February 2012
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“الثورات يدبرها الدهاة و ينفذها الشجعان ثم يكسبها الجبناء
Revolutions are...”
– Naguib Mahfouz (via egyptiansoapbox)
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– The password Syrian President Bashar Assad apparently had for some of his email accounts, which were hacked by Anonymous. (via arabstateofmind)
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According to a the New York Observer, Kanye West and his creative team are scouting locations in the Middle East where they will begin production on a film, set to shoot starting in March. The crew plan to live in the region while filming, “as part of an effort to create an ‘authentic’ depiction of the culture.”
please, no.
this is sure to go the way of the great ‘08 arab money...
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Some Background Reading To The Tragedy In Egypt →
pitchinvasion:
Beyond horrible.
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DEF JAM will probably never sign them, but Cheikh Oumar Cyrille Touré, from a small town about 100 miles southeast of Dakar, Senegal, and Hamada Ben Amor, a 22-year-old man from a port city 170 miles southeast of Tunis, may be two of the most influential rappers in the history of hip-hop.
During the recent wave of revolutions across the Arab world and the protests against illegitimate...
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The Creative Brain On Exercise →
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President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address again rated at an 8th grade comprehension level on the Flesch-Kincaid readability test — the third lowest score of any State of the Union address since 1934.
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“In a development typical of Arizona, the students who walked out on Thursday,...”
– Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Arizona’s ‘banned’ Mexican American books
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The multiple registers Bolaño can manage in a single story—in a single paragraph (wickedly funny, terrifying, morose, tender)—have always amazed me. Other qualities that particularly engage me are his love of the underdog and the marginalized (drifters; people working menial, makeshift jobs; porn stars) and his obsession with courage. While he touches on bravery in every book he ever wrote, he...
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Iran to give U.S. a toy model of downed American...
A toy model of the RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone will be sent to the White House in response to a formal request from Washington asking Iran to return the aircraft.
somehow, i don’t think this is what the administration had in mind.
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One of the most terrifying things about the internet is the way in which it draws you inexorably towards what you really, secretly, actually want, offering somewhere in its great boiling unfenced farrago an absolute match for whatever half-realised desire might flicker across your networked lobes. You cannot escape. The allure of endless choice will find you out, whether it is the simple urge to...
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