A lot of people ask me why I don’t write anymore. I don’t like writing when a lot of things are happening at the same time. This tends to obscure my attention. Also I prefer things to cool down before I can talk about them. For example, I won’t write on Imad Mughnieh’s assassination before [...]
Archive for February, 2008
March 14
Posted in Israeli practices, Lebanese State, Lebanon Groups on February 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »
فصل شعري مع سماحة العلامة آية الله محمد حسين فضل الله: اتركي الحرف ميتاً
Posted in شعر on February 12, 2008 | 9 Comments »
(وجدها مستغرقة في القراءة وفي عينيها ظلال حيرة، وأشباح شقاء) اتركي الحرف ميّتاً بين كفيك… وغيبي في موكب الأضواء وافتحي روحك الطليقة لأحلام… تنهل في حقول الضياء إن اهدابك الرقيقة لم تُخلق… لتغفو على الرؤى العمياء إنها للظلال.. تخفق في رفقٍ.. فتنساب… رعشة من ضياء إنها للحياة… تفتح عينيك.. على روعة الضحى الوضّاء حدّقي بي: [...]
Women, Nationality, and "Islamists"
Posted in Hizbullah, lebanese_society, Lebanon Groups, Lebanon Law on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday morning, I turned on the radio tuned of course to Radio al Nour. There was an interview with Lina Abou Habib that campaigns to have women pass on their nationality to their children. The depth and pervasiveness of the patriarchal system in Lebanon is such that it is much worse than the rest of [...]
Seeing Aoun and Nasrallah on Otv
Posted in Hizbullah, Lebanese State, Media, Nationalism, Tayyar on February 6, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I just have a couple of points to make on (before) yesterday’s interview between Hizbullah’s SG and Tayyar’s leader. These are open questions more than anything else. My sentences sometimes are brief and I don’t develop every idea very much. So there is a lot to be said on each. Of course, the purpose of [...]
LF pearls of Wisdom
Posted in Hizbullah, Lebanese Forces, Lebanese State on February 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Former Parliamentary Member Fares Soueid (who I consider to be somewhat of a bourgeois version of the Lebanese Forces nonetheless completely aligned with them) says: Hizbullah falls into the same trap Bashir Gemayel fell in 1977 when he started weakening military institutions and put them under his wing, and then came the invasion in 1982 [...]
Fath al Islam
Posted in Fath al Islam, Lebanon Security, Palestinian camps on February 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Do read Fida’ Itani in Le Monde Diplomatique on Fath al Islam who has been writing dozens of articles in Arabic on the subject in Al-Akhbar. You need to get the newspaper by print as the internet edition is available only for subscribers. GPC has some extracts on his blog.
Hizbullah’s momentum
Posted in Hizbullah, Lebanese Army, Lebanon Groups on February 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hizbullah has not been very verbal about the Israeli killing of two Lebanese in Ghajar near the Wazani river in the South. Now that’s a very unusual stance. Yesterday, when Parliamentary member and leader of the Hizbullah denominated parliamentary committee Mohammad Raad was interviewed on Al Manar TV, there was nothing said about this event. [...]
Annahar on electricity in Dahyeh
Posted in Hizbullah, Lebanese Economy, Lebanon Groups, Media on February 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Check this article in Annahar that starts up with a horribly suspicious title: “electricity in the southern suburbs: a cause with valid demands, or a facade for undisclosed political goals?”, and then ends up re-iterating the obvious that in effect these guys do get way less electricity from other regions, some of individuals do steal [...]
