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In the catalogue of Middle East-centered weblogs, you might want to look at this new effort by Tony Badran, a Lebanese friend who is a doctoral student at New York University. It's raw and sometimes over the top (Robert Fisk is a "blabber-mouth", Syrian minister Bouthaina Shaaban authors "junk", a Jonathan Raban passage is "utter bullshit"); it?s frantic; it?s great fun; and it?s blissfully insolent when it comes to Arab nationalist myths.
Plus, anyone who quotes Reason authors at will as does Badran and refers to yours truly as ?indispensable? merits a plug.
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|5.19.04 @ 4:15AM|#
Clearly a self-hating native informer ;-)
|5.19.04 @ 11:11AM|#
"...Arab nationalist myths..."
Well, all nationalist philosophies are based on myths (this even includes the U.S.); indeed, the primitive atavism that nationalism can exhibit illustrates this point nicely.
|6.29.04 @ 2:50AM|#
At NYU there is no doctoral student in the Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies Department?
|6.29.04 @ 2:50AM|#
At NYU there is no doctoral student in the Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies Department?
|6.29.04 @ 2:51AM|#
That is by the name of Tony Badran.