Arabic translation below… ????? ?????? ??????? ??? ???? ?????????? Dear George, Congratulations. Mabrook. You’re marrying Amal Alamuddin, an international award-winning barrister (for us Americans, “barrister” means lawyer, but I wrote “barrister” because it just sounds so much cooler). And on top of that, she is one of us. You hit the jackpot. CNN has called […]
Month: April 2014
Jesus the Palestinian
I’m not a religious guy. I might talk about Jesus in a different way that priests, ministers, and popes do. I do not see him as the divine incarnate, and I’m not completely sure he saw himself that way either. But I do share one thing with my more religious friends. Jesus still lives for […]
Are Chaldeans Arabs too? I hope so!
Before I moved to Ann Arbor in 1995, I had never met a Chaldean. Ok, in truth, I had never heard of a Chaldean. But as a freshman at the University of Michigan, and in no small part due to my curiosity and blind (and sometimes misguided) love for my fellow Arabs, I came to […]
Can’t we be “disturbed” like everyone else?
Last week’s shooting at Fort Hood was horrific. Army Specialist Ivan Lopez murdered 3, wounded 16, and then he turned the gun on himself after being confronted by a military officer. But this was not just any American mass shooting. This was a shooting a military base. And it was not just any military base. […]