11 July 2007

Stories from 11 July 2007

Iran:Arabs in Iran

In View from Iran, we read:”The Arabs I met in Iran also seemed to find Iranian culture foreign and odd. “This is not an Islamic country,” they would tell me....

11 July 2007

Kuwait: Dead Fish

Texan in Kuwait complains that her daughter returned home after spending time on the beach with her nanny with a dead fish in her hand.

11 July 2007

Algeria: Mistrusting Muslims

The Moor Next Door, an Algerian American, comments on an article which appeared in the LA Times on mistrusting Muslims in the wake of the foiled UK bombings.

11 July 2007

Trinidad & Tobago: Political Alliance

Keith in Trinidad toys with the idea of titling his post “Lost Credibility Day”, while Club Soda and Salt thinks that the newly-announced political alliance among several “irrelevant” parties is...

11 July 2007

Jamaica: Rock On

“Critics seem to want to believe that rock and roll emerged fully formed from the start, but not if that means black people did it. Not if that song is...

11 July 2007

Jamaica: Crystal Rain

“Amnesia as a metaphor for cultural and historic rootlessness has been widely used in Caribbean writing and it informs the writing of Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite.” Geoffrey Philp reviews...

11 July 2007

Belize: Customer Service

“Before we came to live in Belize, many people here warned us that dealing with officials and businesses could be very frustrating and slow.” Exploring Belize Continues discovers that customer...

11 July 2007