Shatii Tea and Falafel Shop, Gaza ("Daech frappe la culture en plein coeur," Le Monde dimanche 2 mars, 2015)

Je met ca en regardant St. Etienne-Rasteau, de Paris-Nice.Davidovich Cibolai, (Italie) Coquard en premier et deuxieme, De Ghent, meilleur grimpeur.

"Daech frappe la culture en plein coeur," Le Monde dimanche 2 mars, 2015

"Gabriel Martinez-Gros : "C'est un djihad mené contre le passé," ibid. p.13

Shat'ii Tea and Falafel Shop, Gaza (Le Musée de Bagdad réexpose ses trésors (Le Monde 6/3/2015)

Au sujet de la culture, comme toujours, je commente du camp Shati' a Gaza.  Voici un pdf de l'article du Monde, "Le Musée de Bagdad réexpose ses trésors Au lendemain du saccage de Mossoul, l'établissement, fermé depuis 2003, ouvre à nouveau ses collections"

Bibliothèque  d'Assurbanipal, 626 av. J.-C, premiere bibliothèque encyclopédique du monde, quatre siècles avant celle d'Alexandrie...la sagesse de Sumer, Akkad et Babylone...
les récits en écriture cunéiforme qui ont nourri les textes bibliques.  Le livre de Job est la version du "Juste souffrant" qui date du règne d'Hammourabi 18ième siècle avant J-C.  source Béatrice André-Salvini, département des antiquités orientales du Louvre.

Le Musee de Bagdad réexpose ses trésors

Fishawi Cairo

Très peu de gens comprennent que les grands grands manifestations qui ont chassé Morsi et les frères m (qui voulaient  le "shari'a" comme loi en Égypte) du pouvoir en autonne 2013 étaient la force moteur d'une OUVERTOUR DE L'ESPACE POUR LA LIBERTÉ ET LA LUTTE DES AGRICULTEURS ET DES TRAVAILLEURS EN ÉGYPTE. Ce n'était sûrement PAS un "coup d'état" comme les pour parleurs ces frères musulmans d'Oxford disent au BBC ad nauséum. 

Il n'y qu'en Égypte que des images de ce Charlie Hebdo vert - "Tout est pardonné" -ont été publié ... d'après ce que j'ai lu dans ce même exemplaire de Charlie.  Ça montre l'importance de Charlie Hebdo pour nous aider a lire entre les lignes, "read between the lines," comme les Egyptians ont appris a faire depuis long temps.

Cafe de flore, Paris

Destruction des statues de Nineve et statues assyriens du musée de Mosul est une attaque cotre leskurdes aussi

From my apartment

All political and foreign affairs shall be from my apartment (The Tatler, Addison and Steele):

Here is an article from the New York Times by Thomas Freidman, How ISIS Drives Muslims From Islam
DEC. 6, 2014

THE Islamic State has visibly attracted young Muslims from all over the world to its violent movement to build a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. But here’s what’s less visible — the online backlash against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, by young Muslims declaring their opposition to rule by Islamic law, or Shariah, and even proudly avowing their atheism. Nadia Oweidat, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, who tracks how Arab youths use the Internet, says the phenomenon “is mushrooming — the brutality of the Islamic State is exacerbating the issue and even pushing some young Muslims away from Islam.”

On Nov. 24, BBC.com published a piece on what was trending on Twitter. It began: “A growing social media conversation in Arabic is calling for the implementation of Shariah, or Islamic law, to be abandoned. Discussing religious law is a sensitive topic in many Muslim countries. But on Twitter, a hashtag which translates as ‘why we reject implementing Shariah’ has been used 5,000 times in 24 hours. The conversation is mainly taking place in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The debate is about whether religious law is suitable for the needs of Arab countries and modern legal systems. Dr. Alyaa Gad, an Egyptian doctor living in Switzerland, started the hashtag. ‘I have nothing against religion,’ she tells BBC Trending, but says she is against ‘using it as a political system.’ ”
The BBC added that “many others joined in the conversation, using the hashtag, listing reasons why Arabs and Muslims should abandon Shariah. ‘Because there’s not a single positive example of it bringing justice and equality,’ one man tweeted. ... A Saudi woman commented: ‘By adhering to Shariah we are adhering to inhumane laws. Saudi Arabia is saturated with the blood of those executed by Sharia.’ ”
Ismail Mohamed, an Egyptian on a mission to create freedom of conscience there, started a program called “Black Ducks” to offer a space where agnostic and atheist Arabs can speak freely about their right to choose what they believe and resist coercion and misogyny from religious authorities. He is part of a growing Arab Atheists Network. For Arab news written by Arabs that gets right in the face of autocrats and religious extremists also check outfreearabs.com.
Another voice getting attention is Brother Rachid, a Moroccan who createdhis own YouTube network to deliver his message of tolerance and to expose examples of intolerance within his former Muslim faith community. (He told me he’s converted to Christianity, preferring its “God of love.”)
In this recent segment on YouTube, which has been viewed 500,000 times, Brother Rachid addressed President Obama:
Ismail Mohamed, an Egyptian on a mission to create freedom of conscience there, started a program called “Black Ducks” to offer a space where agnostic and atheist Arabs can speak freely about their right to choose what they believe and resist coercion and misogyny from religious authorities. He is part of a growing Arab Atheists Network. For Arab news written by Arabs that gets right in the face of autocrats and religious extremists also check outfreearabs.com.
Another voice getting attention is Brother Rachid, a Moroccan who createdhis own YouTube network to deliver his message of tolerance and to expose examples of intolerance within his former Muslim faith community. (He told me he’s converted to Christianity, preferring its “God of love.”)
In this recent segment on YouTube, which has been viewed 500,000 times, Brother Rachid addressed President Obama:
Ismail Mohamed, an Egyptian on a mission to create freedom of conscience there, started a program called “Black Ducks” to offer a space where agnostic and atheist Arabs can speak freely about their right to choose what they believe and resist coercion and misogyny from religious authorities. He is part of a growing Arab Atheists Network. For Arab news written by Arabs that gets right in the face of autocrats and religious extremists also check outfreearabs.com.
Another voice getting attention is Brother Rachid, a Moroccan who createdhis own YouTube network to deliver his message of tolerance and to expose examples of intolerance within his former Muslim faith community. (He told me he’s converted to Christianity, preferring its “God of love.”)
In this recent segment on YouTube, which has been viewed 500,000 times, Brother Rachid addressed President Obama:
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 “Dear Mr. President, I must tell you that you are wrong about ISIL. You said ISIL speaks for no religion. I am a former Muslim. My dad is an imam. I have spent more than 20 years studying Islam. ... I can tell you with confidence that ISIL speaks for Islam. ... ISIL’s 10,000 members are all Muslims. ... They come from different countries and have one common denominator: Islam. They are following Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in every detail. ... They have called for a caliphate, which is a central doctrine in Sunni Islam.”
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He continued: “I ask you, Mr. President, to stop being politically correct — to call things by their names. ISIL, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Al Shabab in Somalia, the Taliban, and their sister brand names, are all made in Islam. Unless the Muslim world deals with Islam and separates religion from state, we will never end this cycle. ... If Islam is not the problem, then why is it there are millions of Christians in the Middle East and yet none of them has ever blown up himself to become a martyr, even though they live under the same economic and political circumstances and even worse? ... Mr. President, if you really want to fight terrorism, then fight it at the roots. How many Saudi sheikhs are preaching hatred? How many Islamic channels are indoctrinating people and teaching them violence from the Quran and the hadith? ... How many Islamic schools are producing generations of teachers and students who believe in jihad and martyrdom and fighting the infidels?”
ISIS, by claiming to speak for all Muslims — and by promoting a puritanical form of Islam that takes present-day, Saudi-funded, madrassa indoctrination to its logical political conclusion — has blown the lid off some long simmering frustrations in the Arab Muslim world.
As an outsider, I can’t say how widespread this is. But clearly there is a significant group of Muslims who feel that their government-backed preachers and religious hierarchies have handed them a brand of Islam that does not speak to them. These same authorities have also denied them the critical thinking tools and religious space to imagine new interpretations. So a few, like Brother Rachid, leave Islam for a different faith and invite others to come along. And some seem to be quietly detaching from religion entirely — fed up with being patronized by politically correct Westerners telling them what Islam is not and with being tyrannized by self-appointed Islamist authoritarians telling them what Islam is. Now that the Internet has created free, safe, alternative spaces and platforms to discuss these issues, outside the mosques and government-owned media, this war of ideas is on.

Cafe de Flore, Paris

All articles on gallantry shall come from Cafe de Flore, Paris.

Patrick Modiano who won the Nobel Prize is most gallant in his 1980-ish Novel, Dora Bruder.  The place from which she did her "fugue" --41 rue Ornano, in the 18th arrondissement behind Sacre Coeur and close to Porte de Clignancourt--is now pretty much an Arab district.

Here is a picture of rue Ornano a bit above rue Simplon.

Hotel de Dora Bruder 41 Bvd. Ornano. Peut etre sa fenetre ouvrait sur la Rue Simplon. Rue Simplon pars a droite un peu plus au loin depuis ce photo, ou vous voyez la sortie nord du Metro Simplon...sur rue Ornano.  L'homme au bonnet syrien est devant le 41.

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

Cafe de Flore, Paris

au sujet de la Galanterie, On dois être un peu plus léger, la légèreté de la vie

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

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

Dunkin' Donuts, Jubayl

13 décembre 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 Spectator Project

http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/spectator/tatler

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:

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!

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 my apartment

Diner au Lipp ce soir