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retreat: May 2011
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Saturday, May 7, 2011. Bin Ladism long dead. 8212;and does it really matter to know? The photo “works” precisely because it adds suspense to the hors-champs, incorporating the unseen and out-of-frame within the suspended narrative, while capturing le moment décisif. The photo was taken on May 1 2011, and uploaded on Flickr a day later:. Http:/ www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/5680724572/in/photostream. Links to this post. Thursday, May 5, 2011. A new third political order? Links to this post.
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retreat: November 2008
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Saturday, November 29, 2008. The agreements—a broad “strategic framework” and a more detailed strategic pact that were ratified Thursday by the Iraqi Parliament—set a deadline that critics of the war have long waited. They require that all American forces withdraw from Iraq no later than December 31, 2011, but they offer no timetable for withdrawals. Should the U.S. withdraw by 2011? Would Iraq be safe enough by that time? Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget.
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retreat: December 2012
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Friday, December 14, 2012. The syrian civil war. Is the current violence in Syria a revolt of “society” against an oppressive state, or should it be read more meaningfully as a full fledged civil war? Political and economic order, which still dominates the region until now, and which apparently the current revolts are attempting to displace, was already there. But are we ready for a third. As the prime status group in society was neither an “aristocracy” per se nor assigned any political. With the coloni...
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retreat: May 2008
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Thursday, May 15, 2008. Crisis with deep historical underpinnings. Indeed, such an overt political optimism is part of a Lebanese tradition that perceives groups and parties in terms of political relations at home and abroad. The Hezbollah is thus a combination of Syrian and Iranian proxies, while regional pressures would only come to an end once more equitable solutions are found to the region as a whole, from Palestine to Iraq and beyond. By the time the Pax Syriana. Bargains: let’s give them a b...
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retreat: August 2014
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Thursday, August 7, 2014. Lebanon's new 2014 law on low rents. Low rents in Lebanon, in light of the new 2014 law. Concepts of property and contractual obligations in contemporary Lebanon, as for the rest of eastern Mediterranean societies, have been marked by a paradigmatic shift whose time framework coincided with the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of new nation-states by the French and British colonial powers. Even though the land law of 1858 required the registration. Thus, if I...
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retreat: lebanon's new 2014 law on low rents
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Thursday, August 7, 2014. Lebanon's new 2014 law on low rents. Low rents in Lebanon, in light of the new 2014 law. Concepts of property and contractual obligations in contemporary Lebanon, as for the rest of eastern Mediterranean societies, have been marked by a paradigmatic shift whose time framework coincided with the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of new nation-states by the French and British colonial powers. Even though the land law of 1858 required the registration. Thus, if I...
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retreat: April 2011
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Sunday, April 24, 2011. The economics of sharia law. Kuran, Timur, The Long Divergence. How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. ISBN 978–0–691–14756–7. U.S. $29.95. Or why, in the vast Islamic empires since the Umayyads and Abbasids up to the Ottomans, no major challenges were posed to the legal limitations on partnership, inheritance, loans with interest, and waqfs? What in effect persevered since the 10th–11th centuries was a de facto. Assuming that in th...
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retreat: June 2014
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Sunday, June 29, 2014. The bogus of enrollments. Institutions are in their very essence hypocritical about their aims, methods, and practices, a fortiori when an institution of “higher learning” claims that its “high” aim is nothing but “knowledge,” the common good, or “Jesuit education” and the goodness of the world. Yet the whole tone of the letter is individualistic, addressing enrollement as if it is “my” problem, while maintaining that bogus institutional loyalty as the bearer of “...As the letter d...
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retreat: January 2009
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Saturday, January 31, 2009. Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. Technorati Tags: The Wrestler. Links to this post. Sunday, January 25, 2009. Between secularists and jihadists. Links with the likes of Hamas and the PLO: did Israel’s paranoiac attitude towards Palestinians since 1948 help ferment the likes of the PLO, Hamas, and the Hezbollah? Was it that one was more user–friendly with the “Zionist enemy” than the other? Or was it for their different views of politics and society? Links to this post. Be We t...
