Archive for September, 2007
Ramadan in Yemen
Sunday, September 30th, 2007Yes, yet again the holy month of Ramadan has arrived, and Yemen, like all Muslim countries, goes bananas as people try to abstain from food, drink, smoking and thoughts of sex from sunrise until sunset. The idea is to have an idea of how poor people who regularly starve live their lives and thus be […]
Gearing up for war?
Saturday, September 15th, 2007I don’t know if this case has made much of an appearance in the Norwegian media, but the Israeli bombing of something in eastern Syria last week and the speculation of what actually happened later is not a good sign for the Middle East or peaceful resolutions of any of the numerous conflicts in the […]