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Just Wanna Know: January 2006
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006. This is going to still be spun a bit, but here's what I told the Graduate School:. Posted by John Schaefer @ 1:40 PM. Links to this post. Thursday, January 26, 2006. I successfully defended my dissertation prospectus! I am now free to roam about the world. Posted by John Schaefer @ 2:28 PM. Links to this post. Monday, January 23, 2006. Taqwacore, not Muslim Punk. Refuses to define Taqwacore, but he does give a short summary for how he came to popularize the term. Taqwa. Wade Bu...
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Just Wanna Know: June 2006
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Thursday, June 29, 2006. Dar Gnawa in Essaouira. Originally uploaded by sandema. OK, here's Yahya's attempt to catch up with all the cool kids and do some Flickring. Above are Walid (Abdellah El Gourd's nephew), Ahmed El Gourd (his brother), and Muhammad from the Dar Gnawa troupe in Tangier. Posted by John Schaefer @ 7:15 AM. Links to this post. Saturday, June 24, 2006. The occasion was a truly historical meeting and joint press conference between H'mida Boussou. And Abdellah El Gourd. Links to this post.
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Just Wanna Know: March 2006
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Friday, March 24, 2006. I want to use this word to describe Anne Lamott. I could use lots of other words, of course. Like funny, smart, quirky, irreverent, and wise. Or even paranoid, narcissistic, vulgar, imbalanced, and preachy- but always funny as hell. When I teach, I rely on her writing process from Bird By Bird. But as I read her latest book, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith. Which my mother got for us, I’m struck most by Lamott’s honest writing voice. Posted by John Schaefer @ 12:02 PM. The title...
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Just Wanna Know: February 2006
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006. Can we say Civil War yet? At least over the past week, that's what it's looked like. OK, we already knew the US military was unable to ensure the safety of themselves from terrorists, let alone the safety of Iraqis (which the US is required to maintain, as the occupying force) from terrorists or even from regular ol' criminals. But as Juan Cole reports. The Washington Post has fixed a tally. Posted by John Schaefer @ 11:40 AM. Links to this post. Wednesday, February 22, 2006.
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Just Wanna Know: October 2005
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Monday, October 31, 2005. White Men Can't Run. Air Force Academy football coach Fisher DeBerry commented last week, on his team's 48-10 loss to Texas Christian University, that TCU. Had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did . It just seems to me to be that way. Afro-American kids can run very well. That doesn't mean that Caucasian kids and other descents can't run, but it's very obvious to me that they run extremely well.". So white men can't run either? At th...
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Just Wanna Know: April 2006
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Friday, April 28, 2006. Featured a cover story about the brief but very tangled chapter of Scientology. In the history of Morocco and, appropriately enough, Tangier. No doubt the magazine was motivated by The Ubiquitous One, his naive fiancee, and their newborn daughter named for a shiny little carriage with a fringe on top. After last year’s kookery cementing the fringe status of Scientology, Tom has worked hard this year to rehabilitate its global image. But here’s another kooky story. In June 1971, wh...
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Just Wanna Know: July 2006
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Thursday, July 27, 2006. That's the number of my official signature on the books at the Baladiyya-Chellah in south-western downtown Tangier (municipal services office). I assume the numbering begins anew each month. Then I took my entire packet over to immigration to submit for my residency application. Posted by John Schaefer @ 7:14 AM. Links to this post. Friday, July 21, 2006. The Hezbollians Are Coming! Posted by John Schaefer @ 8:34 AM. Links to this post. Monday, July 10, 2006. Just Like They Said.
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Just Wanna Know: May 2006
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Thursday, May 25, 2006. Hamza El Din, 1929-2006. Just got the sad news that Hamza El Din died last Tuesday from complications after brain surgery at Alta Bates Hospital in his adopted hometown of Berkeley. The artist and musician was probably the Nubian musician best known outside of Egypt and Sudan (Nubia lies across their borders, around Lake Nasser). His songs told of the Nubians' loss of their homeland- many who lived along the river were uprooted by the Egyptian government when it built Aswan Dam.
