If you or your loved ones happen to be on Facebook

You should join a little group called Arab Comment (and prod your loved ones to do so… And if they don’t want to, bribe them with sexual favours). It has to do with this site (which is going to be awesome, as soon as it’s re-designed). It also has a pithy group description. As IContinue reading “If you or your loved ones happen to be on Facebook”

To expand on something Umar Lee said

I have been, a number of times, propositioned by “conservative” Muslim men. The ones who, like Umar says: “date non-Muslim women strictly for sexual purposes, then go home to marry a good girl from the village” (read his whole post, it’s very interesting, as usual). In fact, a guy tried to grab me in theContinue reading “To expand on something Umar Lee said”

The case for (?) Diana

I’d hate to see what kind of bile Germaine Greer would dump on my life if it were as scrutinized and well-publicized as the late Princess Diana’s. Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Almost everyone’s life is a mess. Perhaps there are monks on Aphon, or totem pole carvers in Alaska who have things figured out –Continue reading “The case for (?) Diana”