Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus-Arabia Deserta: Monthly Archives for March 2010

Mystery of Iran Nuclear Scientist Solved, Or is It? What about Future Sins?.................

On Sarkozy, the French Right, and the Burq’a Menace, Tea and Wine Parties………..

Is There Really Torture on the Persian Gulf? Do Bears do It in the Forest?…..………..

Bahrain Blogs Blocked by Regime……

Democracy in Arab States: is Bad Better than Worse? that Famously Missing Humor.......

GCC Gulf Monetary Union Charade, Of Sovereignty and Hegemony………..

Europe Under Siege: Burq’as and Capris, Blue Moon and Pedophile Rings , and Julius Caesar….

Israeli Warmongers, Israeli Peacemongers, American Bunker Busters…………………

Raising Expectations in Iraq, and Dashing Them………..

Iran to Raise Petrol Prices, Sanctions Expected, Elections Eyed………

Iraq Election Misconceptions and Illusions: Facts and Fatwas……………..

Sadrists’ Five Finalists to Lead Iraq…………

America’s Mom of the Year………

Busy Death Squads of Iran…….

Uncivil Society: Moderate New Middle East Gets More Repressive..........

The Algerian Mossad, the Salafi Mossad, Nostalgic Pieds-Noirs……….

The Ba’ath Shall Rise Again? the Israeli Precedent…………..

The Elephant in Tripoli, Iraq and her Neighbors, Writing on the Wall in Jerusalem…..…….

Georgia on Their Minds, Preferably Unarmed, When McCain Came Out………

Two Iraqi Phoenixes? Pro-Iranian Democrats, Ba’athist Democrats, Spreading the Bull…………

Turning Jumblatt: Iran, Lebanon, Etc……….

Iranian Great Leap Forward? Chairman Mao is Dead……….

Political Coups and Counter-Coups in Iraq and “The Nation”, J’accuse………

Legitimizing Pre-emptive Aggression, of Iran and Arrogance…….

Lieberman (not Joe) Rats on Abu Mazen, Exposes Palestinian and Arab Duplicity………

On Netanyahu, AIPAC, the American Right, et al…………..

Those Israeli Rightists and their Indispensable Goats, Dung Gate..………..

One Day in the Life…………..

New Mummy for Egyptian Museum: Guess Whose?..........

Sharjah Justice: Seventeen Eyes for an Eye……………

Untrue Lies: the Egyptian Synagogue Issue………….

Israeli Plan to Green Arabia, Oil Wells and Olive Trees…………

Western Delusions of Change in Iraq: Beirut 2009, Baghdad 2010…………

Dutch Fatwa, Imam and Shaikh get Halal Erotica………….

Rogue Urinals, Rogue Politicians, Art of “Going” Rogue ………..

Absent Iran Splits Arab Summit while Italy’s Berlusconi Naps………..

Arab Summits: a Thirty-Five Year Farce………….

Is Iran Thumbing its Nose Again?............

Pope Benedict Goes Nixonian……………..

Russia Bans Booklet by Little Disgruntled Austrian, Again………..

French Anti-Niqab Push Reaches Québec Libre……………

Wahhabi Fundamentalism Invades the Balkan, Petro Dollars Work Wonders………..

al-Maliki Plays Rough in Vain, My Allawi Fatwa Now Covers Him…………

Iraq’s John McCain and 007, Complete with the BS.........

Middle East History: Revolutionary Princes, a Defecting Air Force, and Old Tyranny……….

Playing Possum, Good Samaritan Arrested……

Tweeting the Stars and the Potentates.........

UAE: Sahara Swallows Leader of World’s Largest Sovereign Fund………

Perils of Umm al Qaiwain, Dangerous Goats of UAE……………

Iraq’s Factions Court Kingmaker Muqtada al-Sadr………..

Netanyahu Hazed in Washington: Tit for Tat, Dog Bites Tail…………….

Chinese Pigs with Lipstick and Deodorant…………..

Dutch Witches Get Tax Breaks, Saudi Sorcerers Get Beheaded………..

Iraqi Shi’a Groups See American-Saudi Plot to Accommodate the Ba’ath…………..

Waiting for a Lightening in Rome…………..

Iraq Vote Results: Biggest Ba'athist Upset or Biggest Forgery? Rove and Costa Rica........

The Economics of Drones, Iranian UAVs, Pakistani Nukes, Terrorists……………..

A Lenin King, a Spartacus King, a Robespierre King, a Burger King……………

Vatican Blames Media for Its Pedophile Sex Scandal....…….

Qaddafi Falls in Love with Saddam, Posthumously……..

Limbaugh of La Mancha: Hopelessly Seeking a Country without Public Health……

Persian Gulf Bailout: No Congress, No Tea Baggers, No Headache………….

Birthday Cake for a Jordanian Terrorist………….

Sunni Britain, Shi’a Britain, English Sectarians…………….

Netanyahu Supplanting Ahmadinejad, a New Noncompliant Defiant-in-Chief...........

Qusay Nominated for Iraq Leader, the Effect of Being Gassed……….

Nigeria Appoints Goldman Sachs Minister, Scam Emails to Continue………

Bin Laden Wants KSM Executed……….

Qaddafi Comforts Iraqi Ba’athists………….

A Home for the Bin Ladens……………

Fake Matzah, Kosher Bread, Halal Meat, Free Speech..........

Fascists of Lebanon and their Financiers, Guernica…………..

Spending Summer in Israel?………..

Our Very Own Native Prodigal Middle Eastern Dogs………….

The Economic Cost of Looking ‘Cool’…………………

Iraqi Post–Election Machinations…………

Iraqi Politics According to the Goddess of Fertility and Watermelon Beauty………..

Middle East in Geneva: UNHRC? What is UNHRC? Oh, that HR..........

Iran Targets Human Rights Groups……….

Ugliest Man in Zimbabwe: Mugabe Loses One………….

On the Gulf: Another Criminal Legacy of the Ba’ath………

In Egypt: A Child is Born, Mummy Still Around………..

HRW Asks Saudis to Release Shi’a Advocate Blogger………..

From Tehran to Israel, What Next………………..

An Arab Summit of the Wanted and the “Should Be” Wanted…………

Is Reagan Finally Riding into the Sunset?...........

Netanyahu Meets Obama, Kicks Him in Teeth Too, New Settler Apartments

Saudiization of International Research? An Offshore Saudi View………..

Art and Antiquity: Super Size Me, Jesus……………..

A Bahrain Minister, Elite Kuwait Woman, Iranian IRG, Money Laundering, but Alas no Mossad, no Dorky Shorts…….

Obama Wins his Waterloo, Not “Broken”, Markets Up………

Comparing al-Maliki to Ahmadinejad, Promoting Allawi and his Baathists…….....

Those British Dogs Who Cling to Their Passports, Not Kosher with Lipstick…………….

Child-Brides vs. Dirty Old Shaikhs of Yemen…......

The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Sassy Woman in Burqa, Fighting with Poetry……………

Israel & Antiquity: Telling a Byzantine Navel from an Ancient Hole in the Ground

Iraq Baathists Threaten Violence if Allawi Loses, My Fatwa……………..

Egypt, Mr. Bumble, and that Asinine Law.........

Back to a Normal Berlin, from Marxism (and that other ‘ism’) to Haredism………..

One More Iranian Tale……......

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