Posted in fashion, immigration, children on Jan 25th, 2008
In middle school, people called me “Boooudha Booudha,” “Sand nigger,” “Apu,” “Towel head.” And now, as if some magical carpet sprinkled tandoori dust and sumac over America’s strip malls, all of a sudden, it’s cool to be brown.
Urban Outfitters is on board. They’re carrying head scarves. Comedy Central is all over it. They’re recruiting Arab […]
There are, by whatever strokes of geopolitical fortune, places where political markers place very little ink on every-day life.
And then there is Pakistan. Where one signature?inked in the obscured hours on Saturday night by a military man who?s been ?rescuing? his country for 8 years?at once dissolved the high courts, repealed Gutenberg?s contributions to Pakistani […]
Right in the middle of a boundless game of tug-of-war over the holy and fertile valley of Abra– no, wait, Ibrahim– a new contestant has joined the foray. Step aside Hizbollah, move over Hamas, there’s some new kids in on the block. And, like they always have, they brought their Stress Test kits and […]
Posted in children on Aug 14th, 2007
Old Joe Camel lived about 10 years. In the illustrious decade between 1987 and 1997, the smooth, two-humped hotshot blew smoke rings at hop-scotchers and winked at shy adolescent girls with the candor of sheer marketing genius. Of course, Joey Blowey (as he was affectionately known to all his smoke-toking preschool fans) eventually suffered the […]
Posted in children, Iran, Free Speech on Aug 6th, 2007
Last week, over 200 Iranian youth were detained for attending a concert that featured Western influenced artists. Rap was bumpin’ and mosh pits were jumpin’. There was booze. 150 bottles of it. There were women, too. And they were dancing. With boys. Mixing with mixers.
All of this constituted as immoral behavior, in violation of Sharia […]
Posted in children, Iran, Free Speech on Jul 17th, 2007
The head Honcho, the big Nacho Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a new message for his young martyrs.
He’s told them the nation is in crisis. The war between the hegemonic and the subversive is changing. And he’s not promising heaven or eternal peace on a swollen cloud cushioned by several soft and voluptuousness virgins.
The country’s […]
Call it the brown in me, but something happens to my heart when I’m encouraged to light a fuse and blow something up.
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