Husband's jealous rage over wife's education leaves her nose bitten off and her eyes guaged out

"I found this story very disturbing from the time I first learned of it, as a brief news item, 2 days ago. Since then, the increased attention to, and detail given about, the blinding of a Master's candidate in Political Science has become more challenging to learn about, let alone live. "
"Ms Monzur had returned to her native Bangladesh to visit her 5-year-old daughter and her husband during a summer break after the first year of her Master's studies, when she was attacked and blinded by her husband, Hassan Syeed, who gouged her eyes out, bit off part of her nose, and attacked her on the neck." (in front of her 5-year-old daughter)

"Remember back in May I posted about how Paris HIlton’s show My New BFF was being filmed in Dubai? Well the show ended a couple of days back and the contestant that won the competition is Kuwait’s very own Reem Al Alnezi (pictured above). She’s now Paris Hilton’s new best friend which I have no idea what that means."

"Lebanese expats everywhere, or at least in the United States, wonder no more as by the looks of it, you will be able to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections, set to take place in 2013. All you have to do is register by December 31st 2012 to be eligible."

"I was recently asked by a 12-year old adorable and very intelligent American boy “Was Bin Laden a Moslem?” I answered “Yes”."

"The spectacular and expeditious ousting of Mubarak and Ben-Ali left many scrambling for a convenient interpretation. What largely emerged however were hastily constructed narratives designed more to confirm their authors’ convictions than to reveal meaning. It didn’t take long however for those accounts to be rattled by the subsequent uprisings not adhering to the neat model observed in Egypt and Tunisia. Libya’s uprising was the first to deviate from the script, followed by Bahrain, Yemen and lastly Syria. As we encounter complex situations threatening extended periods of instability, it's time to dispel some of the lingering myths about the uprisings."

"A couple of weeks ago, I encountered a news item that transformed my mood into what I can only describe as a mix of sadness, quiet anger and helplessness. The news was of a jailed Iranian journalist and activist, Mr. Hoda Saber, who had died of a heart attack resulting from a 10-day hunger strike. "