Sometimes I will go through my sites visitor statistics to see what people are reading and how they got to the site. Today I was glancing around and I saw the usual, recent posts, The Battle for Hummus and Falafel, Hot Egyptian Girls and any post involving Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I spotted another […]

Last night I had a romantic encounter with a mango, 2 of them actually.
I came home late, tired, exhausted and in no mood to read the news or write anything. I sat on the couch watching a late re-run of The Colbert Report and stared at my computer as it sat sprawled out on my […]

Saturday afternoon my Mother called me while I was out with my friends watching a soccer game on TV. Her first words were, “how are you…good, I have something to tell you”. I hate words like those because they are the predictable precursor to upsetting news. Sensing the bad news I stepped away from the […]

I remembered this story after a discussion with Forsoothsayer and after watching this video. It’s a personal favorite. Enjoy!
Several months ago, immediately following the summer’s Israel/Lebanon skirmish, I went downtown to meet a Palestinian friend (Shadi) and a Jewish friend (Barry) for lunch. The mere fact that an Egyptian, a Palestinian and a Jew are […]

I have been lucky enough to meet a lot of people who have lived in Iraq, still live in Iraq, have fought in Iraq or are still fighting in Iraq and the stories are amazing. Some sad, some sick, some scary. This week I will tell a few of them, consider it a multi-part series. […]

There is an Arabic coffee shop here that I go to on a very regular basis, I even joke that its like my own personal social club. Like many Arabic coffee shops they have a big screen TV with Arabic satellite channels on it. At night they play Arabic music videos on channels […]