Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for March 2010

Can Netanyahu Con Hillary?........

These Wild Aussies and Their Honorable Flying Terrorist Dingoes……….

The Way to San Jose: Rush Limbaugh Moves to Costa Rica, Seeking Their Public Option……..

An Iranian Lost Cause Célèbre in Italy…………

Saudi Gets Heavenly Manna, Credits Almighty, Is Disappointed, Goes Berserk, Sues……..

A Mediocre Sports Prince Tries to Destroy Arab Football…….

Wagner Outlives Hitler.................

Rafah as Ciudad Juarez?.........

Arab Absolute Oligarchs Aim their Fire at Iraqi President Talibani……….

New al-Azhar Shaikh to Remain in Ruling Party of Egypt…….

Iranian Health Care vs. Republican No Care in a Red State………….

In California: Proof that Times Are Really Hard………….

Where a Cell Phone Can Kill you……….

Torn Between Mubarak and the People of Gaza…………..

Iranian Mullahs Fear the Carrot, Love the Stick………..

A Dutch Health Care Rebellion………….

On Fatwas, Housemaids, and Princesses.........

Tackling an Israeli Gap..........

Politics of Cheap Shots, al-Maliki Worried, Allawi Almost Resigned………

Iraqi Voting Issues, Many hanging Chads and Dimpled Chads……..

Lebanese Academia and Israel: Freedom or Collaboration or McCarthyism or All……..

Israel’s Tea Parties, an Israeli Tea Bagger…………..

No More Chinese Beaver for Israel?…………

A Bin Laden Family Feud, Family Values…………….

Dreams and Frustrations of a Gulf War, Petitioning Lieberman (not Avigdor)………….

In Israel: Ghetto and Counter-Ghetto……………

Gulf Financial Accounting Shenanigans, Lehman-Style………….

Persian Gulf Satellite Wars: NileSat, ArabSat, IranSat, QatarSat…………….

"Rashomon" of West Bank Settlements: Two Views, Two Reports………….

Octogenarian Arab Leaders, President “Overflowing Peace” of Palestine…….

Unelected Nancy Pelosi of Arabia, A Potemkin Parliament of Bureaucrats…………

A Day in the Life of Ahmadinejad………….

The Coming Shift in OPEC Balance of Power?.................

An Imaginary Victory in Iraq, Now for the Math on the Ground and the Religion ……

A Legacy of European Wars: Our Backyard, Our Limbs…………

Where the Boys Are: the Pontiff in Denial, First Lady of the Vatican……………

Sahara Jihadists Tax the Magic Dragon but Puffing it is Haram………….

An Iranian Warning to Cheney (Dick)……………

Netanyahu and Obama: A Horde against a Constituency of One……………

Frustrated Arabian Tea Parties, Aborted Pax Petroliana…………

A Magicless Kingdom of Arabia, Another Beheading in aTwilight Zone Kingdom…………………

A Pashtun Tomboy of Waziristan……………..

Tony Blair’s Revolving Door, International Oil, Persian Gulf Potentates, An English Sarah Palin……………

A Most Anti-Semitic Harmless Quartet, Some Pigs are More..........

On Delegating Authority, Permission to Take a Whizz in the Nile………

Of Naughty Mullahs, Naughty Oligarchs, Hypocritical Europeans……

Mr. Smith Goes to Arabia, Gets Confused, Writes Book………..

Let My Phone Calls Go: Egypt Telecoms Tightens Screws on Skype………

Tour d’Argent in Arabia, Too Early for Beaujolais and Rousseau at Janadriyah…………..

Back to Iran War, On Israeli Flights Across the Gulf…………

Ten Thousand Dollar Centerfolds, More Bangs for Bucks……..

The Middle East’s Most Irresponsible Leader………

Frantic Politicking in Bahrain……………

Oro Y Plata On the Persian Gulf………………

Iranian BFF of Women at OIC, Live T-Rex or Naked Prince in Jeddah…………

Arabian March Madness: Saudi Cleric Suggests Replacing Kaaba with a Shopping Mall………

Brazil’s Lula in Jordan, What About that Humor?………

Obama the Anti-Semite, What About Joe and Hillary?.............

Archaeologists Confusing Jews and Arabs: it Must be the Nose…………….

Idle British Poet Laureate, Beckham and Unitas.........

Proof that Turkey is in the Middle East………….

Arabian Citizen Kanes: Rosebud and Techno Salafi Cities..……....

A Prince Opines on a Dead Shaikh, a Hesder Yeshiva of Arabia……….

Feds on Facebook, but no Efrem Zimbalist, Networking in Waziristan……..

A Misery Index and Thermidor in Arabia…………

Chief Iraqi Vote Official Accused of Being Allawi Ally……………

Al Gore Wins Over Some Princes, Green Saudis?…………

A Bible-Belt Godless WiFi……………

Erdogan and China vs. Petraeus and al-Saud (and Netanyahu)…………..

Arab Sea Sharks Dwindling, Land Sharks Thriving……….

Iraqi Elections: a Modified Old Ruling Coalition, a Role for Muqtada………

Internet Censorship in the Middle East, Goon Tea Parties........

Skype and the Plutocrats on the Persian Gulf………….

From Jerusalem to Washington: Extreme Rightist Obstructionism…………

The Long Odds in Iraq, a Malfunctioning Software.......

Iranians Learn the Joy of Courting, Maybe………………….

US Warns Against European Islamo-Phobia……….

Turks Ban Insemination, Foreign Liaisons, is Vasectomy Next?.........

Iran Reformists Face New Pressures……..

The Bin Laden Brood: Release the Tehran Thirty, or Twenty, or Eighteen……….

Queen of England Sued, for Insulting her Little Counterparts………..

Egypt Bourse Down on Mubarak, the Throne that Nasser Overthrew……

Where Free Speech Can Make You Go Blind………..

Lebanese March 14: Deader than a Dead Skunk?.........

Les cyberféministes iraniennes

Phony Outrage Cancels Egypt Synagogue Ceremony, About Tut-Ankh-Amon, A Convalescing Mummy ……………

A Fire Next Time in Iran? a Call for Festival Protests……..

Iranians Offer Technical Help to Arabsat………………

Borderlands: South of the Border, Down Yemeni Way….…………

Human Rights vs. Rulers Rights…………

Saudi Court Upholds Beheading of Lebanese for Sorcery, Demons and Jinn Implicated………

Wages of a Kiss on the Gulf: White European, Brown European………….

Neither Revolutionary nor Revolting, Lebanese Cedar “Movement” Officially Dead…………….

Islamic Fundamentalism and American Women?……………….

Allawi Ally Injects Sectarianism into Iraq Race………………

How Iraq and Bush Taught America the Ways of Middle East Oligarchies…………

Friedman Nearly Awake, Netanyahu as Obama…………………

Hamas Leader Captured by Joint Israeli-Fatah Operation ……………

Sign of the Times: Aston Martin Gulf Owners in Trouble………..

Iran Dismantles Cyber Network, but Ties it to Protests………..

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