Beirut2Bayside

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.

Comments

[SM]

Clearly a self-hating native informer 😉

[Gary Gunnels]

"...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.

[Mike]

At NYU there is no doctoral student in the Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies Department?

[Mike]

At NYU there is no doctoral student in the Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies Department?

[Mike]

That is by the name of Tony Badran.