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- Happy Valentine’s Day
Via Konfidi, Saudi Arabia has banned the color red for Valentine’s Day:
Because of the ban on red roses, a black market has flowered ahead of Valentine’s Day. Roses that normally go for five Saudi riyal ($1.30) fetch up to 30 riyal ($8) on February 14, the Saudi Gazette said.
“Sometimes we deliver the bouquets in the [...]
- PKK to Kansas?
Since the founding of the Republic, Turkey’s archenemies have been those whose who harbor legitimate claims against their territory: Greeks, Armenians and Kurds. Ankara’s deepest fears always involve some conspiracy consisting of several of the aforementioned groups collaborating against them to dismantle modern Turkey.
Usually these claims are nonsense, if not utterly absurd.The plot of [...]
- Kaplan Shout-Out in the WSJ
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Michael B. Oren, a senior fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, says that Kaplan’s The Arabists is one of the “five best” books that “vividly capture the long history of America’s encounters with the Arab world.” In short:
The Arabists
By Robert [...]
