12/15/2013
Shati' Tea and Felafel Shop, Gaza
All accounts of poetry shall be from Gaza
Mandela's speech to anti-apartheid activists in Tiger Stadium, Detroit, July 1990. I was there and clapped my hands so hard they hurt.
We are going to FREE South Africa,
(applause)
so that all citizens,
black and white,
live in harmony and peace.
The idea of freedom and democracy
has reached the masses of our people
It is an IDEA for which the people struggle
and if need be give their lives.
(applause)
Due to the untiring efforts,
Heroism, and courage of our people,
supported by you and millions of people like you
throughout the world,
we can say with confidence:
“Vicory is in sight.”
(applause)
As in a marathon race
the last mile could prove to be the most painful,
difficult and impossible.
As we journey along -- that last mile,
we will continue to rely on your solidarity.
As we journey along --that last mile
we ask you to maintain sanctions
And intensify pressure.
(applause)
From this rostrum let me say:
I admire you
I respect you
And, above all,
I love you.
Shati' Tea and Felafel Shop, Gaza
All accounts of poetry shall be from Gaza
Mandela's speech to anti-apartheid activists in Tiger Stadium, Detroit, July 1990. I was there and clapped my hands so hard they hurt.
1955 ANC Freedom Charter...McNamara Ground Operations Coffee Machine, Detroit Wayne County Metro Airport
All news foreign and domestic shall be from McNamara Ground Ops coffee shop,
where bankruptcy judge has ruled that all city worker's pensions will be revoked, in order to "restructure the debt" and continue to pay interest to the richest City of Detroit Bond Holders.
Ironically, Mandela came to Detroit in 1990 before he became president, to put pressure -- pressure partly coming from this big African American Working class community -- to force the Apartheid government to step down and hold elections.
Here are some highlights of Mandela and the ANC, particularly July 1955 when the meeting of 3,000 adopted the Freedom Charter: "When Mandela first joined the struggle he considered himself an Africanist, skeptical of whether or not Indians and Coloureds “could truly embrace our cause” and was “firmly opposed to allowing Communists or whites to join” the ANC. But through experiences in the struggle, Mandela changed his views and organized to overthrow apartheid by helping to mobilize a mass movement of all those who opposed it.
In 1952 the ANC and the South African Indian Congress launched the Defiance Campaign, the first large-scale, multiracial mobilization against the apartheid laws imposed by the National Party. Mandela was its central organizer. More than 8,000 were thrown in jail.
The new laws were not overturned “but the Defiance Campaign marked a new chapter in the struggle,” Mandela wrote. “Our membership swelled to 100,000. The ANC emerged as a truly mass-based organization with an impressive corps of experienced activists who had braved the police, the courts, and the jails.” In 1954, the ANC together with the Indian Congress, the recently formed South African Coloured Peoples Organization and the Congress of Democrats, made up of white opponents of apartheid, issued a call for a Congress of the People, which met June 25-26, 1955, attended by more than 3,000 delegates. “Although the overwhelming numbers of delegates were black, there were more than three hundred Indians, two hundred Coloureds, and one hundred whites,” Mandela said.
Before the police broke up the gathering, participants approved the Freedom Charter. “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white,” the charter said. It put forward a series of demands. The first four headings were: “The people shall govern! All national groups shall have equal rights! The people shall share in the country’s wealth! The land shall be shared among those who work it!” The charter called for the nationalization of the banks and mines.
The Freedom Charter triggered a sharp debate, including in the ANC itself where a minority, which soon split from the organization, backed the view that “South Africa was for Africans, and no one else” and considered whites and Indians “foreign minority groups.”
In 1962 Mandela was arrested after returning to South Africa from a tour of African countries where he sought financing and military training for the newly formed armed wing of the ANC, Spear of the Nation. The next year Mandela and seven others were convicted on charges of sabotage and conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.
In October 1975 the South African army invaded Angola, hoping to crush the liberation movement against Portuguese rule there, deal a blow to the anti-colonial revolution on the continent and thereby strengthen apartheid rule at home.
At the request of the newly independent Angolan government, thousands of Cuban volunteer combatants went to Angola and in less than six months stopped the South African invasion in its tracks. The myth of the invincibility of the apartheid regime was punctured."
*quoted from the December 23 newsweekly with the views of Pathfinder press. Subscriptions to this newsweekly can be had by writing to Pathfinder Press/SWP, 306 W. 37th St. 10th Floor, New York, NY 10018
where bankruptcy judge has ruled that all city worker's pensions will be revoked, in order to "restructure the debt" and continue to pay interest to the richest City of Detroit Bond Holders.
Ironically, Mandela came to Detroit in 1990 before he became president, to put pressure -- pressure partly coming from this big African American Working class community -- to force the Apartheid government to step down and hold elections.
Here are some highlights of Mandela and the ANC, particularly July 1955 when the meeting of 3,000 adopted the Freedom Charter: "When Mandela first joined the struggle he considered himself an Africanist, skeptical of whether or not Indians and Coloureds “could truly embrace our cause” and was “firmly opposed to allowing Communists or whites to join” the ANC. But through experiences in the struggle, Mandela changed his views and organized to overthrow apartheid by helping to mobilize a mass movement of all those who opposed it.
In 1952 the ANC and the South African Indian Congress launched the Defiance Campaign, the first large-scale, multiracial mobilization against the apartheid laws imposed by the National Party. Mandela was its central organizer. More than 8,000 were thrown in jail.
The new laws were not overturned “but the Defiance Campaign marked a new chapter in the struggle,” Mandela wrote. “Our membership swelled to 100,000. The ANC emerged as a truly mass-based organization with an impressive corps of experienced activists who had braved the police, the courts, and the jails.” In 1954, the ANC together with the Indian Congress, the recently formed South African Coloured Peoples Organization and the Congress of Democrats, made up of white opponents of apartheid, issued a call for a Congress of the People, which met June 25-26, 1955, attended by more than 3,000 delegates. “Although the overwhelming numbers of delegates were black, there were more than three hundred Indians, two hundred Coloureds, and one hundred whites,” Mandela said.
Before the police broke up the gathering, participants approved the Freedom Charter. “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white,” the charter said. It put forward a series of demands. The first four headings were: “The people shall govern! All national groups shall have equal rights! The people shall share in the country’s wealth! The land shall be shared among those who work it!” The charter called for the nationalization of the banks and mines.
The Freedom Charter triggered a sharp debate, including in the ANC itself where a minority, which soon split from the organization, backed the view that “South Africa was for Africans, and no one else” and considered whites and Indians “foreign minority groups.”
In 1962 Mandela was arrested after returning to South Africa from a tour of African countries where he sought financing and military training for the newly formed armed wing of the ANC, Spear of the Nation. The next year Mandela and seven others were convicted on charges of sabotage and conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.
In October 1975 the South African army invaded Angola, hoping to crush the liberation movement against Portuguese rule there, deal a blow to the anti-colonial revolution on the continent and thereby strengthen apartheid rule at home.
At the request of the newly independent Angolan government, thousands of Cuban volunteer combatants went to Angola and in less than six months stopped the South African invasion in its tracks. The myth of the invincibility of the apartheid regime was punctured."
*quoted from the December 23 newsweekly with the views of Pathfinder press. Subscriptions to this newsweekly can be had by writing to Pathfinder Press/SWP, 306 W. 37th St. 10th Floor, New York, NY 10018
12/13/2013
11/30/2013
Shati' Tea and Falafel Shop, Gaza (Poetry: The Iliad at Tufts University, Mssachusetts)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+1.1&redirect=true
"The Perseus Project, Tufts University" has the Iliad and Odyssey in original Greek and English.
"The Perseus Project, Tufts University" has the Iliad and Odyssey in original Greek and English.
11/09/2013
Au Cafe Liwan, Tariq Al-Khamis, Jubail al Sina'iyya
Quelqu' un d'autre est dans ma chaise
Le retour du Cafe Liwan a Fanatir, en passant par Nakheel Beach et l'Hotel Jubail Intercontinenal:
Le retour du Cafe Liwan a Fanatir, en passant par Nakheel Beach et l'Hotel Jubail Intercontinenal:
11/07/2013
Café de Flore gallantrie et spectacles (entertainment) comment faire pain pour tartines
Recette pour faire du pain a la maison:
Ajourter du leveure a deux verres de farine (1500 grammes),
Ajouter 33 millilitres d'eau tiede.(petite bouteille d'Evian)
Laisse le pain se lever trois heures.
Mettre au four 225 Fahrenhiet pour 25 minutes.
Comme ca:
McNamara ground operations
J'étais an personel de sécurité quelque jours après les attentats du onze sept 2001. Puis quand Northwest nous a mis à pied à cause des efforts de la société d'empêcher notre syndicat d'ouvriers, j'ai fait une demande pour un travail qui payait moins du smig pour être un TWA.
Les TWA sont très mal payés, je sais. Toute cette histoire des TWA est dans les nouvelles ces jours a cause d'un fou a L'os Angeles qui a tué un TWA dans son étrange enragement.
Je pense aux gens de sécurité à Amsterdam Schiphol si poli,...et, quelques unes, si jolies!
11/02/2013
Shati' Tea and Falafel Shop, Gaza "on Learning"
Flore, Fishawi, Shati, McNamara
All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of
Café Flore, Paris; poetry, under that of Fishawi, Jeddah or Cairo; learning under the title of the Shati Tea-and-Falafel-shop, Gaza; foreign and domestic news, you will have from
McNamara Ground Ops Lunchroom, Detroit; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
From a brief glance at the specialties of the professors at Near Eastern Studies departments in the US and England, it would appear that the former emphasis on being "balanced" toward the colonial settler state that took land from the people of Palestine, has created such a tolerance for the Tel Aviv's sectarian view of Judaism that the same sectarianism is applied to the study of the contemporary monotheistic religions of the Near East. One sees more specialists in various aspects of Islam, or Eastern Christianity at Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge, and Oxford than one even sees among the religious elders in the Middle East!
Students graduate from Religious studies at these great universities and then become spokespeople for defending sectarian currents, like the Muslim Bretheren in Egypt, Lybia, and Syria, or the anti-Shi'a stance of several of the Gulf States.
Of course, the defence of such sectarianism is well within the academic canon established by Bernard Lewis, and popularisers like the New York Times' Freidman, who gloated on their ability to converse with kings and princes in the parliamentary regimes of the Middle East with the same equanimity with which they met with the leaders of the colonial settler state(Israel) who had come to power through the application of terror(Dayan, Begin, etc. of the state of Israel).
Edward Said, in his book, Orientalism, predicted that the US-UK view of seeing the East through "orientalist glasses" would eventually be taught right in US-UK universities and go on into the Arab universities of the Middle East. That has happened. We had a Muslim Brethren professor, who rigged his election to president of Egypt, Mohammad Mursi. And we have MBA's in Dubai convincing the City of London that being against interest is something "Islamic" and "Shari'a." So-called Islamic Finance is just an ADOPTION of the hatred of usury that characterised the European early middle ages, not the Arab Eastern middle ages where jews had no such relation with the kings. Jews, like all other religious groups were tolerated and held a variety of professions. The Sultans did not borrow money.
Anyway, that is what we are ranting about today here in Gaza at Shati' Tea and Falafel Shop, which has the best falafel in the Middle East.
From a brief glance at the specialties of the professors at Near Eastern Studies departments in the US and England, it would appear that the former emphasis on being "balanced" toward the colonial settler state that took land from the people of Palestine, has created such a tolerance for the Tel Aviv's sectarian view of Judaism that the same sectarianism is applied to the study of the contemporary monotheistic religions of the Near East. One sees more specialists in various aspects of Islam, or Eastern Christianity at Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge, and Oxford than one even sees among the religious elders in the Middle East!
Students graduate from Religious studies at these great universities and then become spokespeople for defending sectarian currents, like the Muslim Bretheren in Egypt, Lybia, and Syria, or the anti-Shi'a stance of several of the Gulf States.
Of course, the defence of such sectarianism is well within the academic canon established by Bernard Lewis, and popularisers like the New York Times' Freidman, who gloated on their ability to converse with kings and princes in the parliamentary regimes of the Middle East with the same equanimity with which they met with the leaders of the colonial settler state(Israel) who had come to power through the application of terror(Dayan, Begin, etc. of the state of Israel).
Edward Said, in his book, Orientalism, predicted that the US-UK view of seeing the East through "orientalist glasses" would eventually be taught right in US-UK universities and go on into the Arab universities of the Middle East. That has happened. We had a Muslim Brethren professor, who rigged his election to president of Egypt, Mohammad Mursi. And we have MBA's in Dubai convincing the City of London that being against interest is something "Islamic" and "Shari'a." So-called Islamic Finance is just an ADOPTION of the hatred of usury that characterised the European early middle ages, not the Arab Eastern middle ages where jews had no such relation with the kings. Jews, like all other religious groups were tolerated and held a variety of professions. The Sultans did not borrow money.
Anyway, that is what we are ranting about today here in Gaza at Shati' Tea and Falafel Shop, which has the best falafel in the Middle East.
11/01/2013
Al-Fishawi, Al-Balad, Jeddah "How to make Arabic Coffee"
We report gallantry from Cafe de Flore, but since this gallantry is Saudi, we'll report from Fishawi Cafe, in the old part of Jeddah.
Here are notes from Bayouni Arabic Coffee with Cardamom instructions:
8 tablespoons coffee for one liter; that is about one table spoon for .15 millilitres, or half this .33 bottle of Evian:
Now the coffee is ready. I've seen them put the saffron in with the coffee at boiling, but Bayouni's instructions say, "It is better to put the saffron in the boiling water for two minutes BEFORE putting in the coffee. In this way you will economise on saffron and make an excellent coffee."
Finally, pour the coffee from the stainless steel teapot into a nice Saudi curved coffee pot, and, if you like, put a piece of dried palm leaf in the spout to further filter. Here's my Saudi curved coffee pot that I bought back in 2005 from "Ya Balaish" in Faisaliyya quarter in Jeddah.
Here are notes from Bayouni Arabic Coffee with Cardamom instructions:
8 tablespoons coffee for one liter; that is about one table spoon for .15 millilitres, or half this .33 bottle of Evian:
2 tablespoons for the whole of this small bottle of Evian
The coffee should be added while the water in the stainless steel tea pot is boiling, and stirred in.
(if you put saffron in the boiling water before the coffee, you can boil the saffron two minutes before boiling the coffee for two minutes--see the Bayouni note at the end)
Let it boil on low heat for ONLY TWO MINUTES in this steel tea pot:
Finally, pour the coffee from the stainless steel teapot into a nice Saudi curved coffee pot, and, if you like, put a piece of dried palm leaf in the spout to further filter. Here's my Saudi curved coffee pot that I bought back in 2005 from "Ya Balaish" in Faisaliyya quarter in Jeddah.
Pour the coffee into little cups. This is a Turkish coffee cup, but I don't have my little Jordanian-Saudi cups:
10/26/2013
Shati' Tea and Falafel Shop, Gaza
10/15/2013
10/08/2013
De mon appartement From my apartment
Arabic coffee: café moulu yéménite, cardamome, clous de giroflée, safran dans l'eau, bouillir 5 minutes.
10/07/2013
كافيه الفشاوي Fishawi, Cairo
Manifestations hier pour l'anniversaire de la franchissement du canal de Suez par Sadat. Les frères mus, qui ont assassiné Sadat, ont essayé de manifester leur patriotisme maintenant en essayant de casser, ou bien entrer Meidan Tahrir. Mais les anti Morsi les ont empêché: 50 morts.
10/05/2013
McNamara Ground Operations Coffee Machine, Aéroport métropolitain de Detroit (DTW)
All news foreign and domestic shall be from McNamara Ground Ops Lunch Room Coffee Machine.
Friday il y avait des manifestations des Freres Musulmans au Caire, et dans quelques autres villes. Al Jazira TV les a montré en directe. BBC a montré un toute petite nombre de pro-Morsiites qui traversaient le pont pour aller à Maidan Tahrir.
Autre pensee, au sujet du monde méditerranéen au moyen age...réfléchi a ton époque à Gaza, et à son importance comme port de l'encense et, plus tard, du cafe.
Friday il y avait des manifestations des Freres Musulmans au Caire, et dans quelques autres villes. Al Jazira TV les a montré en directe. BBC a montré un toute petite nombre de pro-Morsiites qui traversaient le pont pour aller à Maidan Tahrir.
Autre pensee, au sujet du monde méditerranéen au moyen age...réfléchi a ton époque à Gaza, et à son importance comme port de l'encense et, plus tard, du cafe.
9/21/2013
Café de Flore, Galanterie (Tamimi Safeway, Jubayl Industrial City)
Flore, Fishawi, Shati, McNamara
All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of
Café Flore, Paris; poetry, under that of Fishawi, Jeddah or Cairo; learning under the title of the Shati Tea-and-Falafel-shop, Gaza; foreign and domestic news, you will have from
McNamara Ground Ops Lunchroom, Detroit; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
قهوة البايوني... طريقة التحضير
اضاف مقدار ٨ ملاعق طعام من القهوة الى لتر واحد
من الماء المقلي
مع التحريك
ثم غليها
على حرارة خفيفة
وتغلي لمدة دقيقتان
قبل إضافة القهوة بهذه الطريقة
سوف تستهلك نسبة زعفران اقل
ولكن كافية
Cafe Bayouni.... Mode d'emploi
Ajouter 8 quilieres de table de cafe a un litre
d'eau bouillante et remuante
puis, laisse bouillir 2 minutes sur feu doux
avant d'ajouter au cafe,fait de cette manière,
un peu, mais assez de safran.
9/20/2013
de mon appartement ...from my apartment
Iliad de Homere de Suliman Bustani. Iliad of Homer translated into Arabic by Suliman Bustani, with his interesting introduction
"What else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment."
Je mange des fruits d'abord, et ne mange que des légumes au repas pour me guérir du fatigue.
Some tiny birds standing on one leg, near my apartment near King Abd Al-Aziz road, El Baz Mosque and the Ventura Compound in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.
The news from my apartment is that I should be reading the Arabic translation of the Iliad, instead of watching BBC tv.
Flore, Fishawi, Shati, McNamara
All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of
Café Flore, Paris; poetry, under that of Fishawi, Jeddah or Cairo; learning under the title of the Shati Tea-and-Falafel-shop, Gaza; foreign and domestic news, you will have from
McNamara Ground Ops Lunchroom, Detroit; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
9/18/2013
9/16/2013
Al-Shati' Tea and Falafel Ship, Gaza
Shati' Tea and Falafel Shop, Beach Refugee Camp, Gaza, est un peu au sud de Zikim Beach Hof Ashkelon (sur Google Earth). L'israélien, Mordecai Vanunu, qui a publie les détails de la bombe nucléaire de Dimona, la force de frappe d'Israel, a eu l'honneur d'être en prison dans le prison triage des jeunes palestiniens de Gaza ou ils sont incarcérée avant d'être transférés aux "oubliettes" de Rafah.
Nouveau livre vient d'être publiée aujourd'hui sur les fouilles importants de Flinders Petrie a Gaza dans les années 1800!!
C'est Flinders Petrie qui a vraiment fondee la science d'archéologie par couches datées par les scarabées avec leur cartouches royales. Les résultats de ses fouilles a Gaza ont été rééditée par Cambridge.
En bas la description de l'importance de ces fouilles, sur le site de Blackwell's Bookshop, en anglais.
Nouveau livre vient d'être publiée aujourd'hui sur les fouilles importants de Flinders Petrie a Gaza dans les années 1800!!
C'est Flinders Petrie qui a vraiment fondee la science d'archéologie par couches datées par les scarabées avec leur cartouches royales. Les résultats de ses fouilles a Gaza ont été rééditée par Cambridge.
En bas la description de l'importance de ces fouilles, sur le site de Blackwell's Bookshop, en anglais.
Ancient Gaza Volume 1
Published 1931-4, these four
excavation reports, reissued here in two volumes, cover the fruitful
archaeological work at Tell el-Ajjul.
(Tel el-Ajjul est a 30 minutes de marche a pied de la ville de Gaza, un peu au sud des orangers palestiniens autour de l'ancien 1984 kibbuz de Netzarim quand les colons et soldats israéliens étaient la dans la bande de Gaza jusqu'a 2005. Voire Google Earth 31' 28,6541 N 34' 24,0801 E altitude 14,917 ft)
cf. also, Tel el-Far'a, north of Nablus 32, 17,2259 N 35' 20,2540 E
cf. also, Tel el-Far'a, north of Nablus 32, 17,2259 N 35' 20,2540 E
A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir
William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and
trained a generation of archaeologists. Now reissued in two volumes are the
four excavation reports, published between 1931 and 1934, covering his
extensive dig at Tell el-Ajjul in Palestine. The reports scrupulously record
the finds of artefacts dating from the Copper Age and extending to the Hyksos
period. Descriptions of the working party's struggles against malaria and the
elements highlight Petrie's devotion to his work. Volume 1 combines the first
two reports, first published in 1931 and 1932, and includes descriptions of
various cemeteries, tombs, palaces and horse burials. Each report features a
section of photographs and sketches of tombs, pottery, weapons and jewellery.
Petrie wrote prolifically throughout his long career, and a great many of his
Egyptological publications - for both specialists and non-specialists - are
also reissued in this series.
Photos: Beach Refugee Camp, Gaza
Photos: Beach Refugee Camp, Gaza
Labelled Labyrinthine Street in Beach Refugee Camp, Gaza (photo by Harry Fear on Google Earth, panoramio)
9/15/2013
Café Liwan, Huwailaat Golfe Persique et Méditerranée
Ici, j'ai appris que le safran du café arabe vient de l'Iran.
9/05/2013
McNamare Ground Ops Coffee Machine
Toute nouvelle étrangère ou locale viendra ce cafe and l'aérodrome de Detroit, maintenant desservie
non par Northwest, mais par Delta, partenaire toujours de KLM.
J'ai trop sommeil apres le vol de Detroit a Amsterdam pour penser, mais mes pensees sont avec l'Iran, tellement mis en cause par le gouvernement USA, France, et Angleterre. On dira que le vouloir des etats unis a
non par Northwest, mais par Delta, partenaire toujours de KLM.
J'ai trop sommeil apres le vol de Detroit a Amsterdam pour penser, mais mes pensees sont avec l'Iran, tellement mis en cause par le gouvernement USA, France, et Angleterre. On dira que le vouloir des etats unis a
8/18/2013
Café de Flore - BBC Arabic élégance et galantrie Egypte contre les pro-Morsi
photo-vue depuis la terasse du Flore, Brasserie Lipp en face
Video de la vue du TGV
8/17/2013
From my apartment
All other comments shall be from my apartment...after a pleasant drive to the KLM office near the Meridien Hotel and back, I listened to the balanced coverage of the events in Cairo on BBC and CNN. They give too much credence to the Muslim Brotherhood, who have set about attacking government buildings and continuing to get themselves killed instead of reconciling themselves with the exiting times advancing the role of the Egyptian people finding space in politics that was heralded in by the huge, 19 million demonstrations of June 30.
Here is the not so surprising defense of the bad, rather violent and provocative protests the Muslim Brotherhood misguides (and hence sacrifices its followers) into, given by Oxford professor Tariq Ramadan on the BBC TV news tonight Click here Since this is private on Sound Cloud, I'll just summarize some of the craziness of his argument, which is also typical of the Muslim Brotherhood spokesmen, and most current orientalist scholarship, which is quite openly serious about religion, and still tied into the study of the collapse of the caliphate with the rise of the colonial revolutions. I believe that the Muslim Bretheren want the return of the authentic caliphate, which makes them, as a consequence, serious study for academics interested in "The Sleeping Giant," which was the Ottoman Empire before and after World War 1. Anyway, Tariq Ramadan gives the typical complaint about the breakup of the peaceful sit-ins, and chastises Obama for not cutting off military aid to such a country that is "not part of our democratic tradition," with this military "coup." It is exactly what the spokespeople for the Muslim Bretheren are saying.
8/16/2013
McNamara Ground Ops Coffee Machine -- improved in Amsterdam
Next to the Mediterranean Sandwich Bar is "le Grand Cafe," picture below:
Here is a little "MOV" of what it is like to be in the KLM City Hopper from Nice to Amsterdam, leaving at 6:25:
Fishawi, Cairo Poetry
Flore, Fishawi, Shati, McNamara
All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of
Café Flore, Paris; poetry, under that of Fishawi, Jeddah or Cairo; learning under the title of the Shati Tea-and-Falafel-shop, Gaza; foreign and domestic news, you will have from
McNamara Ground Ops Lunchroom, Detroit; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
The western commentators and hard line Islamicists can't see the poetry of the dismantling of the Rab'a Al-Adawiyya Mosque sit-in,
Poetic justice. Fishawi is closed under curfew tonight, but, then, the evenings in Hussein were as wonderful as usual this Ramadan, I'm sure.
8/09/2013
Café de flore, Café St. Germain, Paris
Café crème, tartine 6 euros 90
8/07/2013
Uni Cafe, SprachLehrinsitut
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg. Near this nice little cafe, always full of people in the summer, is the "UniMuseum," where I learned that Freiburg Univ. was found in 1457, run by Jesuits, then played a role in the Enlightenment under Maria Theresa and Joseph II. It opened to women a bit before WW II. Heidigger was president, and Hannah Arendt, as well as many Nobel laureate were there. The SprachLerninstitut helps teach languages. They use an Amer. Univ. in Cairo book for Arabic.
Must find out about this French play about women, flowers? and the Quran, by a certain Schmidt.
Must find out about this French play about women, flowers? and the Quran, by a certain Schmidt.
McNamara Ground Ops Coffee machine- vigilantiism
A little bit of American history to understand the outrage over the Zimmerman Aquittal.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution outlawed slavery, made it the law of the land that all men could vote, and granted power to the federal government to take action against Ku Klux Klanners and other vigilante thugs who employed lynchings and mob violence against the social progress of Radical Reconstruction. Anti-vigilante laws were adopted in many areas of the country. The abolitionists and their allies who dominated the Congress sent federal troops to the South to defend freed Blacks and their allies.
1877 withdrawal of Federal troops and the end of 40 acres and a mule (Radical Reconstruction)
But with the 1877 withdrawal of federal troops from the South and other counterrevolutionary moves by the Northern rulers, the reactionary forces were given free rein and were ultimately successful in dealing the greatest blows ever inflicted on the working class in the U.S., a body blow that included the imposition of Jim Crow segregation.
Supreme court overturns 1876 New Orleans court conviction of 100 Colfax, Louisiana vigilantes
In 1873 some 150 heavily armed vigilantes attacked and murdered an equal number of out-gunned African-Americans, many members of the city’s militia, who were defending the county courthouse in Colfax, La. The U.S. Attorney in New Orleans indicted nearly 100 of the attackers under the enforcement provisions of the 14th Amendment, affording equal protection of the laws to all. When the case reached the Supreme Court, the justices unanimously overturned the convictions in 1876, ruling the amendment only applied to actions carried out by state governments. This notorious ruling — still the law of the land — was a milestone blow to the fight against vigilantism and racist violence.
facts quoted from the Militant
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution outlawed slavery, made it the law of the land that all men could vote, and granted power to the federal government to take action against Ku Klux Klanners and other vigilante thugs who employed lynchings and mob violence against the social progress of Radical Reconstruction. Anti-vigilante laws were adopted in many areas of the country. The abolitionists and their allies who dominated the Congress sent federal troops to the South to defend freed Blacks and their allies.
1877 withdrawal of Federal troops and the end of 40 acres and a mule (Radical Reconstruction)
But with the 1877 withdrawal of federal troops from the South and other counterrevolutionary moves by the Northern rulers, the reactionary forces were given free rein and were ultimately successful in dealing the greatest blows ever inflicted on the working class in the U.S., a body blow that included the imposition of Jim Crow segregation.
Supreme court overturns 1876 New Orleans court conviction of 100 Colfax, Louisiana vigilantes
In 1873 some 150 heavily armed vigilantes attacked and murdered an equal number of out-gunned African-Americans, many members of the city’s militia, who were defending the county courthouse in Colfax, La. The U.S. Attorney in New Orleans indicted nearly 100 of the attackers under the enforcement provisions of the 14th Amendment, affording equal protection of the laws to all. When the case reached the Supreme Court, the justices unanimously overturned the convictions in 1876, ruling the amendment only applied to actions carried out by state governments. This notorious ruling — still the law of the land — was a milestone blow to the fight against vigilantism and racist violence.
facts quoted from the Militant
8/06/2013
Uni Cafe, Freiburg am Briesgau
Pres de cette ancienne université ou Heidigger et Hanna Arandt ont vécu:
Reisenzentrum Bahnhof Café, Freiburg am Breisgau
J'ai envoyé de jolies cartes achetées a Gallimard a Paris, aux 5 Cubanos (maintenant les quatre qui sont toujours en prison) aux USA.
Pensant a l'importance de la traduction faite par Pathfinder des 2 déclarations de Havane en arabe. Il y a des rapporteurs de notre journal préférée qui sont maintenant au Caire.
Je pense aussi a l'importance des chercheur allemands, comme Brockelmann, ici dans cette ville universitaire allemande.
Quelques photos du quartier universitaire dans la ville médiéval:
Pensant a l'importance de la traduction faite par Pathfinder des 2 déclarations de Havane en arabe. Il y a des rapporteurs de notre journal préférée qui sont maintenant au Caire.
Je pense aussi a l'importance des chercheur allemands, comme Brockelmann, ici dans cette ville universitaire allemande.
Quelques photos du quartier universitaire dans la ville médiéval:
8/04/2013
Cafe de Flore, Paris
Au Café de Flore on parle de la banqueroute de la ville de Detroit
Mais que les parisiennes et parisien s'habille avec l'élégance a la mode en été!!
Mais que les parisiennes et parisien s'habille avec l'élégance a la mode en été!!
With Detroit bankruptcy,
rulers target unions (front page)
BY BRIAN WILLIAMS
The city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy July 18 in the largest such municipal filing in U.S. history. The move by Emergency Financial Manager Kevyn Orr — appointed with broad powers by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in March to run Detroit, effectively replacing the city’s elected officials — involves tearing up all city labor contracts and targeting in particular pensions and health care of public workers.
rulers target unions (front page)
BY BRIAN WILLIAMS
The city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy July 18 in the largest such municipal filing in U.S. history. The move by Emergency Financial Manager Kevyn Orr — appointed with broad powers by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in March to run Detroit, effectively replacing the city’s elected officials — involves tearing up all city labor contracts and targeting in particular pensions and health care of public workers.
Of the city’s $18 billion in long-term debt, more than $3.5 billion is owed to the pension fund for 10,000 current employees and 20,000 retirees, along with some $6 billion for retirees’ health care costs. Through bankruptcy proceedings, Orr is seeking to slash funds owed to these workers by more than 90 percent, reported the Wall Street Journal. At the same time, $7 billion in municipal bonds secured by casino profits and utility taxes, held by the propertied rich, are protected.
However, Orr has also threatened to force wealthy general-obligation bondholders — whose $530 million in investments are guaranteed in the state constitution — to take a substantial “haircut.”
Working people in Detroit have been pummeled by the capitalist economic crisis. The official unemployment rate in May was 16.3 percent. The city’s population, currently 700,000, has declined 25 percent since 2000. More than one-third of workers live below the government’s official poverty level, according to the U.S. Census.
The city of Detroit, like all U.S. government bodies, has financed its day-to-day operations through selling municipal bonds. The $3.7 trillion municipal bond market is a prerogative of the very rich. These pieces of paper are guaranteed by the “full faith and credit” of the government agency that issues them.
The fact that Orr threatens to go after some bondholders has evoked a fierce outcry from those who defend the municipal bond market as sacrosanct. Such proposals “would flatten the traditional hierarchy of creditors, putting … a retired librarian on par with an investor holding a general obligation bond,” the New York Times said.
While workers’ benefits are slashed and union contracts torn up by bankruptcy courts, capitalist investors, contractors and others have been preparing to cash in on the backs of the bankruptcy.
Orr and others have made it clear that once the debts are wiped clean and health care, pensions and union contracts gutted, the city will issue new bonds for a round of construction and other projects, promising large profits for those in the know who get in early.
7/31/2013
Fishawi, Cairo
The the pro-2-party democracy west puts the pressure yesterday and today on the Egyptian people to accept the "democracy" slogans of the Muslim Bretheren - sugar-coated, cry-baby Islamists - at face value.
Announcement by ministry of interior
Baradei and Ashton press conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IE76dy-r2Tc
I listened to this video with "Nashwa Hawashi" a muslim anti-morsi activist.
I listened to this video with "Nashwa Hawashi" a muslim anti-morsi activist.
It's very longhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGakXA8NMkc
An announcer on "ONtveg" ridicules Safwat Hijazi, who is, I guess someone who tries to defend the pro-Morsi crowd:
7/29/2013
Shati' Tea and Felafel Shop, Gaza
Flore, Fishawi, Shati, McNamara
All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of
Café Flore, Paris; poetry, under that of Fishawi, Jeddah or Cairo; learning under the title of the Shati Tea-and-Falafel-shop, Gaza; foreign and domestic news, you will have from
McNamara Ground Ops Lunchroom, Detroit; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
Vue de Shati' Camp de refugies d'al-Majdal, Gaza
7/27/2013
McNamara Ground Ops Coffee Machine, Detroit
Today is the day the Muslim brotherhood started their chaotic protest against General Sisi's call-out for the big anti-Morsi demonstration the day and night before. Their 4am march toward a military base, which I think was a provocation, was met with tear gas and rubber bullets. I find it impossible to believe that the police shot at them. I think more likely it was a rival faction within the Muslim Brotherhood.
Today in Egypt it is NOT, NOT like when the National Guard from Taylor, near here, marched into Detroit with armor and guns. But it is sort of a 46 year anniversary of the July 23 police riot tonight. What a difference with Egypt, where the Western media can't understand a Military officer calling for a massive demonstration. They get so worried about it that they hold off sales of Phantom jets for a while.
The next morning, the 28th of July, I remembered the name of the spokeswoman for the Muslim Brotherhood on BBC TV: Mona Qazzaz The western commentators aren't much more conscious of the facts. But they're very good at rhetoric.
The next morning, the 28th of July, I remembered the name of the spokeswoman for the Muslim Brotherhood on BBC TV: Mona Qazzaz The western commentators aren't much more conscious of the facts. But they're very good at rhetoric.
7/26/2013
Fishawi, le Caire "Awdet Ar-Ruh" Retour de l'Esprit (titre d'un roman de Tawfiq Al-Hakim)
En pensant aux événements au Caire, pendant le Ramadan, me voici a un drôle de restaurant américain dans la partie moderne de Jubayl. Je commençais a parler de cet étrange épisode ou les universités américaines se spécialisent dans les sectes de l'islam. J'espère que la reprise du débat en Egypte sur la sécularisation va mettre cette épisode de théocratie (fondement de l'état juive, et réponses des Frères Musulmans, et autres, au faux gauchisme de la lutte anti-colonial) dans le passé lointain, maintenant que l'Egypte essaie de se mobiliser pour un retour de l'esprit..."audet ar-ruh"عودة الروح
Friday July 26, 12 noon YouTube video from Nile TV "Panorama" showing arrival of demonstrators in Isma'iliyya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kommzo3Poig
Friday July 26, 12 noon YouTube video from Nile TV "Panorama" showing arrival of demonstrators in Isma'iliyya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kommzo3Poig
7/24/2013
Fishawi, Jeddah: Teaching Arabic
Flore, Fishawi, Shati, McNamara
All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of
Café Flore, Paris; poetry, under that of Fishawi, Jeddah or Cairo; learning under the title of the Shati Tea-and-Falafel-shop, Gaza; foreign and domestic news, you will have from
McNamara Ground Ops Lunchroom, Detroit; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
Actually this painting is probably of the fishermen with their dhows here in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, not on the Jeddah Side, where Fishawi Coffee Shop in Maidan Al-Bai'a is.
The connection with learning is with the "Poetry House," in Bahrain, the restored house of the Bahraini poet Ibrahim Al-Arrayyed. He corresponded with the poets of the Nahda, and I was reminded of my original interest in the writers of this period in Arabic, Tawfiq Al-Hakim, Taha Hussein, Fadwa Touqan, May Ziadeh, Mikha'il Nu'aimi, whom I read at Shemlan. Thinking of these, I made the "Philosophy of Teaching" essay below:
Philosophy of Teaching,
From my perception as a long-time
tourist-archaeologist in the Arabic-speaking countries, I see Arabic literature
and art as being a continuation and elaboration of the humanist tradition of
the Greeks and Romans, with a dash of Iranian and African spice.
I believe that in teaching Arabic, it is
important to make frequent references to the important transmission and
elaboration of the discoveries of the Greeks to the universities and the
merchant class of the 12th century and onwards in Europe, and (Ben
Franklin’s) America. In France, and, I
believe, in England and Italy, too; students learned Arabic from anthologies of
great pieces of Arabic writing, just as my third year Arabic teacher, Andras Hamori at Princeton shared his doctoral
work with us. I remember he simply
photocopied the Amr Al-Qais poem we studied from Chrestomathie Arabe,
the University of Paris Sorbonne Arabic anthology, which even included the
proclamations in Arabic, written by Paris scholars, for Napoleon’s 1798 campaign
in Egypt.
Thus, even in beginning Arabic classes,
with the modern, “communicative style” textbooks, I like to supplement these
texts with some things the students could read seriously, translating word for
word, and think about: passages from Matta
bin Younis’ 9th century Arabic translation of Aristotle’s Poetics,
for example, or the from Mas’oudi’s 10th century history(al-Murug
al-Dhahab) where he mentions the pre-Socratics of Miletus.
Universal “humanist” Arabic writing, even
as simple quotations--for example, a phrase from Soliman Bustani’s 19th
century translation of the Iliad, from the Arabic original of Burton’s Arabian
Nights translation, or from a play or poem by the Levantine and African
writers of the 1930’s through 70’s “Nahda,” (Renaissance)--makes the Arabic
class not just an exoticism, but a basis for the student and teacher to
familiarize themselves with humanist thought in general.
As a refreshing, almost comic relief, I
delight in teaching “getting-around-the-town,” or colloquial Arabic, as an
important way of absorbing, and actually using classical Arabic vocabulary. I am able to add my experience in Egyptian,
Lebanese, and Saudi colloquial to teaching the colloquial in tandem with the
classical Arabic. In the colloquial, too,
there is a rich humanist tradition on which I can tap as a teacher: Bairam Al-Tunisisi’s poems in colloquial,
Tawfiq al-Hakim’s and Ghassan Kanafani’s “colloquial in quotes,” and
“classical-with-a-Palestinian-colloquial rhythm,” for example.
On the more specifics of minute by minute
teaching, I have a whole panoply of English-Arabic grammar comparisons, whiteboard
talk and tape-recorder listening-speaking teaching methods developed from my
years of teaching English to Arabs.
Learning a foreign language is always a way of improving one’s own
language, and my experience in explaining English nuances to Arabic speakers
puts me in a good position to make studying Arabic a source of better understanding
and use of one’s own language.
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