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Category Archives: Sectarianism

A Political Guide to Lebanon: Keywords

Having a good sense of humour is not a prerequisite for being Lebanese or living and visiting this simultaneously magical and troubled country, but it sure helps. (Fortunately, ordinary Lebanese, … Continue reading

9 April, 2008 · 1 Comment

Jonathan Cook on Divide and Rule — A Tale of Two Occupations

In Divide and Rule, Israeli-Style: Can the Arab World be Turned into Gaza’s Jailers? (jkcook.net and Counterpunch, June 26, 2007), Jonathan Cook has written another grim but worthwhile article on … Continue reading

28 June, 2007 · 4 Comments

Hariri Tribunal: sarcastic — and serious — takes

Cartoon by Leba-none First, sarcastic humour alert. You may know that the supremely representative UN Security Council has voted to go ahead with a spurious court to prosecute the murder … Continue reading

31 May, 2007 · 2 Comments

More media on Lebanon and Fatah al Islam

1. Press picks: Mike Whitney, Pack Up and Leave or Stay Home and Die: Bush’s New Middle East Eliza Ernshire, Inside Bedawi Camp: Refugees Forever Rami Zurayk, Hizbullah Move To … Continue reading

30 May, 2007 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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