Probably weird to say “my favorite” but I have a good reason. In January 2007 the New Yorker published a profile of Adam Gadahn, the Northern California hippie child who ended up joining Al-Qaeda and becoming the group’s official English-language...

Investigate and expose from Tactical Technology Collective on Vimeo. Via 3arabawy. Filed under: Democracy, Egypt Tagged: Information, Internet, Torture

And you thought Tim Sebastian’s analysis of the Middle East’s problems through the lens of Cairo traffic was stupid? Well, this time, the New York Times, in honor of the Winter Olympics, turns its essentializing gaze towards our northern...

Didn’t I tell you the Israel-as-South-Africa narrative was picking up steam and the Isarelis are worried about it? AP says: Barak said if Israel controls the West Bank and Gaza but does not allow Palestinians to vote, “that will be an apartheid...

Michael Slackman has once again reaffirmed my suspicion that the primary duty of a foreign correspondent for a major American newspaper is to read the local press and then digest it for American audiences. This time (unlike with the garbage story), I...