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Dodge Middle East: "Are You Dodge?"
They keep showing this ad while I’m watching episodes of 04 online.
I guess it grew on me? …
Bassem Youssef: "Why you do this?"
From the January 4 episode of “Bernameg al-Bernameg” (“The Show Show”), Bassem Youssef responds to the lawsuits filed against him…
"Just a second, Mister President.": Morsi look-alike at Alexandria demonstration
This really has no broader significance. I was just entertained…
Bassem Youssef: "To us, you aren't sheikhs or 'ulama."
I know that some people are sick of the more serious serious segments of Bassem Youssef’s “Bernameg al-Bernameg” (literally, “The Show Show”), but I thought this one, from his December 21 episode, was useful…
Mehio, "What is Qatar doing in Kuwait and the Emirates?"
Below is a translation of Lebanese journalist and commentator Saad Mehio‘s September 22 read on intra-Gulf relations — more specifically, those between Qatar and everyone else. (Via the Twitter feed of Professor Abdulkhaleq Abdulla.) …
Al-Dustour, "Egypt Will Only Be Saved From Death and Destruction by the Union of the Army and the People"
Below is a translation of the front-page editorial that seems to have led to the confiscation of privately owned newspaper Al-Dustour’s Saturday, August 11 edition…
Al-Qassemi Response: Al-Athbah, "'A New Horizon'?"
Below is a translation of Abdullah bin Hamad al-Athbah’s response (published in Qatari newspaper Al-Arab on July 9) to Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi’s critical account of Al Jazeera Arabic’s “love affair” with the Muslim Brotherhood (“Morsi’s Win Is Al Jazeera’s Loss”, English and Arabic)…