Arabs Want Burgers not Kings

National identity in the Middle East is not as straightforward as before (if it ever was) with new flags and challenges of loyalty versus rebellion. The Middle East undergoes an existential crisis...

New Burger Joints in Middle East cause grammar protests

Beirut Drive-By Shooting [2]

Verbal Agreement

Do burgers observe laws of grammar?

The Arabist [3]

Omar Mukhtar, icon of the Libyan uprising

On social media associated with the Libyan uprising of 2011, two images have become ubiquitous. One is the pre-Qaddafi flag of the Libyan monarchy. The other is the image of Omar Mukhtar, a guerrilla leader killed by the Italians in 1931.

KABOBFEST [4]

Democracy is Not a Right

In a recent article clearly mistakenly published by the McGill Tribune, columnist Vicky Tobianah argued that the Egyptian revolution was first, and foremost, a revolution for food. That the starving people of Egypt wanted to be able to eat before they wanted a free and democratic society. She also felt pangs of fear for possible ensuing instability in the region with the toppling of Hosni Mubarak. And by regional, she really only meant Israel.

Libya’s new flag? [5]

New flags sprouting up in the Arab world like during the dissolution of the former Soviet Union....

The Hamdanism [6]

Universal Deception: The Secret and Paulo Coelho Rah Rah

Hush. The Secret (Say no more)

Untamed Shrew [7]

And on a Serious Note, Am I Jordanian??

When confronted with the rain of protests, this 'citizen' realized that things were not so simple as 'to protest or not to protest' I have a problem. I don’t know if I am Jordanian.