Culture Clashes

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• Parsing the Problems of the Houthi

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  Mshari Al-Zaydi raises an interesting point in his column today. He notes that while the Houthis are members of the Shi’ite Zaidi sect, that is not their only identity. They are also a tribe, the Houthi, who have issues as a tribe, not as a religion. He points out that to conflate the two is an error of logic, much ...
  3 hours ago

• Two More Approaches to Maj. Hasan

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  Here are two opinion pieces that fall on decidedly different sides of the arguments about Maj. Nidal Hasan, alleged to have killed 13 people at Ft. Hood. Marc Lynch, arguing on the pages of Foreign Policy, points out that refueling the ‘clash of civilization’ that puts Americans against Islam is probably not ...
  2 days ago

• Is Maj. Nidal Hasan a ‘Terrorist’?

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  Here’s a piece from Slate, onlline magazine. The writer discusses the various definitions of ‘terrorism’ that are used in different contexts and wonders were Maj. Hasan, the alleged shooter at Ft. Hood last week, falls. The article exactly lines up with my view. Do read the entire piece. Is Nidal Malik Hasan ...
  2 days ago

• Saudi Women Lawyers, ‘Eventually’

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  Change, unfortunately, comes slowly in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It’s been at least 10 years since women have been academically qualified to serve as lawyers in the country, but the best the Minister of Justice can promise, according to this Arab News piece, is that they will ‘eventually’ be able to ...
  3 days ago

• Learning about US Education on Riyadh Radio

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  It’s good to see the US Embassy taking a proactive role on the confusing issues of going to school in America. Rather than a single set of rules and regulations, the US has 51 (or possibly more) state-level governments with their own Departments of Education. Each has its own ideas about how things should be done. ...
  3 days ago

• Looking at KAUST from the Inside

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  Nathan Ball, an American student at KAUST, has a blog, Saudi Aggie. There, he writes about his experiences and perceptions at the university—and his side trips outside during breaks. In addition to just being an interesting read, Nathan’s posts are thoughtful. I’d like to particularly point out his most recent: ...
  3 days ago

• Blasphemy Laws v. Human Rights

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  Here’s an interesting policy paper from the US Commission on International Religious Freedom taking to task the OIC’s effort to create international laws that punish ‘blasphemy’. The paper (an 8-page PDF web document) notes that criminalizing blasphemy does violence to generally understood protections to ...
  4 days ago

• Saudi Media Look at Iran, Houthis

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  Asharq Alawsat runs two opinion pieces today that point to Iran as the force behind the recent (and perhaps on-going) clashes on the Saudi-Yemen border. Hussein Shobokshi provides a riff on the 1959 comedy film “The Mouse That Roared” as Iran’s motivation. Instigating the Houthis, however, was criminal, he ...
  4 days ago

• Belated Birthday Wishes for Petroleum

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  The anniversary slipped by largely unnoticed, but the commercial exploitation of petroleum began 150 years ago last August. The first producing well, in Titusville, Pennsylvania, was opened by Edwin Drake , an American entrepreneur. He first started the economically profitable business of refining crude petroleum ...
  5 days ago

• Muslims in the US Military

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  Directly related to the case of Maj. Hasan, The Washington Post runs this piece in its ‘On Religion’ online section. The piece offers a brief survey of the experiences and attitudes of a few Muslim soldiers in the US military. Most, it appears, don’t have the sort of problems that Maj. Hasan found. This piece ...
  5 days ago

• More on the Ft. Hood Massacre

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  I was asked to further comment on the event in which US Army Maj. Nidal Hasan shot and killed 13 people at Ft Hood, Texas. In particular, I was asked to point out what foreign media (i.e., other than American media) were saying. I’ve spent the day looking, not always fruitfully. German papers, for instance, are ...
  6 days ago

• Another Magician Sentenced to Death

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  The lesson here is to not practice magic in Saudi Arabia. The fact that practicing magic is itself something of a wonder makes no difference. Saudi Shariah courts look harshly on any act that can be construed as ‘magic’. Saudi Gazette/Okaz report that the defendent in this case admitted to the charges and had ...
  6 days ago

• Pointing Fingers

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  The tragedy that occurred at the US Army installation, Ft. Hood, dominates American media coverage, but it is also being reported in Saudi media. The facts, insofar as we know them at the moment, is that an officer, Muslim and of Palestinian descent, went mad and started shooting up the base. He killed 13 and wounded ...
  1 week ago

• Poverty in Saudi Arabia

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  I came across a web log, the other face of saudi arabia , that focuses on photographs of poverty in Saudi Arabia and offers views of the contrasts between the rich and the poor. I don’t know what the blogger’s purpose it, beyond his stated intent to show the poverty and misery that can be found in the country. He ...
  1 week ago

• Culture Clashes with Parents and Media

  
  Prospere Magazine: In Work ... In Life... She Prospers — Authority: 429
  Movies have been dealing with culture clashes between immigrant parents and their new country raised children.  The first talking picture, The Jazz Singer dealt with this very topic – a son of a Jewish cantor who wished to perform jazz.  Several decades later, we got Bend it like Beckham and My Big Fat ...
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• Saudis to Develop New Commercial Courts

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  Financial Times reports that Saudi legal reform is expanding its scope. New Commercial Courts will be set up around the country in order to create uniformity in court decisions on business issues. As the piece points out, leaving complex business issues in the hands of judges educated only in Shariah law is not the ...
  1 week ago

• US Embassy: ‘Exercise Care in Choosing Schools’

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  Saudi Gazette reports on an issue that’s the bane of American Cultural Affairs Officers and Ambassadors: unaccredited universities. Many students around the world want the cachet of an American university degree. The problem is that they may not be able to afford it or to travel abroad to study. This is an ...
  1 week ago

• Iranian Voices in Arabic Quieted

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  Iran’s ability to broadcast to the Arab world, in Arabic, has taken a hit, according to this piece from Radio Netherlands. Both the Egyptian Nilesat and the Gulf Arab States’ Arabsat have stopped transmitting the Al Alam programming. Whether it is the Arab governments’ desire to keep Iranian propaganda off their ...
  1 week ago

• No Co-Education for Al-Qaeda

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  How can you tell when a reform is actually a reform? When Al-Qaeda condemns it! Agence France Presse reports that Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is condemning the co-educational nature of King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST). Al-Qaeda stands in shock and horror that women might actually be ...
  1 week ago

• Creationism in the Islamic World

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  Here’s an interesting piece from the Science section of The New York Times . It notes that rejection of the theory of Evolution is growing in the Islamic world, though with clear differences exhibited in different countries. Creationism, Minus a Young Earth, Emerges in the Islamic World KENNETH CHANG AMHERST, ...
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