Humor

This story happened more than 70 or 80 years ago, in the Galilee Heights, during the British occupation “Mandate” to Palestine, a long time before we had the “honor” to host our “cousins’ the jews. There, in one of the Galilee villages, there was a Palestinian peasant who had a stubborn donkey. Both, the peasant [...]

A few days ago, The New York Times reported that US Intelligence warned Senators of the threat of Al Qaeda and its affiliates launching an attack on US soil within the next six months.
Hmm, sounds familiar.
A little too familiar.
You see, I like to think of history as a broken record (or corrupted .mp3 file for [...]

David Gee is an English author and a wannabe satirist. He lived in the Gulf for six years trying to be funny and failing miserably in the process. In order to evidence his failure at humor he felt the urge to publish his poorly designed “novel” that recycles tedious stereotypes about the Gulf and specifically [...]

Allah Made Me Funny, the world’s funniest Muslim comedy show is back in town for a one off performance at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. The stand up comedy show consists of three of the America’s funniest comedian’s who will deliver one night of hilarious new material on topics such as being a muslim in America, politics, [...]

Shaaban Abdel-Rahim Praises Al-Zaidi
 Shabulla’s new song You’re Useless mocks Bush and the infamous shoe incident, as Egypt’s infamous folk singer salutes the Arab world’s newest folk hero. It’s somehow strangely fitting….that the comedic singer who is both widely ridiculed and immensly popular should commemorate an incident which is both comical slap-stick and political dynamite.
Shaaban’s [...]

21 questions:
1) Will Saudi Arabia ever acknowledge the term “Minimum Wage”?
2) Who came up with the color coding of genders? White thobes for men, and “black” Abaya (robe) for women?
3) Why is (Saudi) Arabia one of the few, if not the only, countries named after a Person?
4) What’s the percentage of Saudi citizens that see [...]

This comic is inspired by the Kurdish youth who have been harrassed and charged in Turkey simply for singing a song in the Kurdish language.

You can read more about the Kurdish case at our upcoming site, which is currently under massive construction, or by reading posts by Kurdish authors Goran and Niroj.
Turkish version of the [...]

A wise person once said “Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine”. And it is with that spirit that president Ahmadinejad announced his new reform policies, in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of the Middle East.
Recognizing that no society can possibly be built [...]

So, you heard about the Dunkin Donut ad in which the TV cooking show host Rachael Ray
wears a Keffiyeh, a traditional muslim head dress and tons of bloggers went nuts because they think that she was making a statement supporting the Palestinian struggle?
What really pisses me off is the fact that a simple head dress [...]

I can take criticism. I get it all the time. But what does push me to respond is when the critics resorts to distortions and lies to make their point. One such criticism focused on the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour by a student at The Daily Cougar Newspaper at the University of Houston. We performed at [...]