legal and International Prerequisites..........

We Should All be Singapore............

Palestine: A Good Start to Break the Ice, Very Nice, Indeed……….

Highly Paid Custodians of Holy Places…….

Auld Lang Syne in Southern Arabia………..

Dynasty and Danny Kaye: What are a Few Weeks Among Friends……

The Saga of Shirin and the Mullahs: She Said, They Said, She Said…..

Financial Semantics: Dubai’s Crisis is Pimco’s Correction……

Gulf Banks: Jumping Ship, In Denial, or Both?……..

A Saudi Arabian Katrina, A Prince and the Paupers………..

Hajji-San Goes to Mecca………..

Unequal Defiances, More Nuclear Plants, Expanding Settlements……………

Can a Border Safeguard Canada Against Idiocy? Palin, Common Sense, and Nonsense.. ……..

Iran Human Rights Report, Saudi Arabia Next, the ‘Not Goldstone’ Report, What About Kim?.........

Dubai Crisis and Gulf Banks, the Plutocrat Next Door, the Shaikh next Door………

Fat Afghans, Pashtuns with Beer Bellies………

Of Abu Dhabi, a Gorilla, Beirut, Debts, and the Louvre Sans l’ambiance……….

More on the Newest Guerrilla War……

Limits of Credibility: al-Qaeda with Houthis, Waffen SS with Haganah, and Qawuqji………

Iran to Leave NPT?........

A Likely Swedish Story…………

On Obama, Israel as a Red State, and the New York Times……….

Iraqi Henchmen in Exile, Missing the Days of Genocide, Gulf Delusions...…….

A Terrified Hillary, a Bold Moroccan Cockroach, a Ruthless Bahraini Shaikh………

Culture and Art: Little Mermaid Raided………..

Will Dubai Trigger a World Commercial Real Estate Bust? Public Welfare for Gulf Merchant Classes..........

Churchill of Arabia, Rulers Who Think for People Who Don’t Bother………

Saudis Seeking a Coalition of the Willing for Yemen War? Signs of Trouble?........

Tale of Two Protests: Mecca and Tehran……..

Honduras Coup, Rigged Elections, Happy Banana Days Are There Again…………

Bank Robbery in Tehran: Ignoble Confiscation of a Nobel……..

Lebanese Politics: What About Tom Friedman’s Victory Lap?..........

Kingdom Without Magic, Saudis to Behead Merlin and Others, What About Dr. Phil and Chopra………

Hummus Heads, Matzo Heads, Trader Joe’s Thanksgiving……..

U.S Economy: Barack Reagan, Barack Hoover, or Barack Delano Roosevelt?..............

USA Turkey Day, Middle East Turkey Days………

Fatal Floods in the Saudi Desert…….

Gulf Finance: Yabba Dabba Dubai………

Egypt’s Cain and Abel? L'Homme au Masque de Fer?.............

An American Eid? A Best Buy Eid.........

Egypt to Release 11 Political Prisoners, Many Thousands Remain…….

Hezbollah and PlayStation, Houthis and Qat, Nabati Sleeper Cells…….

Iran’s Mock Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution………..

A Quagmire in Yemen, What About Iraq?………….

Obama Does the Hajj, Fox News Does Infarct……..

The First Illegal Immigrants, Squanto and Rosenberg.............

Cluster Bombs, Landmines, Axis of Evil?………..

Shalit and the Rabbis………..

Future of Dubai, Shaikhing Things Up………

On Extolling Kings: Kissing “It” in the Media, Arabian Bulemia………….

On God and Caesar’s Love Life……….

Iran Dumping the Dollar, Almost…………..

GCC Troubles Resurface: Issues of Sovereignty, Independence, and Bullying..……..

Iran Censorship: Intolerance, or Foreign Policy, or Both?………...

When the Senate Forgot Palestine, Talked Einstein’s Relativity Theory, Relations with the Cosmos ……….

Fear and Loathing on the Gulf, Uncomfortable Democracy ………..

My UFO Sighting Over the Gulf………..

A Good Saudi Example for America……....

Kissing the Mubaraks', Shameful “Piece” of Journalism………

Chataeu Maroc, Chateau Chine, Chateau Riyadh, Chateau Mullahs…….....

A Shi’a Catholic Crescent of Liberation Theology?..........

Ahmadinejad Kickback, Does the Mande and the Samba…………..

Mullahs of the Pacific, Coconut Shaikhs, America’s M&M………

The Battle for Pakistan, the Iranian Game, the Taliban Game…………

Will Israelis Join the Iran Maneuvers?...............

Bailout Follows Hubris on the Persian Gulf……....

Giving Birth in Space, Nervous Floating.........

Ayatollah Montazeri, a Phoenix Without the Fire……..

A Blast from the Past, Ilyich Ramirez Loses his Way, What Would Ulyanov Say………

Blame it on Obama, Where is the Uranium……………

Egypt’s Swine Vindicated, Regime Owes Porcine Citizens an Apology………..

Idle Shaikhs, Sly Women, Simple Fatwas,………

A Doctor Dies………..

Interpreting Dreams, Purveyor of Cures……….

The President, the Game, the Joke, almahrousa……..

Where Petroleum Money Can’t Buy You Love, Not on Halloween……..

America’s Warrior Underclass, Brave Gladiators, Will Tax Cuts Help?...…….

Border War, Qat Economics, Tax Cuts and Donkeys………

Mosques Among the Alps, a Blackmail the Swiss Could not Refuse……......

An Iranian Approach to Unrest, a Typical Regional "Solution"...………

President Awake, Delivers Speech, Watermelon Economics………

Let Them Have Education and Science and Space, We Have Sexier Tax Cuts……..

When Free Speech is “Blasphemy”, Political Correctness and Intolerance…….

Yemen 2009, Spain 1939, Arabian Genocide, Tribal Liberals……….

Singing Imam, Singing on the Gulf……..

Booze and the Heart, Fatwa from Argent de Poche....………

FIFA Stupidity: Egyptian Regime Made the Country Look Silly……..

Of Lawsuits and Trade Deals, Cultural Gaps, No Brokeback Alps………..

The Third and Last Invasion of Yemen………

How to Stone a Woman, a Live Salafi Show......….

A Brave Russian Judge, John Roberts and the Supremes, You Keep Me Hanging On……....

A French Traveling Salesman, Deep Discussions, Arms Deals, Fat Commissions………….

Mullahs Rule the Waves Also?…….

Iran Media Headlines……...

The Other Tehran: Student Arrests……….

Gulf Higher Education, the Highness Road, the Dedication Road……..

Equality is Here, Women to Proselytize.……..

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