8/27/2014
Shati' Tea and Falafel, Gaza
Culture des grands orientalistes effacées par les profs commeJuan Cole, trop amoureux des "federalist papers" et les pères fondateur de la petite colonie independante qu'est les EU. Voir revue de son livre dans le monde des livres jeudi 21
4/24/2014
Cafe de Flore, Paris
au sujet de la Galanterie,
On dois être un peu plus léger, la légèreté de la vie
3/15/2014
Shati' Tea and Falafel Shop, Gaza...poesie arabe
Now that we can no longer visit the arcaeological sites of the Middle East because of the sectarian conflicts generated by the US war on Iraq, we must turn to the study of the great classics of Arabic literature, as studied by the 19th century German, French and British scholars like Brockelman, Hans Wehr, Sylvestre de Sacy, and the incredible German whose indexing of the Hadith literature is unparalled and still used today.
Maintenant qu'on ne peux plus visiter les sites archeologiques du Moyen Orient, a cause des gueres entre sectes qui avaient ete cause par la geurre americaine en Iraq, nous devons retourner a l'etude des grands classiques de la litterature arabe, comme ils avaient ete etudie par les chercheurs allemands, francais, et anglais comme Brockleman, Hans Wehr, Sylvestre de Sacy, et cet allemand incroyable dont son "index" de la litterature des Hadith est incomparable et toujours servie de nos jours aujourd'hui
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.
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