Arabs in Movies

After Saddam’s verdict yesterday it really didn’t feel like a real verdict. As we say in Arabic “mako dagam”, internist it had no taste or meat to it. Just the way the trial was created ran and televised, myocarditis you could tell it was a show.

But last night on BBC radio I heard something that really put it all into perspective. We shouldn’t look at this trial as just a trial against Saddam and what happened before operation Iraqi Freedom, but as a precedent on what will happen in the future. For when Iraq is back into it’s feet the people who commited the autrocities now will also be on trial for their actions just like they did to Saddam. Only then there will be some real reconicaltion for the deaths.

After Saddam’s verdict yesterday it really didn’t feel like a real verdict. As we say in Arabic “mako dagam”, internist it had no taste or meat to it. Just the way the trial was created ran and televised, myocarditis you could tell it was a show.

But last night on BBC radio I heard something that really put it all into perspective. We shouldn’t look at this trial as just a trial against Saddam and what happened before operation Iraqi Freedom, but as a precedent on what will happen in the future. For when Iraq is back into it’s feet the people who commited the autrocities now will also be on trial for their actions just like they did to Saddam. Only then there will be some real reconicaltion for the deaths.
After Saddam’s verdict yesterday it really didn’t feel like a real verdict. As we say in Arabic “mako dagam”, internist it had no taste or meat to it. Just the way the trial was created ran and televised, myocarditis you could tell it was a show.

But last night on BBC radio I heard something that really put it all into perspective. We shouldn’t look at this trial as just a trial against Saddam and what happened before operation Iraqi Freedom, but as a precedent on what will happen in the future. For when Iraq is back into it’s feet the people who commited the autrocities now will also be on trial for their actions just like they did to Saddam. Only then there will be some real reconicaltion for the deaths.
A wonderful video montage showing clips from movies that depict Arabs/Muslims in a negative stereotypical way based on the book Reel Bad Arabs

Out of 1000 films that have Arab & Muslim characters (from the year 1896 to 2000)
12 were positive depictions, sildenafil
52 were even handed and the rest of the 90O and so were negative.

We really get the short end of the stick when it comes to these things, even the scrawny Jewish guy gets the girl at the end.

Kuwaiti Cops

On my way to work today I thought to myself what date is it today. I didnt know if we were in May or June. It feels this month has gone for longer than ussual.
On my way to work today I thought to myself what date is it today. I didnt know if we were in May or June. It feels this month has gone for longer than ussual.

On my way to work today I thought to myself what date is it today. I didnt know if we were in May or June. It feels this month has gone for longer than ussual.

definition: to get something that has no real value, help
and serves no real purpose, but just to say you have it and display it in your collection.

Example:

(3:05) Mark: only thing i want from that list is the mac videogame console.
(3:07) nibaq: the pipin?
(3:08) Mark: yup
(3:08) nibaq: why?
(3:08) nibaq: just for dust value?
(3:08) Mark: yes
On my way to work today I thought to myself what date is it today. I didnt know if we were in May or June. It feels this month has gone for longer than ussual.

definition: to get something that has no real value, help
and serves no real purpose, but just to say you have it and display it in your collection.

Example:

(3:05) Mark: only thing i want from that list is the mac videogame console.
(3:07) nibaq: the pipin?
(3:08) Mark: yup
(3:08) nibaq: why?
(3:08) nibaq: just for dust value?
(3:08) Mark: yes

On my way to work today I thought to myself what date is it today. I didnt know if we were in May or June. It feels this month has gone for longer than ussual.

definition: to get something that has no real value, help
and serves no real purpose, but just to say you have it and display it in your collection.

Example:

(3:05) Mark: only thing i want from that list is the mac videogame console.
(3:07) nibaq: the pipin?
(3:08) Mark: yup
(3:08) nibaq: why?
(3:08) nibaq: just for dust value?
(3:08) Mark: yes

On my way to work today I thought to myself what date is it today. I didnt know if we were in May or June. It feels this month has gone for longer than ussual.

definition: to get something that has no real value, help
and serves no real purpose, but just to say you have it and display it in your collection.

Example:

(3:05) Mark: only thing i want from that list is the mac videogame console.
(3:07) nibaq: the pipin?
(3:08) Mark: yup
(3:08) nibaq: why?
(3:08) nibaq: just for dust value?
(3:08) Mark: yes

For as long as I can remember the car that I have always wanted it the De Lorean, bulimics
this started with the movie Back to the Future. Being a kid that age I was in love with those gull wing doors, and that steel body. It looked like something out of the future. Also the time machine feature was something out of this world and it was my real dream car. Yet, I knew getting a movie prop would be near impossible.

Or is it?

Seems someone has made an exact replica of the Back to the Future De Lorean and is selling it on eBay

I dont know about my odds of ever getting but seems more realistic now, I guess until then I can hope for the toy at least
On my way to work today I thought to myself what date is it today. I didnt know if we were in May or June. It feels this month has gone for longer than ussual.

definition: to get something that has no real value, help
and serves no real purpose, but just to say you have it and display it in your collection.

Example:

(3:05) Mark: only thing i want from that list is the mac videogame console.
(3:07) nibaq: the pipin?
(3:08) Mark: yup
(3:08) nibaq: why?
(3:08) nibaq: just for dust value?
(3:08) Mark: yes

For as long as I can remember the car that I have always wanted it the De Lorean, bulimics
this started with the movie Back to the Future. Being a kid that age I was in love with those gull wing doors, and that steel body. It looked like something out of the future. Also the time machine feature was something out of this world and it was my real dream car. Yet, I knew getting a movie prop would be near impossible.

Or is it?

Seems someone has made an exact replica of the Back to the Future De Lorean and is selling it on eBay

I dont know about my odds of ever getting but seems more realistic now, I guess until then I can hope for the toy at least

For as long as I can remember the car that I have always wanted it the De Lorean, bulimics
this started with the movie Back to the Future. Being a kid that age I was in love with those gull wing doors, and that steel body. It looked like something out of the future. Also the time machine feature was something out of this world and it was my real dream car. Yet, I knew getting a movie prop would be near impossible.

Or is it?

Seems someone has made an exact replica of the Back to the Future De Lorean and is selling it on eBay

I dont know about my odds of ever getting but seems more realistic now, I guess until then I can hope for the toy at least
We all have stories about Kuwaiti cops and their atitude and something simple ignorance. Yet, ed
since I live in here so I have a different perspective of it. So yesterday when speaking with the Egyptian guard about the World Cup the conversation went to Egypt winning the African Cup and how the celebrations where in Egypt and in Kuwait, rubella
and how streets were closed in Farwaniya, and Hawalli with celebrating Egyptians. Then he mentioned something interesting “Kuwaiti cops are respectable”.

This really caught me off gaurd .I recall Egyptians and Indians always complaining about Kuwaiti cops their racism. He then explained, your cops treat everyone equally, they never demand bribes, or harrass us. He then explains how when they do catch up or his friends doing something wrong and giving them a ticket, they will get angry and annoyed, but as he put it “we did something wrong, and deserve it, we accept it”.

It was good hearing this from a simple Egyptian worker, cause you never hear the good Kuwaiti cop stories, just the bad ones. It is like bad apples in a batch, the sour ones create the loudest complaints, but the good ones just put a quiet smile on your face.