April 2006

The Archives

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  khaled

  04.30.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  A muslim Dr. Phil.

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  Haymarket

  04.30.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  On May 4, 1886, a bomb went off in Chicago…

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  Shahnameh

  04.29.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Reza Aslan, on the Book of Kings, in the NYT.

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  Snaps

  04.27.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  12 Postcards for Muharram by Amir Normandi.

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  kaavya

  04.26.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Kaavya Viswanathan was brainwashed … by a bunch of Pakistanis hell-bent on subverting India‚Äôs credibility in the burgeoning Southeast Asian chick-lit genre. I am evil.

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  How to Fight Loneliness

  04.26.06 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Apologies for the lack of postings. It has been a busy couple of weeks. This past weekend, a conference that took a year of planning and execution took place. Sacred Cows & False Prophets: Traversing History and Religion in South Asia or as I called it, Ronapalooza. My idea was to do a simple festschrift [...]

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  Edna

  04.25.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Dame Edna of Pakistan. Those medieval Pakistanis…

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  pottery

  04.24.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Best Pottery Place; and I WILL be a clay-artist there!

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  Mother, Will they drop the Bomb?

  04.24.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Nuclear Bunker Busters will Bust Nothing… fuck.

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  Nepal

  04.23.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  A New Nepal is Possible. [thx Saurav]

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  YAY!

  04.20.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Congratulations! and best wishes to Sumana and Leonard.

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  Yahoo! Jail

  04.20.06 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Hu Jintao is in the WH today. Talking about $ and ¥, I am sure. Anyone else bored with pointing out that our God-Given Freedom with a capital F and Democracy with a capital D is not oppressed solely in Iran or Syria? I am not.
  Today, Reporters sans frontières revealed that Yahoo! collaborated with [...]

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  Doyle

  04.20.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  When I grow up…that’s who I wanna be.

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  eck

  04.19.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Best opportunity ever … to ask, “What did you do to Iraq? and Why?”

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  Census Map

  04.19.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Muslims in America, 2000. Who are the HR for those 2.2-10.6 counties?