McNamara Ground-ops lunch room coffee machine

If only we could get Palestinian olive oil, and grapefruit from the southern Lebanon coast...in Detroit, where the late Michael Jackson began his career with Motown Records. Here is a picture of these precious foods, available at the coop store in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Michael Jackson may have been able to buy Palestinian Olive oil and Jaffa oranges(but from Lebanon) when he was in Bahrain recovering from the horrid trial against him.

from my apartment-watching BBC on Iran

The coverage of the pro-Ahmedinajad and pro-Musawi movements in Iran continues on BBC TV. The BBC often points to the crisis of the regime because of the Guardian council's not recognizing the request of the Musawi supporters to hold new elections. Of course, this is kind of wishfull thinking on the part of the BBC and western govenmemts, who persist in their old grudge against the Iranians for having ousted the Shah and the SAVAC secret police in 1979. While the BBC and now, as of yesterday Ban Ki Moon of the UN, criticize the alleged crackdown on the Mussavi demonstrations, they do have a point in that there are deep divisions in the Iranian capitaist regime right now, and the pro-Mussavi and pro-Ahmedinajad movements are a reflection of this.
The BBC did not and has not interviewed the point of view of workers and farmers in Iran, but rather only the middle class sectors of north Tehran. Ahmedinajad has support, probably, among the poor, and among the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij, but he too, is wavering on whether give up Iran's centrifuge uranium production in order to end the sanctions on Iran.

Café de Flore, Paris-cafés dans la classe d'anglais!!!

Dans ma classe d'anglais à Dhahran nous avons fait une filière du Café de Flore parisien, et du Café Fishawi du Caire et de Jeddah. Visiter ce site pour voir voir mes élèves dans leurs cafés dans ma salle de classe.

Fishawi Tea Shop, Cairo

Obama came to Egypt early this morning; so the streets were cleared so that nobody could throw the occasional shoe at him. Here in the Hussein area, we're disappointed he didn't bring his wife and children to show that Egypt is still good for tourism and that Egyptians are friendly. He just lectured us about Islam the way he has gotten used to doing lecturing the CEO's of General Motors, as if he's serious about little people's concerns.