Have you ever recalled enjoying a television program even when you didn't understand it? Worse yet, did you feel that not understanding it was the very key to its entertaining character? Granted, the word entertaining is a dubious expression not everyone would bestow on certain programs. One you...
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, prompting me to switch from my original topic (Arabic TV) to something ...
"I fought authority, authority always wins..." - John Cougar Mellencamp If people actually knew of this song and what ...
My cousin who emigrated a long time ago to New Zealand came across this local in Australia while traveling there. When ...
Progress, I am sure we agree, is a fact of life. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. I am sure that not many ...
To achieve the objective noted in the header, I get up at four in the morning and walk a couple of blocks through the ...
Just when you think that Murphy's Law has run its course you realize that exactly the opposite is true. In Murphy's ...
Baghdad or Bust II
Monday, November 12, 2007
It turns out I hadn't seen anything yet. At Sully Compound, where people awaiting further transportation assemble, I ...
After months of waiting, I am finally here. I postponed it for the longest time, my trip to Baghdad, even after both ...
Only less than six months ago, I finally became a father. It's a humbling experience, as, oh about trillions of people ...
After living in Morocco for over two years and now in Amman for almost one and a half, Arabs still fascinate me. No ...
You would expect something dramatic, a plague the Thomas Manns of the world couldn't possibly have ever conceived, but ...
