Custodian of the two holey socks
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2009
* * * * * Just heard the a certain leader has made his son in charge of everything. Such a shock, I may have to lie down. * * * * * Brethren, and sistren, but mainly brethren: Mona Eltahawy calls Palestine ‘“the opium of the Arabs”: an intoxicating way for them to forget [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2009
The BBC have featured the following article: Prize for electricity-free fridge A 22-year-old Leeds student has been named one of the Women of the Year after inventing a “sustainable” fridge. However, I have seen similair inventions before. Shaykh Google revels: A fridge that needs no electricity – The Times of India A Low-cost Clay Fridge [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 13th, 2009
The only advantage to having my name misspelled on my passport was I never got stopped at immigration. Like most things, I blame my parents. Unlike most things, it really was down to them. Actually, it was down to them, and the Tabligh Jamaat.* See, when I was born, and they were deciding names, my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 10th, 2009
Amongst his many jobs, my father used to work as an interpreter for south yorkshire police. He used to tell us stories about how he was dragged out of bed in the middle of the night because some kid had been arrested, and refused to speak English. My dad, fluent in Arabic, Swahili, English, Urdu, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2009
Salaams. It has been a while since I blogged. Yes, I have been twittering and facebooking, but not proper blogging. I have been making copious notes on evernote, but for actual publishing, real life has not spared me the time to blog or write properly (apart from the article I did for the Guardian. I [...]