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The Arab myth of Western women

Unflattering as some western stereotypes are of Arab men, Western women also get a bad press in conservative Arab circles.

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

@hossambahgat Sadly, this is not new. The Israeli right has been pushing conspiracy theories about the left and about peace activists for years. An example of this was the 2016 NGO law which targeted progressive organisations receiving foreign funding. chronikler.com/middle-east/is…

16:54 · March 28, 2023

Anand Menon

@anandMenon1

Much excitement in the family whatsapp group this morning at the prospect of an Indian and a Pakistani bringing about the partition of Britain

12:13 · March 28, 2023 ·

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Hany Ragy

@Hragy

⁦@DiabolicalIdea⁩ 4 year old article in the WAPO never fails to make me smile, I can write a short very entertaining book on this as a non muslim living in a wonderful muslim majority country… but I will die with my stories❤️ happy Ramadan & cheers washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-…

07:18 · March 28, 2023 ·

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Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

@Hragy I'm intrigued by this unwritten book of yours. Thanks for sharing my article on booze and Ramadan. Pleased it still gives you a smile

06:39 · March 28, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

@TracyQuanNYC Good initiative. It's similar to traditional practice in some Muslim societies. In Egypt, for example, there are so-called Tables of the Merciful where the poor or any passerby can break their fast free of charge.

16:55 · March 27, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

Plot twist. Academics who wrote paper about how Artificial Intelligence is making plagiarism harder to detect... used AI to write the paper. Reviewers did not spot the hand of AI, thereby proving the researchers' point. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence theguardian.com/technology/20…

07:03 · March 27, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

Homosexuality is incomparably more common in the animal world than prayer is, yet you don't hear bigots and fanatics demanding the banning of prayer because it's "unnatural".

19:46 · March 24, 2023

Rasha Al Aqeedi

@RashaAlAqeedi

20 years later, I remember every detail. The fear, hope, anxiety, the tears, laughs, and trauma. The invasion of Iraq defined me and shaped my life. The survivor’s guilt still taunts me. For @newlinesmag newlinesmag.com/first-person/…

16:56 · March 24, 2023 ·

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Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

As a species, we are empathetic enough to anthropomorphise human characteristics on to non-human machines and conceited enough to hold the anthropocentric belief that there will always be something essentially human that can't be replicated or surpassed by a machine.

16:37 · March 24, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, switched on the city's first-ever #Ramadan light display on Piccadilly Circus, and the reaction from rightwing trolls was all too predictable. No, this is not an omen of Londonistan but a sign of vibrant multiculturalism chronikler.com/travel/londoni… twitter.com/SadiqKhan/stat…

08:25 · March 24, 2023

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