There has not been enough of this in my lifetime. It’s almost 4am, I should be going to sleep but …
December 18, 2010 – 4:07 am
Reading: Reza Negarestani – Cyclonopedia
reza negarestani – cyclonopedia
December 3, 2010 – 7:45 am
Burka Bondage
The past couple of months Dasniya has been rehearsing with Helena Waldmann, in a piece she helped with last year …
October 16, 2010 – 4:35 am
Reading… a 3rd anniversary
Regarding the two-score books of the last year, it is surprising which of the non-fiction – a term I use …
September 19, 2010 – 1:59 am
eating: lamb and fresh fig tajine
Michael came back to Berlin for the weekend, a welcome surprise that coincided nicely with my weeks-long desire for a …
September 12, 2010 – 1:23 am
(Some) Stuff I Read This Week
For some reason I decided to start using Twitter again — I suspect iPhone — and without any clear purpose …
September 5, 2010 – 4:24 am
germany is (slightly) embarrassing itself
Reading signandsight’s From the Feuilletons this week… it’s been dead in my feed for some time, but returned with excellent …
May 18, 2010 – 4:10 am
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem
May 9, 2010 – 11:08 am
reading: juan cole – engaging the muslim world
juan cole – engaging the muslim world
May 3, 2010 – 2:45 pm
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust
May 1, 2010 – 3:37 am
I am a Muslim
Coming to Berlin caused my attention to drift to a small part of my life I know little about, and …
January 31, 2010 – 4:14 am
reading: g. whitney azoy – buzkashi – game and power in afghanistan
g. whitney azoy – buzkashi
January 21, 2010 – 11:12 am
reading: christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
January 21, 2010 – 11:08 am
reading: iranophobia – the logic of an israeli obsession – haggai ram
iranophobia – haggai ram
January 7, 2010 – 10:33 am
Reading: Katherine Pratt Ewing – Stolen Honor – Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
katherine pratt ewing – stolen honor
November 3, 2009 – 12:58 pm
Reading… a 2nd anniversary
My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …
October 25, 2009 – 7:05 am
orgy of tolerance
To have your idols disappoint. It is a delicious sensation. And probably inevitable, necessary. My Friday Antwerp wanderings, despite the …
October 30, 2006 – 3:17 pm
some new blogs
About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting “contemporary dance” Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I …
October 3, 2006 – 10:41 pm
we are no longer human
I really, really urge you all to read this article that appeared in Rolling Stone, The Unending Torture of Omar …
March 22, 2005 – 5:45 pm
UAE Sharjah International Biennale 7
The UAE Sharjah International Biennale 7 opens in a couple of weeks in Sharjah Art Museum and the nearby Heritage …
September 24, 2004 – 9:30 pm
baghdad year zero
I haven’t written about the war in Iraq, or the radical conservative politics and coming elections either in America or …
April 20, 2004 – 12:05 am
AlJazeera on Time’s Hot-100 list
The founders of the news channel everyone loves to hate has been voted one of Time Magazine’s World’s 100 most …