Paralympics: The secret success of Kuwait

Kuwait's secret Paralympic wins; The low-down on Lebanese smoking laws; Why elections matter; Mubarak's frozen British assets.

2:48 AM [2]

Kuwait at the Paralympics

I hope I’m not too late posting about this but I just found out from Kuwaitiful’s blog that not only is Kuwait competing at the Paralympics but that since 1980 they’ve won 49 medals including 10 gold. Why did I just hear about this! At the current Paralympics that’s taking place in London Kuwait has a total of six athletes competing. For more details check out Kuwaitiful’s post...

Blkbtrfli [3]

Smoking Law #174

Overview on the Smoking Laws in Lebanon and the world on Tobaccocontrollaws.org, where you can download the law draft in English and Arabic(original) with copies of Law No. 394/95 issued in 1995 about smoking, last years’ initial ban (Law No. 174, Tobacco Control and Regulation of Tobacco Products’ Manufacturing, Packaging and Advertising) and the latest draft issued on January 2012, Decree No. 7437.

Eat Bees [4]

Elections Do Matter

First, consider this article by Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic, Fear of a Black President. It is an impassioned analysis of how President Obama has been constrained throughout his term by the “dying embers” of white racism in America. It is a long, incisive, “angry” (his word) analysis, which deserves to be read carefully as a study of American history and our current discourse from a black perspective. Coates’ main argument is that by the simple fact of his blackness, Obama faces barriers to his legitimacy that a white president with the same politics wouldn’t have. He must always be on his best behavior, or “twice as good,” as Coates puts it. This makes him unable to “speak candidly” on the question of race, or by extension, many of the other issues confronting our nation today.

Egyptian Chronicles [5]

Shall the British ambassador be summoned over this !??

BBC Arabic produced a very important documentary called “Egypt’s stolen billion” about Mubarak’s assets in the UK and it is much watch now in this very critical time. According to this important documentary we are waiting for , Britain allowed 19 key members of Mubarak’s corrupted regime to retain some of their frozen assets !! These assets that will take us years to restore back.