Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus-Arabia Deserta: Monthly Archives for January 2010

Repentant Terrorists: Three Strikes and You’r Out, Depending…………….

Middle East Media Mouthpieces, War of Satellites………….

Qaddafi Fails to Change Africans into Arabs………

Bin Laden as John Muir: Lauds Kyoto and Chomsky, Ignores Ibn Taimiyya, Sartre, and Camus ………..

Yemen Tourism and al-Qaeda Internship………….

Whodunit in Dubai, Waffling in Dubai…….....

The Dictator and the Swine……….

Afghan Women for Sale, Moderate Taliban and Modest Hookers…………………

A Foggy Persian-American Gulf………….

Iranians Bracing for February Protests……………….

Yemen Edified, Better Known Than Health Care or Filibuster…………

Iranian Science: Shangoul and Mangoul and What Would Sarah Palin Say…….

OPEC’s Future Dilemma: Iraqi and Iranian Potential and a Saudi Fear………..

Sarkozy’s Battle of Hastings Peters Out…………

Saudi-Huthi War: Phony Truce, Real Blood………….

The Poodle that Roared: Tony Blair Plays to his New Base, Urges New Gulf War…………

The New Era: Arab Decline Revisited……..

West Bank: a Dark Horse Awaiting…………

Arabian Best-Sellers: Saffiya's Choice, NASA and a Day of Judgment…….

Hamas and Israel: Back to the Future?.............

Tango Argentino: Economics of Cristina’s Erotic Pigs………….

WEF at Davos: CEOs and Piaf, Ils ne Regrettent Rien………….

Threading the Iranian Needle: of Sanctions, Nominal Targets, and Real Victims……………

Bin Laden Goes Green, Salafis and Global Warming……….

Lebanon-Israel: Case of a Nomadic Gypsy Village………

Africa Cup: the Mubaraks Miss One……………

Their Camel Shaikhs Are Better……………..

Of Oligarchies and Fake Parliaments………..

Islamophobia and Goebbels and Sherlock Holmes……………

The Gulf: Of Missing Sailors and Globalization of Fishing……………..

Muthaffar al-Nawab ‘s Poetry on Leadership, and Jerusalem………

Wild Political Fatwas: the Saudi and Israeli Examples………..

Economic Fatwas in al-Anbar………….

Iranian Agents in the Land of Percy Cox and Gertrude Bell…………

Earth to Obama: What About “the” Middle East Problem? a GOP Midnight-Sun Tan...............

Global Warming Hits Egypt, Send in the Clowns………………

Lebanese Dichotomy: Switzerland of the Middle East, Hell in the Middle East………….

Davos "Mystery" Suicide, Was Economic and Political BS the Culprit?............

An American Gulag? An International Gulag?...................

Tehran Executions, an Unshakable Quaint Iranian Phobia of Ajax…………..

Palin’s Tea Convention, the Best and Brightest ARE Dead……….

Shock and Awe on the Nile, Free Elections Coming…………..

End of World Physics, End of Politics, Middle East Nirvana………..

Pushy Clinton, Maverick(y) Iranians, Annoying Sarkozy, Dank Neocon Cellars……………

In America: the Best and the Brightest are Dead, the Proof………………..

HRW, Our Inhumane Human Rights...................

SAAB: Surviving Wars, Now Sniffing Tulips………….

Saudis at U.S. Airports, What if Nasrallah……….

Khamenai ‘s Bold Prediction, Nuestro Nostradamus?………….

U S Business Chamber Opposes Iran Sanctions……….

West Bank Dilemma, Adding Injury to Insult……

Israel and Hezbollah: a Troubling Anniversary Looms, that Elusive Humor……

Bahrain al-Qaeda Conviction, Sectarians R Us………..

Likud and the Minimum Wage, They Feel Pretty and………………

The French, Obsession de la Voile, Obsession de l'Amour, What About Health Care…………

A Huthi Confession?..................

Globalized Ethereal State of al-Qaeda: Doing God’s Work, Bonuses Deferred, no Green Jobs and no Steve Jobs……….

The Imam of ISI, the Teetering State of Pakistan………….

Of Mass Graves and DNA, Where the Sun Shines (from) in the Middle East, Chemical Ali Hassan………….

Ghosts of Halabja, Iraq to Sue European WMD Suppliers…………

Angry Economics of Love and Marriage in Egypt, Sex and the Single Leader…….

Gulf Economies: Plebeians Keeping Up with the Potentates, the Self-employed Speculators and the Unemployable……….

The Five Wives of King Osama, Just an Average Salafi Family Guy………

Hugo Chavez (XIVeme): L’etat, C’est Moi?………..

Iraq Elections Cacophony, a Bush Doctrine for Salafis, Appointed Royal Dog Catchers……….

Chavez and the U S Congress: What He Learned from H. R. 2278……..

Rafsanjani and Luca Brasi: an Offer he Could not Refuse?............

Iran Aviation: they’d Rather Have Boeings……………..

Ahmadinejad Teases the World: Promises Good News………

Nasrallah on Their Minds……………

The Killjoy KIms of Korea, and the Winner is Un, Un Quoi?…………

Middle East Human Rights, Ya Right………

Iran Arts Festival Rendered Not so Festive…………..

A Playground Marriage, a Soft Media War, a Legal Crime…………….

Middle East Regimes to Police Satellite Channels……………

Iranians Lament Georgia: from Peach State to Republic of Kidnapping?………

Iran Warning of Meteor over Baghdad, More Military Coup Talk……..

Joe Biden: from Irish Catholic to Irish Shi’a…………

Captive Women of Aden, From Secular Socialism to Tribal Wahhabism………

Venezuela to Overtake Saudi Arabia? Agnostic Madrassas of Orinoco....…..

A New Israeli Hail Mary in Lebanon? Netanyahu's Faustian Deal of 2009...........

Ptolemaic Cathouse Uncovered……………

Captive Women of Arabia: the Sky Rains Gold but Only for Potentates………..

Prodigal Camels Coming Home: Saudis Rescue Australian Dromedaries……………

Cyrus Cylinder of Iran, Rosetta Stone of Egypt, an Obelisk but No Dogs in Paris……….

Iran: Robust Sanctions and Robust Satellites, Lobotomy as a Solution……………

Taliban-ing the Gulf?………

Ministry of Marriage, Regression Analysis of Love in Arabia………....

Jacko’s Near Conversion, Epiphany Among Charming Neo Royals……………

What the MEMRI, Equal Opportunity Propaganda?……………

A Softer Gentler Taliban, But Can they Win in Massachusetts?..............

Victory for Terrorists, Jewish Youth Suspected of Terror, No Lethal Quran ………….

Chavez Out of Control, HAARP and Haiti…………

The Next War, Likud and the Ghosts of Entebbe, Lieberman and Eban………..

Strange Case of Murdoch and al-Waleed: first Contempt then Familiarity ………..

Mercenaries R US, Return to Old Tortuga……….

Arab States to Tighten Media Controls, Focus on Internet ………

Come Up and See me Sometime, Y’all Zionists……………

Next OECD Member: High Tech, High Poverty, High Corruption, Fits Right in…………

Obama and the Israeli Teabagger, F for.....………

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