Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for January 2011

Tony Blair's Fatuous Remarks on the Egyptian Revolution..........

On Egypt: Obama Bowing to an Absolute Monarchy and an Apartheid Regime?.......

Saudis and Israelis Trying to Save Mubarak’s Regime……..

Return of Gamal Abdel-Nasser , End of the ‘Saudi Era”……

A Gulf of Brotherly (or is it Sisterly) Troubles………..

What Comes After Egypt? Mad Shores of Tripoli………...

King Farouq Was More of a Man, he Spared his People……………….

Saudi King Abdullah: the Egyptian People are Infiltrators……

Sure Sign that Mubarak in on the Way Out, End of Rape and Torture Cells………

Pharaoh will Fall and Leave Egypt, a Leech and his Janitors………

Joe Biden’s Cruel Mubarak joke………….

Iron Curtain over Egypt, is Denial a River in Africa?………….

Mubarak in his Desert Versailles, ElBaradei as Lenin or Khomeini, Jeddah as دار العجزة……..

Sa’ad Hariri as Fredo Corleone: the Incompetent Street Agitator of Tripoli…………

Beyond Tunisia: Arab Regimes Worry about “Losing” Lebanon, the Hanged Mashnuq…….

Those Brits and Sex in the City of Dubai, Bond in Abu Dhabi………..

Iranians Report a Tunisian Hezbollah Group………

Real Estate: Arab and Russian Billionaires, Italian Mafia and Mexican Cartels……….

Dubai World is Sinking, Dubai World is Sinking………..

True Humanitarian Islam of Saudi Judges, Kingdom without Magic……….

Tony (the Poodle) Blair Evades Iraq Questions, Urges an Iran War……..

Boycott Gauleiter Peter King Hearings on Jewish or Buddhist or Muslim “Subversion”……..

Saudi Mufti says Revolutionary Self-Immolation not Kosher, Shaikh Al and Abdelwahhab and Music…….

Terrorist War in Iraq Picks Up amid Political Jockeying………

Colonel Gaddafi and His Neighbors: Revolutionary Leaders, Revolting Leaders………

Hariri and the Angry Prince: Apologizing for the ‘B” Word………

Africa’s Abdullah Sambi Denies Saudi “Accusations” of Shi’ism…….

Exiled Ben Ali given Same Rights as Saudi Citizens, a Glass of Water………….

A War Clarion: Islamium, Iranium, Saudium, Boltonium……….

Hillary's Diplomatic Joke of the Week: American National Interests vs. Likud National Interests…….

American Diplomatic ‘Nonsense’, a Disrespectable Tribunal, a Jackass UN……..

Iranian Youth: Mullahs Losing Hearts and Minds………..

Republican Governor Insults Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Budhists, Animists, Salafis, Vegans, Stoners, even ADL………

Is an Israeli “War on Iran” Government in Place Now?................

Ehud Barak Kills the Sick Man of Israeli Politics, a Permanent Extreme Rightist Regime………

Libya: in Caligula’s Clutches, People Who Wish they were Dead……..

Misogynic and Racist Justic in Dubai……….

Arab Leaders Meet in Egypt’s New Capital, Without Muthaffar al-Nawwab…….

Winter of Arab Fires, Winter of Naked Arab Emperors, Winter of Arab Discontent……

Love and Underage Marriage in Israel and Iran, Rabbis and Ayatollahs….……..

James Bond Hits the UAE, Hiding the Native Chicks................

The Baby Terrorists of Bahrain………..

Rise of Arab Absolute Tribal Monarchies, Inconvenient Facts………

Ahmadinejad Cuts Subsidies, Goes Haute Couture…………

Why Nobody Interferes in Lebanon, From Caesar Augustus to STL Warlords..............

What Tunisian Revolution? Old Regime Keeps Power………

Common Cause: Gaddafi and the Arab Absolute Oligarchs, an Egyptian Promise…………

A Tale of Two Deaths in the Middle East, a Tale of Western Hypocrisy………..

Just an Ordinary Paper with a Saudi Owner, Incestuous Media…….

Iranians Claim More U.S. Drones Shot Down………

Iran, Israel and the USA: Stuxnet or Bust, and other Cyber Wars………..

Middle East Unrest: Media Myopia in the West……..

Mecca: from Holy City to a Las Vegas of Greed………….

The West Ready to Indict Khamenei, Hezbollah, the Assads, and all Usual Suspects?........

Sports on My Gulf: Always an Oligarchy Family Affair………….

Sarkozy’s 2011 Resolution: More Final Solutions…….

Iran’s Three-Pronged Power Structure, or is it Four………….

North Korea: the Secret to the Kim’s Good Health, Great Looks, and Unique Haircuts………

Tweeting Khamenei vs. Iranian Bloggers, Prince Whatishisass………….

Leaked not Wikileaked: Robert Fisk on the Logic or Illogic of STL on Lebanon ……

The Burden of Tunisians: Don’t Just Change a Regime, Change History……

New York Times Dumbing Down over Lebanon Analysis…………

Secretary Clinton Blasts Arab Autocrats, Marginal Productivity of Bullets Fired………

Labor Shortage? Israelis Capture Lebanese Sheepherder………

The Lady Who Will Guard the 'Elite' Iranian Scientists……….

Killer Impact of Israeli Sanctions on Iranian Air Travelers……………

Turko-Persian Influences, How Nasrallah says ‘Three’ and ‘Two’ in Lebanese……..

Joe Biden in Baghdad Seeking to Arrange Permanent Residency for McCain and Graham…….

Afghanistan: Land of the Free, Home of the Well-Paid…..……

Iranian Angst, Iranian Bluster………….

Hariri and Obama: Enter White House a Messenger Boy, Leave White House a former PM…….

Tunis: Bin Ali Fires the Man who Reminds Him of his Past………

Fuzzy Labor Economics on the Gulf………..

A Common Arab View on STL, the West, and Hezbollah………….

A Big Iranian Cheese Whopper? “Mossad” Tools of the Trade Exhibited in Tehran……

Lebanon Government to Collapse while Hariri Shops in New York………

How Egypt Waged War on the Wrong ‘Enemy’, a Porcine Fiasco………

Clinton and Mossad Spar over Iranian Nuclear Program…….

Did U.S-French-Israeli Efforts Derail Saudi-Syrian Accord in Lebanon?.........

Iraqis in Denial: Our Sectarianism is Holier than Yours ………

Saudi Injustice: Woman Raped by Men then by Judges………..

In Egypt: a Return of the Mummy? An Arab Evita?...................

The American Right Wing’s New Iranian Revolutionary Pals…………

Iran Claims to Have Cracked a Mossad Cell, a Question of Timing…….

Netanyahu’s Salary, Facebook as the Arab Oligarchs’ Alibi, Peanuts and Carrots and B’aroor………

A Plot to Shift Arab Summit from Baghdad Fails…………

Tighter Iran Sanctions, Killer Iran Sanctions………..

Clinton Heads to Persian-American Gulf, Potentates Feel Edified, Wikileaks Fallout…….

Those Crashing Iranian Jetliners: Wages of Western Sanctions?.............

Israeli Settlers and American Money Get Revenge on Amin al-Hussaini………

Fidel Castro on Murdering Einstein and other Nuclear Scientists……….

Where Salafi Islamists Enforce Burning the Bra (not Their Own)………….

The Lebanese Quagmire: is it Warlike Westerners vs. Pacifist Arabs?……..

Iran Honors two Murdered Scientists, but Where in the World is Shahram Amiri…….

U.S. Crackerjacks Pissed off by French Muslim Batman………….

Fires of Lebanon: will Israel’s New High-Tech Military Impress Hezbollah?..........

American Days of Thrill and Madness and Misplaced Nostalgia, Ike vs. Jim Crow………

Four Nuclear Strikes For the Mossad, What Happens in Dubai………..

Witches of Bucharest, Witches of Riyadh: a Taxing Matter, a Chopping Matter………

This Year: the Mirage of an Arab Spring………….

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