“Empires wax and wane, states coalesce and cleave asunder.”
- The Romance of the Three Empires
What a bleeding heart barrel of laughs is “Why, the Beloved Country?” by James Kirchick, lamenting the fact that South Africa has not turned out to be the kind of human rights activist state he and so many other Western liberals [...]
Archive for July 30th, 2007
The South African Policy
Posted in Africa, Non-Allied, Third World, history on 30 July, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Lisanu al-dadi yajm`una
Posted in Arabs, Syria, poetry on 30 July, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lisanu al-dadi yajm`unabiladu al-urbi awtani, minal-shami li-baghdaniwa-min najdin ila yamanin, ila misra fa-tatwanifa-la haddun yuba`iduna wa-la khulfun yufarriqunayajma`una, bi-qahtanin wa-`adnani
– Fakhri al-Barudi