Tag Archives: Edward Said

i and thou and the guy that wrote it down

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Dave

I and thou. Us and them. Utopian prophet and social visionary or charlatan and snake oil salesman, as intellectual lamb in sheep’s clothing; a crypto-Zionist as a very good cop? Martin Buber’s translator has died which brings focus back to … Continue reading →

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clearing the bush

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Dave

That’s freedom! Freedom to choose between Tide and ivory, between Corn Flakes and Cheerios, freedom to consume transformed high profit margin global brands who spend so massively on marketing and publicity as to make Hollywood look like poor orphans. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, Barack Obama and Edward Said, Edward Said, IBM Watson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohamed Morsi, Pankaj Mishra, Parisa Hafezi, Samuel P. Huntington, The Iran Job movie | Leave a comment

bummed out on bengal

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Dave

The stereotype of the Indian from India in American culture has been an enduring one, in part inherited from British colonialism and shoehorned into the mass media tropes that frame our present perceptions. If all the oppressed and colonized peoples … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arthur "Bomber" Harris, Barack Obama 2012, Edward Said, Field Marshall Wavell, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, Graham Sutherland portraits, Hans Wild Life Magazine, Hari Kondaboluon, Karsh photographs, Madame Pickwick, Madhusree Mukherjee, Mindy Kaling, Mitt Romney 2012, Walter Benjamin, Winston Churchill, yousuf karsh | Leave a comment

how the west was won: the fatwa tears

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Dave

A valid critique of Salman Rushdie. He was put into a difficult role in which he was still an “other” articulating the emotions of the colonized, but from a privileged perched in which he could always invoke a fifth amendment … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Alan Yentob, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christopher Hitchens, Edward Said, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malise Ruthven, Salman Rushdie, Salman Rushdie Joseph Anton, Zia ul-Haq | Leave a comment

obamarama: once upon a time in the west

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Dave

Barack Obama and the slogan for 2012: “Go Forward” well defined theme that captures the leftist messianism that seems so misguided, corrupted and dysfunctional. A messianic pursuit of secular divinity and backed by trashy rags like the New York Times, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged arab spring, Barack Obama 2012, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, Dan Halutz, Edward Said, Franz Kafka, Henry Fonda, International Day for Democracy, Jason Robards, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Mohamad Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pope Benedict XVI Lebanon, Stevens ambasador Libya, Theodor Adorno, thomas friedman new york times, thomas l. friedman, Walter Benjamin, Zvi Rav-Ner | Leave a comment

Business is business: a nation of traders?

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Dave

1-800-kidnap. Its a new app. The kidnap app: does all the calculations, delivery charges, storage charges, maintenance charges. Any depreciation and product damage, insurance for product liability and any additional warranties on future performance that may fall short of expectations. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged 9/11 Memorial Jerusalem, Bashar Al Assad, Dan Shapiro U.S. Embassy Irsarel, doug saunders globe and mail, Edward Said, Efim Weinstein, ehud olmert, Eliezer Weishoff sculptor, Eric Saunders, Free Syrian Army, Free Syrian Army Kidnappings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Norman Finkelstein, Red Hot Chili Peppers Israel, Saad Hariri, Sheikh Nazem Abu Salim, Yitzhak Aharonovitch | Leave a comment

a plateful it is

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Dave

The level of profoundness and incisiveness, let alone plain vanilla veracity is about at the same level as elementary school Scholastic Book Services paperbacks. Banal, slightly generic, and with lots of pablum serving drivel and spittle. Its the New York … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged bashar assad, Damien Cave, Edward Said, ethan bronner, Free Syrian Army, Jean Leon Gerome, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moises Saman, Otto Dix, Syrian Crisis, thomas friedman | Leave a comment

a prophet armed: don’t mess with the man

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Dave

Not one to mice words. Mohammed the prophet became Mohammed the general: Islam is the only one of the world’s great religions to have been founded on the Sword as well as the Word… “Why do you not adore the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged abu-Bakr, abu-Talib and Mohammed, Ayman Kandeel, Edward Said, Hilary Clinton, Iman Mubarak, Islam Origins, Kaaba Black Stone, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mahmoud Abdelghafar, Mohamed Morsi, Mohammad Fneish, Mohammed Morsi, Moutim Tribe, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, Rafik Hariri, rudolph valentino, the Kaaba | Leave a comment

friedman: just one of the boys

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Dave

Thomas Friedman seems to be approaching his expiry date according to the package, that boxed and perishable piece of goods called “dogmatic lefty” . The same recycling of Kraft Dinner socialism and status conscious white liberalism based on that hierarchy … Continue reading →

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turn out your love light

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dave

…Upon finishing The Arabian Nights, Richard Francis Burton began to work on a new edition of The Perfumed Garden of the Cheikh Nefzaoui, an Arabic manual on the art of love, a sort of complementary tome to the “literal” eroticism … Continue reading →