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Polls can be Appalling In a Pig's Bloody Eye Open Bible, Closed Mind I dvrc u The Banana Republic with very few Bananas Edward Said, 40 Years Later It Takes a Liar Popular Costumes of Turks in 1873 Isolating Qatar Washington, Jefferson, Trump, Bin Salman Camels in the News New Year, Old Crises Just a Video Game? Get Ready for Trumpageddon Mark Twain on Who Owns Palestine Bedouins on Mars BS on MBS by TLF Saudi Arabia's Newest Citizen Mapping the Middle East Arabic Sign Language Bombing al-Asad and Arming the Saudis With Friends like These The Emperor Has No Clothes A Toll of Two Cities From Dust to Dust What is Aleppo? Mr. Khan vs. the Con Man The Great Saudi Piñata Branding Expats in the Middle East MENA Tidningen (2/15/16) It Just Takes Time ISIS, Who's Your Daddy? American Interests, Sunni-Side Up Russia Gets Syrious about ISIS The Canal through Nowhere The Refugee Crisis and Orientalism Salman Fishing in Washington An Impish Desire for Imperial Déjà Vu So Much for Democracy Religion is not Archaeology Why I Don't Dig "Dig" Holes in the Gender Gap Going to Pottery Barn Chilling Prospects for the Arab SpringMiddle East Muddle, Anthropology News (12/13) Archived on Anthro Source Poison
Gas, Cruise Missiles and Drones On Pharaohs, Pundits and ScholarsMiddle East Muddle, Anthropology News (9/13) Archived on Anthro Source Scholars Notebook: Daniel Varisco on What’s in the Sea and Stars for Qatar, ISLAMiCommentary, June 28, 2013 Hezbullies
in Syria Sex
beyond Sects Gender Jihad and Body Politics Anthropology News (4/13) Archived on Anthro Source Roads
to and from Damascus Drone
Strikes: The Error in the War on Terror Self-Inflicted
Wounds No
Olive Branch in Gaza Poster
War on the New York Subway Between
the Rock of Ages and a Hard Sell Body
Politics, Crisis
Hopping A "No Fly" in the Ointment in Libya History News Network (3/20/11) All
Eyes on Egypt Milking
the Mosque Cow, Covering
Afghanistan Grinding a Greater Axis of Evil, History News Network (12/28/09) More
Than Just (a) War What
is There to Study? (Re: Afghanistan Study Group) How
Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech plays today A lesson for U.S.: Somalia is not Iraq, Newsday (4/30/07) Another Blow for the Horn of Africa History News Network (12/26/06) Send
more troops? Bush's
Misleading Talk About Democracy Bombs
Away In
Iraq, Mourning Has Broken on a Bridge to the Past The Segment-Dairy Lineage System of the Yort Nomads. MERA Forum (Berkeley)10(1):12-14, 1998.Online: http://www.ahjur.org/humor/yort.html The Lunar Stations in Arab Tradition. American Research Center in Egypt Newsletter(NY) 127:20-23, 1984. Orientalism and Anthropological Discourse. MERA Forum 5(4):8-10, 1982.
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Chewing on the "Khat" Issue War and the Housing Crisis Peace Talks and War Talk What One Death Means Is the Bombing of Yemen about to End? Kashoggi, Yemen and the War on Journalism What makes Yemen a "legitimate" state? How Many Children Have to Die? Talk about Peace Tell Your Representative to Stop the War in Yemen Geocolonialism and the War in Yemen Socotra and Little Sparta Meanwhile in Yemen No Alibi for Tit for Tat America, Britain and the Saudi War on Yemen Nikki Haley’s Uncomfortable Ignorance about Yemen Saudi Arabia’s Filthy Lucre Hearts of Glass Yemen's Heritage at Risk Houthis, Separatists and an exiled Hadi Hadi on the Ropes A New Front in Yemen's War Qat and Famine in Yemen Ali Abdullah Salih Reported Dead Have the Houthis Lost Yemen? Of Cholera, Cluster Bombs and Summer Vacation A Good Offense? Divide and Don't Conquer The Toxic Proxy War over Yemen The Politics of Famine War with the Sexes Faith, Hope and Charity Violence, Climate Change and the Water Crisis Bombs, Billions and Body Parts Team Trump and Yemen Starving for Humanity On the Slaying of Thousands Bombing a Prophet’s Tomb in Yemen Hint: They Don't Care Chipping Away at Yemen Suffer the Little Children The Catastrophe of John McCain Blame the Huthis Piecemeal Talks on Yemen And the Winner Is? Tunnel Vision on Yemen Yes, Prince Turki, You are a Free Rider The Road to Kawkaban Congressional White Washing the Yemen War
Heritage Be Damned The Islamic Anti-State in Yemen MENA Tidningen (1/29/16) The Voice of which America Cluster Bombs and War Crimes MENA Tidningen (1/11/16) The Blind Bleeding the Blind The War Nobody Knows No Happy New Year for Yemen Bombs, Cyclones and Locusts Photoshopping the Yemen War The Game of War The Usual Suspects As Sana'a becomes Aleppo Terrorism at the University Running out of Patience but not Patients Mosquecide Murder in Mocha Safeguarding Yemen's Cultural Heritage Looking Away from 'Bombs Away' Assessing the Damage from the 'Storm' Desprecio saudí por los símbolos yemeníes If faith comes from Yemen, then... Women in Yemen: a force for change Sliding Towards a Virtual Genocide in Yemen It’s Not About Sects
When Heritage Turns to Rubble Proxy Morons: The Demolition of Yemen CyberSurfing Yemen’s Arab Spring Middle East Muddle, Anthropology News 12/13 Archived on Anthro Source Is This the Last Dance for Ali?, History News Network (5/25/11) In
Yemen rebellion, snakes have bitten Yemen
is not Tunisia or Egypt Yemen
is not a terrorist factory Worth a
Response: Why Yemen is Not Afghanistan After New York ... Before Sanaa: A Postmodern Lufthansa Lullaby Yemen Update (1998) The Twin Twigs: Coffee and Qat. The World & I 12(7):217-227, July, 1997. Observations on the Baboons in the Garden of the "Bostan Restaurant" Yemen Update (1991) "A
Trip to the Hadramawt" The Qât Factor in North Yemen's Agricultural Development. Culture and Agriculture 34:11-14, 1988. Rhinoceros Horn is also the Animal's Achilles'
Heel. The Christian Science Monitor (June
28):19-20, 1988. The Meaning of Chewing. Harper's(NY) 273:1639:27-28, 1986. From Saba to al-Ahjur. Arab Perspectives (NY) 3:34-36, April,1982.
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The Antichrist, by the numbers Just how stupid are Trump supporters? Who's Your Antichrist: Eerdogan or Trump? Would Jesus Vote for Trump? The Bible, the Quran and Amerian History Terror, Virtue and Barbarism Caligula Trumps the GOP No Peace on Earth Donald Trump and P. T. Barnum Hell is Not in the Hereafter Whatever Happened to Fundamentalism? Regarding Religion, Anthropology News, 1/14 Archived on Anthro Source
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Mark Twain on what a Muslim is A Kingly Look at Islamic Astronomy Mapping the Islamic World Banning (Muslims) Terrorists in the Trump Era The Statue against Liberty Sikhs are not Muslims Trump, Pence and Islamophobia Deplorables, Rapists and Islamophobia Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Not Muslim Clothed-MindedViews on Burqinis Automadness Bombing Deconstructing Salazar on ISIS People of the Book: Why Not the Book of Love? Fox and Enemies (i.e., Muslims) Trump the Tramp and Trash Talk ISIS Lunacy and the Bible Belt The Un-Islamic State Secularity and Secularism, Islam and Muslims: A Conversation between Daniel Martin Varisco and Hasan Azad Life
without Honor Muslims of
Color Pornographic
War Gazing: Why We Don't Look Away, The Impact of Muslim Scholars on Western Science. Chonjo (Lamu, Kenya) 10:18-21, 2010. Ibn Big Ben The Empire’s
New Clothes Burning
Books, Burning Bodies, Burning Bridges Born Free,
Unless You are Female Facebook vs.
the Holy Book Hate, Times
Squared On Colonels,
Pantyhose and Honor Killings Are the Hutarees
on a Jihad for Jesus? Words Matter: The Linguistic Damage of “Going Muslim”, Religion Dispatches (11/17/09) Satanic
or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims? Our soldiers
are bringing bibles to Afghans? Really? Mumbai
and the Blame Game So
if it’s not about religion … Muslims on
the American Landscape Hijab, Raw
Meat and Catnip Holy War over
Papal Bull
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