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Tehran Bureau: Everybody has heard about Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the recent Walt Disney blockbuster featuring Jake Gyllenhaal in the role of…a prince of Persia. That a rather fair actor with Swedish and Ashkenazi heritage plays the lead role in a story set in ancient Iran caused a minor controversy. Some enlightened [...]

The Guardian – Excerpt: Anger towards Lebanon is brewing in Sudan and in Sudanese online forums. According to reports in the Arab media, a fundraising party held by Sudanese immigrants and asylum seekers in Beirut in aid of a child with cancer, was raided by Lebanese security apparently on the hunt for illegal residents. Eyewitnesses [...]

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His only crime was that he was an Arab man who slept with a Jewish woman… if this is the only “democracy in the Middle East” then the Middle East has extremely low standards – Haaretz:  An Arab resident of Jerusalem who had consensual sex with a woman who believed him to be Jewish, was [...]

Just another reason why al-Jazeera is awesome.

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BBC: “As a Jew, I was ashamed at the scenes of Jews opening fire at innocent Arabs in Hebron. There is no other definition than the term ‘pogrom’ to describe what I have seen,” he told Cabinet members, according to public radio. [He's absolutely right, but don't you just love how politicians who are leaving [...]

NY Times: Representative Rahm Emanuel, left, President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff, called the president of an Arab-American group today to apologize for comments his father made to an Israeli newspaper. In the remarks, Benjamin Emanuel discussed the potential impact of his son’s new position on U.S.-Israeli relations. “Obviously he’ll influence the president to be [...]

“Muslim” shouldn’t be a slur Both McCain and Obama should condemn implicit attacks on Muslims and Arabs. By Constance L. Rice October 15, 2008 LA Times Excuse me, but when did the words “Muslim” and “Arab” become acceptable epithets? I’m not a Muslim, and perhaps I was slow to see this coming. Four months ago, [...]