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Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for June 2010

Child Brides of Iran………………..

Was Cleopatra Bitten by her Asp or by Richard Burton? Should we Care?............

Pressure Forces Iran to Punish Prisoner Abusers, Death and Jail Sentences passed…………..

Tony Blair Wins Liberty Medal, what About Me…………..

An Israeli Barbie that is Not Kosher, Kissing a Pig without Lipstick………….

Novella of Missing Iranian Scientist: the Langley Virginia Chapter………….

US Congress Spurs Expansion of Iranian Oil Refineries, Mysterious Ways of Mullahs……

Israeli Spies Breach Lebanese Telecom Network, Get Caught Many Years later………………

An Ambassador Predicts a Middle East War……………

Jack Bauer, Like Totally So Bush-Era in America, Emigrates to Iran……………

No Emma Lazarus on the Persian Gulf, but Huddled Masses and Labor Camps abound……..

GCC States get Smart for Now, Deny Idea of Political Union…………

Britain: is it Something in the Royal Water?.........

Two Sides of Israel? Discrimination in Education, Democracy in Politics……..

From Suez (1956) to the Persian Gulf (2010-2012), a New Multi-polar World?………….

A Middle East Conjugal Crisis: Too Good to be True?...............

Saudi Scholars Agonize over Opera, Concertos, Carmina Burana, and possibly Lady Gaga………

Ketchup and Potato Chips: now Hamas can Fire up the Grill and Chill the Cerveza………

Asking the King to Ask Obama to Ask the Israelis and Iraqis and Iranians to…………

US Taxes Used to Jail “Loose” Afghan Women……………

GCC Human "Rights" on the Gulf: Aping Europe on Wine and Topless Beaches………

Iran Playing Hard to Get, “Disciplining” the West…………..

Hezbollah Playing Hard to Get…………….

In Praise of Kim Jong-Il and Egyptian Stability, a Pig with Lipstick………….

Jordanian Nuclear Threat: Maybe it is the Humor, Stupid……………..

Sectarian Brain Washing the Salafi Way……………….

Winds of a Gulf War: Confusion about Targets…….

The Gulf: the Enemy of my Friend is my……………..

O Libya: Qadhafi’s Son says It’s Time for Democracy, Misses the Irony……..

A Tough One: Improving Cultural Ties between Iran and Australia, Doogh and Fosters………

Ahmadinejad in Your Town: a Nation “Needing” a Villain, Why not Look Inside…………

The Genesis of British Petroleum, Ghosts of old Tehran……………

Troubled Voodoo Economies: Barack Sarkozy Merkel Hoover……….

Jewel-encrusted Ghazals and Wives on Installment………….

Honorary World Cup Win for the Lebanese…………….

Middle East Tensions: On Viagra, Shoe Polish, and those Extra wives…..

Rumors of New Middle East War Escalate with American Buildup Around Iran…

Is a New Persian Gulf War Imminent? Maybe Not.........

G8: a Lame Axis in Search of a New Third Evil Leg………………

In Saudi Arabia: My Asian Driver, My Hungry Baby, Tea with no Sympathy but Milk……………

Ahmadinejad Trying to Save a Reticent World again………….

American Chutzpah as Bad Joke of the Week: US Says Turkey Must Prove Its Commitment to West…………..

My World Cup Vuvuzela Fatwa………

Taliban Commander in Drag Killed on Way to Hookers’ Ball.........

Unmarked Borders, Hikers as Pawns……….

The Push Toward the Nuclear Option in the Gulf?……………..

HRW to Hamas on Gilad Shalit: J’Accue, a Fair Exchange Rate?………

No Surprise, not at All, in Egypt: using an Autopsy Report to Hide the Truth……….

Praying with a King, Praying to a King, to Lift Censorship………

Repo-Family: Tale of a Repossessed Saudi Wife, La Marseillaise in Arabic……….

Iran Lawmakers head to Gaza? What about Ahmadinejad?..........

New Battlefront: the Oil Emirate of Israel vs. Hezbollah………

No Iranian Visit to Buchenwald, Irony of a European Act………

How the Saudis Killed the GCC Gulf Monetary Union, and Why is that Good…………

ElBaradei Leads Anti-Torture Demonstration in Egypt………

A Fatwa on FIFA, Muslim Players, and the Maginot Line…………..

Of Hyperinflation, Currency Denominations, Rials and Shekels, and Middle East Bribes…….

Stalin in Tehran…………

Islands in the Gulf: Dispute over Strategic Land and Petroleum Fields…….

Iran as a Last refuge of Regional and other Scoundrels……….

One Foreign Opinion of an Annoying Middle East Leader…………

Acceptance of Others in a Middle East Kingdom of Public Relations………….

Lebanon: Unsubtle Intra-Arab Discrimination…..

Defending the Middle East Right, How Some Militias are Better than Others……..

Fishy Gulf Higher Education: Mock American University of RAK……………..

Ghettos of Tel Aviv: Learning from the old Terrible European Experience………

Seeking Free Labor on the Gulf…………..

Murderers Beheaded then Crucified (for good measure)…….

New Desert Fox, New Persian Gulf Fox…………..

Xenophobia on the Gulf: Idle Bureaucrats to Decide whom one Marries………….

AIPAC and Syria: Whose Foreign Policy is it anyway?..............

One Foreign Opinion of one Middle East Despot…………..

Of Middle East Spy Satellites, Naked Potentates in Hot Tubs………

On the Gulf: a Potentate Minister Fields Questions of Discrimination and Torture………

Ehud Barak in Washington: Forget the Principle, it is the Timing, Stupid……….

Libyan Human Rights Disappoint, World Shocked…………

Game Theories: Georgia on Israeli Minds? Is the Target Iran or is it Hezbollah and Syria?..........

A Bank Account of the Conscience; What about the Potentates?........

Syrian Dust Bowl and Okies: is it the Future of the Region?.............

Iran Media Split on Russia, Whitewashing Moscow’s Stance?........

Pious Party Crashers: the Price of not Inviting the Religious Police…………..

Russo-Iranian S-300 Deal: a New Agreement?..............

Sleeping with the Salafi Enemy for Money: Afghan War Mercenaries and the Taliban…..

Middle East Politics of Power Shortages in the Gulf……………..

A General ‘s Turkish Media Coup: a McChrystallus Afghanicus Seeks his Rubicon……….

Temporary Human Rights “Concessions” for a Permanent Emergency Rule…………

Has Bandar Joined Waldo? Where are They Now?..............

Pyongyang Mystery Deepens: Duk and Hong and Soon Opine about Kim, Gang et al…………

Iraq’s Electricity “Brownie” Resigns after Power Failures, First Case in Arab World? Seppuku, Baby..…..

Milk Brothers: Venezuelans to Get Iranian Milk, or is it Iranians to Get…….

UAE Closes “Dual Use” Iran Trade…..

Saudi King to Storm Bastille Day, Messidor in Paris………

Desperate Allawi Now Claims Assassination Plots, not many Buyers…..

Egypt Security Detains Dozens of Protesters, CNN and Fox News AWOL…..

Good News: Gaza to be Allowed Cilantro, Chocolates, and Asses (both Israeli and Hamas types), Suicide Goats……

US Border Paranoia: Turning Wetbacks unto Ragheads, Polyglot Coyotes……

Films of Iran and Iraq: a Film of a Coming War, a Film of a Current War………

Persian Gulf Doublespeak: French Peace Camp Armed to the Teeth, What about Sharia Law?.......

Banned in Arabia: Lawrence of Afghanistan? Lawrence of Iraq?..........

The Gulf: in Self-Recognition of a Lingering Potentate………

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