Don’t ask me exactly why but I changed my mind. I woke up this morning thinking about the blog. I thought that the beast could probably heal. For those who know me personally, they have seen how lunatic I can be. So I will start with Ms Levantine’s note. I will summarize what I think [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Some thoughts on Hizbullah since Mughnieh’s assassination
Posted in Hizbullah, Israel, Lebanon Groups, Media on March 30, 2008 | 7 Comments »
A note to the reader
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I think that this blog has reach its final stop, like an endlessly dying beast that I couldn’t resolve myself to kill. But I probably should, for I see myself thinking of so many things but not writing any of it, thinking that I should save all that for this work that I hope to [...]
Samir Kassir
Posted in Lebanon Groups, Palestine on March 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Has anyone seen the new statue erected right next to the Al Nahar building in downtown representing Samir Kassir philosophizing with one hand in the air? I just want to point out one thing: Apart from the very bad selection of sentences from his work that are inscribed on the large stone that is next [...]
Creating disgust based on projected cultural and class differences
Posted in Advertising, Lebanon Groups, Mustaqbal, Syria on March 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
In a couple of years, the history of the recent ‘upheaval’ years of this country that came to be known as Lebanon, will mainly be remembered through this dark spot that is the history of the Mustaqbal movement. It will probably be the first and (hopefully) last Sunni chauvinistic movement in the history of the [...]
Un interlude avec Henri Michaux
Posted in Poetry, شعر on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Descends, oui, descends en toi, vers cet immense rayonnage de besoins sans grandeurs. Il le faut. Après tu pourras, tu devras remonter. Henri Michaux, Pôteaux d’angles Poésies sur ce blog: Abul Hassan al Shushtari 1Billy Collins, 1Mahmoud Darwish, 1Ounsi El Hage, 1Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, 1Ghérasim Luca, 1, 2Henri Michaux, 1, 2Marianne Moore, 1Pablo Neruda, 1, [...]
Another face of hegemony
Posted in Israeli practices, Media, Palestine on March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Check out this excellent article by an Israeli PhD student in Cambridge on the politics of naming and labeling that is prevalent in the Israeli press. For one thing, it shows very well how standards to judge if a press is “free” should be put into question: it has nothing to do with what a [...]
On our way back from Damascus
Posted in Lebanon Corruption, Syria on March 17, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday I was in Syria. And before yesterday too. I liked how at the Syrian customs they have a poster of Imad Mughnieh that’s the size of Bashar Assad’s portrait, with Nasrallah stickers here and there on the windows that separate employees from the travelers. I also noticed that they have sidewalks in Damascus unlike [...]
Hegemony: an illustration
Posted in Hegemony, Hizbullah, Israeli practices, Symbolism on March 6, 2008 | 8 Comments »
This just in: CBNNews.com – JERUSALEM, Israel – Iranian missiles are making their way to Lebanese-based Hezbollah terrorists via Turkey, according to intelligence reports. Ok, let’s try something: XXXNews.com – BEIRUT, Lebanon – USA missiles, cluster bombs, and uranium-rich weapons, are making their way to the Palestine-based Zionist terrorist army, via USA, according to intelligence [...]
How to pass time
Posted in Israeli practices, Lebanon Groups, Prisoners on March 1, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Time that passes has inevitably been at some point or another for each one of us a basic puzzle to address. Boredom, can be thought of the backdrop of life anxiety in the face of death. Now let’s try to think of what happens to a person that spends 5 years of his life in [...]
