Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus-Arabia Deserta: Monthly Archives for September 2009

A Farewell to Russian Missiles, a Welcome to Saudi Money?…………

Friedman, Death of Rabin, American Political Menace, God the Extreme Conservative………...

Macabre but Telling Exchange Rate, Palestinian-Israeli Human Rate, No Purchasing Power Parity………

Shroud of Turin, Holy Lamb Chop of Malaysia, Blessed Golf Fish of Liverpool, No Islamic Song of Bernadette.....…..

Some Prefer Them Dead in Jordan, Honor Killings East of the River………

Some Like It Fat in Morocco, No Rick’s Café in the Sahara……..

A Healthy Recession, a Healthy Iran Blockade…….

Eternal Saga of Asia and Europe, Tehran as Troy, Helen of Uranium, Netanyahu the Cuckolded King of Sparta……….

Middle East Media, Pean to a Mouthpiece, Requiem for a Tabloid, A Scented Editor, a Watermelon Daily……….

Israeli Strike Scenarios, Land Bases or Aircraft Carriers, Dubious Intelligence Sources…..

Catch Me If You Can: a Sign of Economic Times in Arabia

A Coptic President of Egypt? Democracy Schemocracy, River Nile, River Styx………

Happy Times are Here Again in Tegucigalpa, Evo Morales and the Creoles…….

Gulf Views on Iran and the West, the Audacious and the Craven, Dr. Strangelove of Arabia, Slim Pickens Anyone?...……….

Gulf Currency Union, Issues of Pegging and Trade, Ibn Saud and Demography…….

Obama's "Kennedy in Vienna" Moment, One Israeli View of Obama and Netanyahu, Avnery on New York..……

Secrets of the One Laughing Jordanian, the Society for Polygamy……….

Swine Flu and Egypt’s Islamists, Sore Cultural Loser of Paris, Pharaoh's Frustrated Wife.…….

Iran’s Qom facility: the Hostile Media View……

Iran’s Qom Facility: the Sympathetic Media View

The Bleached Blonde Terrorist, the Dallas Cowboys Terrorist, the Keystone Cops Terrorists…..

Yemen War: Optimistic Despot, Sort of Optimistic…..

Rickshaw Wedding: Princess Ties it in Jaipur

G-20 Illusions: Three Rivers of Change, Lobbyists Breach the Monongahela, Battle for the 535……..

Help Coming: Help for Chinese Labor and American Corporate Owners……

Senator Dumb as a Doorknob, Senator 'Liaisons Dangereuses', Health Care Militias, Town Hall Yippies, Suicidal Lobbyists……

How Ahmadinejad Saved the Excitement for the G-20 Summit….....

Watermelon Wars, Persistent Houthis, Inevitable Genocide, and Narcotics in Yemen........

Iranian Nuclear Secret Steals G-20, World Reaction, War of the Eternally Damned and the Salafi's Useful Pigs..........

Salafi Astronomy, a Dead Mufti, Rediscovering Galileo, What about Poirot......

Israel and the Kurds, What Genocide has Wrought, What Silence has Wrought…….

Tale of Two Gulf Cities: Feast, Famine, Homelessness, and Manchester City on the Persian Gulf……..

Al-Qaeda and Iran: the Saudi Angle, Monitored Telephones, Stupid Terrorists……

Vive L’amour! Ahmadinajed Speech Bores the Socks Off Them, Makes Up for Qaddafi’s Entertaining One……..

Egypt’s Unsportsmanlike Culture Minister, Blames U S Jews for UNESCO Loss, Trump Folds on Tent, Bad Haircut Intact……

Radical Middle East Leaders, Politician Hunks, Cool Despots, Scent of Danger, Nearly 'Blonde' on CNN..…..

Qaddafi the African, ‘Revolutionary’ World View, Security Council of Terror, Semitic Roots, Health Care Plan, JFK at Dallas......

Obama, Netanyahu, Abbas, Yellow Smiles, All that Nonsense……

Friedman on Cheney’s Wisdom, Roadmap for Iran, ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Lebanon, Horse left the Barn……

Qaddafi as King Lear, a Loquacious Rabbi, a Big Tent, Hugh Hefner…….

The NFL, Northwest Microbrews, and Terrorism…….

New Iranian Centrifuges, Colliding ‘Inalienable’ Rights, Whose Rights are 'More Inalienable'……..

Men of La Mancha? America’s Bankers against the World, Can they Rent La Chambre des Députés?........

Venezuela Coup: More Damaging Than Known…………..

Denied Dignity: Sectarianism and Discrimination in a Kingdom of Heavenly Pretenses……

How Times Have Changed: POTUS and Controversial Leaders at the UN…..

A Humble King, Eager Minions, Why Being Modest is Hard.......

Islands in the Persian Gulf Sun, Greed and Need Trump Heritage

A Cost Effective War on Terror, Freedom Pommes Frites, A Terrorist Waterloo……..

Dying for another Mistake, Is Iran Telling the Truth? Theocratic Bombs over Crawford ......

Shadow Government at Fox News, Obama in the Crosshairs…..

Spinning Finance in the Middle East, Economics of Dissembling……

A Stone of Obedience, A Sorceress Caught, Rescuing Polygamy……

Monkey Business in Riyadh Neighborhood, Missing Gitmo…….

UN Circus in Town.......

The Intellectual Journey of Irving Kristol: From Leon Trotsky to George W Bush........

Prince of Dallas Cowboys, Freeh and Bandar Texas Two-Step.......

More on Orly Taitz Esquire: When Will She Fade Away? The Nearly Definitive Post, for Now……….

Go Home! Dehors! Skinheads of Arabia, Minutemen of Arabia…….

Ahmadinejad’s Tour de Force: Jerusalem Day a Bust, Dodges Protest Bullet, Denies Holocaust, Denies Nuclear Weapons…….

It’s Really the Economy, Tonto: Lobbyist Nation, Confused Nation……....

The Iran Issue: Russia, China, Saddam Hussein Revisited, Genocide Revisited……

High Noon in Tehran: Tense Iranian Friday Expected ………..

Saudis to End Censorship, Era of Suppression is Over, Soirée in Jeddah……..

Spelling Hypocrisy on the Nile, the Goose and the Gander..........

Investments: Betting on Stability in Lebanon……….

Battle for Yemen: Air Raids, Women, Children……..

Missile Defense Sense: And the Rockets' Red Glare, the Bombs Bursting in Air…………..

Egypt’s Real Greens, Saga of Cairo’s Pigs, Finally Absolved?……

Rafsanjani of Iran, Ahmadinejad of Iran: An Issue of Credibility……..

All the King’s Men, Middle Eastern King of Humanity, Marketing a New Title............

War on Stupidity II: Forbes Culture, Corporate Welfare Culture… …

She Praised Human Rights in the Kingdom, King of Humanity, “The Country of Housemaids”…….

Yemen War Fog, Unhappy Arabia Felix, Who is on Top……..

Iran and IAEA: Will They Buy It……….

Call for Reform, Whistling in the Wind, Human What?......….

A Burqa Controversy, Frenching in Arabia, Critical Times, Weighty Issues..…….

The Religious Right and Forces of Nature, Not Your Father’s Shaikh, Not Your Father’s Fatwas…….

In Praise of Bush and Hariri, Now to the Next War…....

These Two Black Guys Walk into a White Party....... Post-Reconstruction South………

Winds of Iran War , A Friend of Lolita and Warlords, Trading Iran for Georgia, Surgical Strike at Carrhae…….

Shari’a Laws, Elections, Prince of Rub’a el-Khali, Homecoming King. Queen of ………..

One Year after Lehman (Part II), The Week that Shook the World but Changed Nothing, NFL Hearts and Minds.……..

Palestine: A Picture in Hebron Worth a Million Words.....

One Year after Lehman: American Economy Held Hostage, Bank Lobbyists on Rampage, Voltaire…….

Ahmadinejad the Feminist?.......

J'accuse? Iran in East Africa, Arabs Counting Arms Commissions, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti…….

On Bounced Checks, Triggering a Gulf Crisis, Doing Skits in Prison……...

Egypt’s Environmental Crisis: The Swine Strike Back, or Revenge of the Pigs……...

Fourth Largest Hedge Fund, Largest Sovereign Fund, Larry Summers......

Axis of Honor, Axis of Evil, the Dallas Cowboys........

Middle East Economic Puzzle: Theory of Relative Incompetence, Verboten Economics, Verboten Politics...……..

Seppuku in Arabia: of Sports, Irate Princes, Ancient Samurai Rituals……….

Jihadists Claim CIA Hijacking, Cry Foul Play………

Wilson’s Clever Spontaneous Outburst: a Lame Camel for Sale……..

A Tale of Two Economies (Part II): Doing the Arabian Math, Fuzzy Demographics, Subsidizing Polygamy…….

A Tale of Two Economies (Part I): Doing the Math, Outsourcing Jobs, Risky Wyoming Foreplay……..

In Praise of a “Prince” or Two..……

Have Fatwa, Will Travel

Iran and the Nuke: Does She, or Doesn’t She……

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