Hail, The Arab Bikini Revolution!

Do Arab parents mind their daughter's modelling bikini-wear on regional magazine cover? Doe it make a different if the model is Christian Arab? Just someone of the questions being bandied about given this latest Arab-Israeli 'bombshell'.

Ushering in the Arab Bikini Revolution, on the back of (or torso) of Huda Naccache, Israel's fully Arab-Israeli hybrid model.

"As a casual observer of the online community, the editor cannot come to terms with how deeply sucked some of its members get into the normalcies of the internet culture. They start acting, speaking, and being involved in actions that would not be considered culturally appropriate elsewhere."

"Few Fridays ago, early in the morning, I received an SMS from my science apotheosizing dear friend, conveying news to the effect that the light speed barrier was shattered at the CERN. That was very interesting, but insufficient; was it, at a more precise level, the discovery of a superluminal particle, or accelerating a particle across the infamous "c" threshold? A little bit later I learned it was a possibility of the former and not the latter."

"Senators have been forced to quit and ministers have handed in their foreign passports to their respective embassies. This has all been part of the latest constitutional amendment taking its toll, which states that public officials, including parliamentarians and ministers, cannot hold dual citizenship. The reason? Foreign citizenship allows officials to be protected by laws of foreign governments and thus cannot be held accountable by Jordanian laws. Suddenly, after all that has happened and continues to happen in the country, the Jordanian state is concerned with holding people accountable."

"Please note: The following was written a few days ago following a largely Coptic protest at Maspero. Obviously, it must be reconsidered in light of the horrible events of this evening, in which several were killed. All the same, this should do well to set the context for what happened today."

"It is not because I have strong roots with Africa. It is not because he is most highly regarded and renowned internationally. It is not because he is one of the greatest moral and political leaders of our time. But, Nelson Mandela's autobiography: Long Walk to Freedom, written by him, is one of the greatest, most; absorbing and most emotionally touching biographies I have ever read."