The plight of women in Iraq

Below is a long, but very interesting interview with Zainab Salbi, an activist who works with women in post-conflict areas. What I really loved about it was that she explains the situation so simply and practically. There are some issues there that I’ve never heard of before (for example I never knew that Saddam Hussain [...]

The Father of Science: al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham (965-1039)

Tuesday, 6 January 2009, 18:39 | Category : Crumbs, Uncategorized
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The first physicist to use mathematics to describe and prove what he had discovered was a man called al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham, who was born in what is now Iraq, over a 1000 years ago. Many key European scientists (like Newton and Copernicus) developed ideas that originated with al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham.
In fact, amongst many things, he [...]

BOOK DIARY: December 2008, some fiction at last ;)

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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Language: English
What It’s About
It’s a novel about a boy (Aamir) who grows up in Afghanistan and moves to America with his father when the Soviet war breaks out. He has a very guilty secret that he has to eventually atone for by going back to Afghanistan during the Taliban [...]

The Bush Shoe Throwing Incident

Monday, 29 December 2008, 13:55 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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I’m not sure why I didn’t write about this when it first happened ;) But anyway, here are some hilarious photos from all round the world relating to the incident - apparently when it comes to throwing shoes at Bush, we can all stand united ;)

Camels and Drug Trafficking

Thursday, 25 December 2008, 12:19 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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The Power of Comics

Saturday, 22 November 2008, 2:34 | Category : Crumbs, Uncategorized
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This is a blog post Kin gave me the link to - I really liked it, so I’m sharing :)

US detention centres in Iraq

Sunday, 2 November 2008, 20:03 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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USA-Syria relations after the raid

Saturday, 1 November 2008, 20:04 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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I’m following up my previous post. It’s been a few days and the USA still hasn’t even owned up to conducting the raid.

MY BOOK DIARY: August, September & October 2008

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I had intended to post a little about the books I’m reading, but as you may have noticed I haven’t so far ;-P I’m far from being an avid reader, but (amazingly enough) I have read a few books since moving my blog here, so it’s high time I told you about them *grin* [...]

US raid in Syria

Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 9:58 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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The US is supposed to have crossed the Iraq-Syria border by helicopter and started shooting at civilians. What I totally don’t get is that the US has not given ANY comment on this. They haven’t even said anything on the lines of “we’re looking into it”.