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Maybe There’s a Devil : Salman Rushdie Comes to DC

In DC, india, Islam, News, novel, Opinion, pakistan, Palestine, Politics, religion, War on 17 November 2010 tagged @alibomaye, A.W. Tozer, Barbara Meade, Bombay, DC, fatwa, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, Haround and the Sea of Stories, Kashmir, Mumbai, Politics and Prose, Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses, Sixth & I, The Satanic Verses, Twitter with no comments

“The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.” Walking into a packed house of excited and anxious people at the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, DC, I couldn’t help but feel a little uneasy to know that all of this fervor and anticipation was for Salman [...]

Chris Brown Beats Up Rihanna Gets Slap on Wrist

In Crime, fame, Hip Hop, Music, novel, Opinion, pictures, R&B on 22 June 2009 tagged abuse, Chrianna, Chris Brown, CNN, Mark Geragos, plea deal, probation, rihanna, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, TMZ with 2 comments

He did this: And got this: A plea deal has been reached in the assault case against Chris Brown, defense attorney Mark Geragos said in a hearing Monday. Under terms of the agreement, Brown will serve five years of probation. The singer was in court Monday over charges related to his argument with girlfriend Rihanna [...]

President Obama’s Cairo Speech Reminded Me of Alaa Al Aswany’s ‘Chicago’

In citizenship, Crime, History, Islam, novel, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Racism, religion, War on 4 June 2009 tagged Alaa Al Aswany, Cairo Speech, Cairo University, Chicago, Democracy, Hijab, Husni Mubarak, Islam, novel, Politics, University of Illinois with 1 comment

Chicago is about a group of young Egyptian medical students who come to the University of Illinois at Chicago and are faced with political, religious, and cultures battles as they prepare for the arrival of an un-named Egyptian President to the Windy City. The book tackles many cultural, political, and religious issues alluded to in [...]

Pixar Proves You Can Go UP! But Never Back

In Art, cartoon, Film, Music, novel, Opinion, pictures on 30 May 2009 tagged animation, Annie Lennox, Bob Peterson, books, Carl Fredrickson, Christopher Plummer, Disney, Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, Mr. Fredrickson, Mrs. Bentley, Pavement Cracks, Pixar, Russell, UP! with no comments

Watching UP! today reminded me of a story in Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine. Mr. Fredrickson meets Mrs. Bentley: You can only be what you are here and now. Where is my comfort zone? A simple place to call my own ‘Cause everything I wanna be Comes crashing down on me And it don‘t show up [...]

The Kite Runner Set to the Tunes of Bowling For Soup

In Afghanistan, Art, Blog, cartoon, Internet, novel, pictures, War on 2 May 2009 tagged 1985, Afghanistan, AlissaGranger, Amir, books, Bowling for Soup, Hassan, Hazara, Khaled Hosseini, Literature, McDonalds, Saurabh, taliban, The Kite Runner, Toys, Video, Youtube with 2 comments

This is somewhere between bisyaar cute and bisyaar lame, but I guess that’s what makes it perfect for Youtube. The best part though, was hearing the original Bowling for Soup lyrics in the background.