American Hummus
Beiruti
- Location
- Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Bio
- Media and Tech Geek into global affairs, arts and social issues
MY RECENT POSTS
- Closing The Divide
March 10, 2010 10:34AM - World Briefing - Middle East -
Israel - Man Hits Judge With
Tossed Shoe - NYTimes.com
January 28, 2010 10:09AM - There Is Hope In Mascara...
January 05, 2010 10:46AM - Top Ten Reasons This Decade
Sucked
December 28, 2009 01:18PM - A case of a Teapot and a
Kettle
December 13, 2009 07:08PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Great for Fiji indeed..
maybe Virginia will be
next”
March 10, 2010 11:43AM - “Didn't go to ACS, the
American School there.. but
close
enough.. it was up the
st…”
October 19, 2009 10:12AM - “you're welcome
Stellaa
I think
Biden's presence really
reflected a limited
knowled…”
June 08, 2009 12:07AM - “Not sure if I would call
that "Western Values" as much
as
they are more…”
April 21, 2009 01:23AM - “Seriously?
As a
gay man in my forties, I have
to disagree with this
post.
Neith…”
April 06, 2009 06:59PM
Beiruti's Links
Closing The Divide
The FCC proposed a National Digital Literacy Corps at the Digital Inclusion Summit at the Newseum in Washington D.C. yesterday to help bridge the digital divide as part of a national broadband plan due out March 17. The Digital Literacy Corps, modeled after volunteer programs such as AmeriCorps, will… Read full post »
World Briefing - Middle East - Israel - Man Hits Judge With Tossed Shoe - NYTimes.com
Top Ten Reasons This Decade Sucked
Here is my list, what is yours?
10 - The Tsunami in Indonesia: A scary reminder of Mother Nature's
wrath...
9 - The Global Recession - We came close... very very close.. and
we're still in deep trouble
8- The 2006 Israeli War On Lebanon - The apartheid state
launches… Read full post »
A case of a Teapot and a Kettle
Earlier this evening, Accenture, the global consulting firm, announced they were ending their advertising relation with Tiger Woods. According to their web site, Accenture claims that: "given the circumstances of the last two weeks ... the company has determined that he is no longer the right r… Read full post »
US Media and Olmert
I love radio, always have and always will. And while other media platforms have grown and exploded around me, radio will always have a special place in my heart.
Growing up in Beirut in the midst of a brutal civil war, my little transistor radio was my escape hatch. … Read full post »
Separation of Church (or Mosque) and Retail
A Muslim teenager
claims in a federal lawsuit that she was denied a job at an
Abercrombie & Fitch clothing store at a Tulsa mall because she
wore a head scarf. The manager of the store apparently told the
teen that her Hijab (head scarf) violated the company's "Look"
policy./… A Match Towards Normalization?
For all the negative press Al Jazeera gets in US circles, little attention is given to the recent news about the network's plans to carry Israeli sports on their sister network: Al Jazeera Sports.
A match of the European Champions League that has the Israelis playing Munich will be broadcast, leading/…
Transgender belly dancer helps launch Arab gay initiative in Sweden
The setting is the…
Beirut: City Of Projected Fantasies
By Diamond Walid
Diamond Walid is the pen-name of a Lebanese-Croatian TV producer and writer, based in Beirut
Beirut has been labelled the Paris, sometimes the Switzerland, of the Middle East. According to one recent New York Times article, it is now the region's Provincetown (the/
… Read full post »
On Al Jazeera...
Now that Al Jazeera English is finally available in the US (at least in the DC metro area and on select PBS stations), here are some intersting quotes about the network:
"The only country we haven't been
kicked out of is Israel. Even the Palestinians kicked us out
once"
Former… Read full post »
Our Civilized "Allies"
Sixty-seven Filipino men working in Saudi Arabia face jail and lashes for "imitating women" after being arrested at a party in which a number were dressed in drag, a Philippines embassy official said on Saturday.
Riyadh police arrested all 67 men at a private party and drag show in a resort… Read full post »
Netanyahu's Song And Dance
After more than a week of anticipation, today's speech by Netanyahu was such a dispointment and essentially offered nothing new. Based on the buzz that preceeded the speech, peace activists from all sides were hoping for a major change in Israeli attitudes, instead, what they got… Read full post »
Hot Lebanese Summer
The early results of the Lebanese elections are indicating a victory for the supporters of the current government (aka March 14th coalition). That is pretty sad and an indication that things in that secterian driven country are not about to change anytime soon.
While US media outlets like… Read full post »
Help... Censorship
Remember that scene in the wonderful "Cinema Paradiso" (Oscar for best foreign movie, 1990) where the village priest, a one-hand censorship committee, sits all alone in the darkened movie theater to do his dirty deed while Philippe Noiret's Alfredo plays him the latest flick? The one-handed deed bein/…
Today's Apple Homepage takeover of the NY Times is brilliant in terms of creativity and execution. The ad, which celebrates the one billionth download of iPhone apps, is cleverly synched and even features nice music.
However, the placement is a bit questionable. … Read full post »
Oh, The Chutzpah
This morning, Reuters is reporting that the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement saying that he and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman had decided to recall Ambassador Ilan Elgar from Berne "for consultations and in protest at the conference in Geneva". The conferenc… Read full post »
Murders In Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Six gay men were shot dead by members of their tribe in two separate incidents in the past 10 days, an official with Iraq's Interior ministry said.
In the most recent attack, two men were killed Thursday in Sadr City area of Baghdad after they were disowned by… Read full post »
What's On The Royal iPod?
Obama is no fan of the British monarchy or colonial history... that is no surprise. From the removal of the Churchill bust from the White House, to the cheap gift of DVDs given to prime minister Gordon Brown.
Today, we have another piece of evidence of what some will consider "bad… Read full post »
Are Gays That Shallow?
Is it just me or is gay culture becoming too fluff and shallow?
It seems that only a decade ago gay culture was a leading force and a trendsetter for our overall culture. Gay writers were celebrated as their books sold like crazy. Gay filmmakers, musicians, artists, were all conside… Read full post »
Skokie, Palestine
There was rioting in the Palestinian town of Umm El Fahm in Israel
yesterday due to a planned march by an ultra nationalist Israeli
group who insisted on parading the middle of town. The Israeli high
court gave permission to the highly controversial request, but
police had postponed it severa… Read full post »
The Wrong America
I haven't updated my blog for a while
You see, I had a death in the family and had to drop everything and run down to suburban Virginia to be with my family
This past sunday, I had to take a trip further out in rural VA to take care of… Read full post »
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