October 31, 2008
My beautiful, loving and faithful Macbook is out of commission at the moment. This is, in my personal little universe, a tragedy of epic proportions. I could blame it on the toddler, the one who (allegedly) dropped it. But, in truth, we can blame me, the mommy, who - had she not been insanely hun...
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Sergei Elkin (spelled yol-kin) is the king of political cartoons in Russia, famous for his satirical takes on Russian, Ukrainian and world leaders. What sets him apart from Kremlin propagandists is his relatively balanced and multidirectional approach. Here’s how he frames the U.S. president...
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Anglo-Libyan, who lives in the UK, confesses that his children know more about the US than the UK and Libya. ...
go to article »October 29, 2008
Well, he could have fooled me, but according to Amir Taheri, Muslims/Arabs love Obama. He's the one they've been waiting for. No, really. I'm not kidding! See what Taheri has to say about Obamania in Arabia in the following article: MUSLIMS IDENTIFY WITH BARACK OBAMA - New York Post ...
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I am deeply disturbed by how easily people use of the word terrorist in the US ever since this “war on terror” began. Listening to the Palin/McCain rhetoric over the past few weeks, I am terrified and angry. Terrified because I see many similarities with the devastating right-wing propaganda gen...
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In March of this year, I was visiting the West African nation of Liberia to shoot a film for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children on young people in post-conflict settings. As with most places I visit, Liberia was fascinated with U.S. p...
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Since the Obama campaign bought up the airwaves, the senator's face has been plastered pretty much everywhere: TV screens, T-shirts, posters, buttons... Well now he is on a lottery ticket, too. Here's the interesting bit: Those tickets are in Colombia, usually thought to be Republican-friendl...
go to article »October 28, 2008
Last week we ran a poll asking folks in Qatar who they would choose to be the next US President if they could vote. The results have been overwhelmingly in favour of Barak Obama - 60% of those polled said that they would prefer an Obama/Biden ticket. McCain/Palin only mustered a measly 10% of the...
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A Bahraini journalist, translator, editor, blogger and wanna be artist - in no particular order. I am also Global Voices Online's Middle East and North Africa and Arabic Language Editor.
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