Opinion: Finding the new Silk Road Egyptian Gazette An Arab oasis: Beijing's One Thousand and One Nights Restaurant. The answer came to me faster than I expected. The day after I arrived in Beijing, I turned on the TV in my hotel room, only to find the music on one of the official Chinese channels...

Suzanne Tamim, Murdered Lebanese Pop Star: Hisham Talaat Moustafa Sentenced To … Right Juris She was known for performing modern pop and classical Arabic music . On July 28, 2008, she was found in a hotel room in Dubai with her throat slit. Read more from the original source:  Suzanne Tamim,...

The AtlanticWire (blog) Would Arabs Love Lady Gaga? The AtlanticWire (blog) Exum compares the provocative, hyper-sensual videos of Lady Gaga with the provocative, hyper-sensual music videos of Haifa Wehbe , a "Hizballah-supporting" … See original here: Would Arabs Love Lady Gaga? –...

Haifa Wehbe Firedoglake (blog) When I was last in Iraqi Kurdistan I considered it a journalistic obligation to watch Hotbird-satellite-borne Haifa Wehbe videos in my hotel room, … Here is the original:  Haifa Wehbe – Firedoglake (blog)