Links from my del.icio.us account for October 20th through October 22nd:
- Daily News Egypt – NAZIF’S CLOSING REMARKS ECHO PEPPY TONE OF EUROMONEY – Peppy! And I love the last line of the piece: "There were no farmers or construction workers available at the conference to comment."
- Fatah says to accept Egypt plan for reconciliation – Nabil Shaath says reconciliation agreement nearly finalized
- Exhibition “Agatha Christie’s Egypt: Life on the Nile in the 1930s” – If you're in San Francisco
- Forum for the futile?, Arab democrats ask | Democracy Digest – Pessimism on democracy in the Arab world
- Middlesboro Daily News > Opinion > Editorials > Fingernails in Egypt – Deep and probing questions on the mystery of the baladi fingernail fashion: "One thing I have yet to be able to understand about Egypt is the phenomenon of the long pinky fingernail."
- EGYPT: Hey, you’re not dying! | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times – Glad to see the Hamdy Balala story picked up – too funny
- Time to resurrect the Arab peace plan | World news | guardian.co.uk – Ian Black makes the good argument that it's about time that the Beirut Declaration of 2002, ignored by Bush and Sharon, be used as a base for future Arab-Israel negotiations
- Sudan’s Southern Kordofan Problem: The Next Darfur? – ICG report warns about possibly yet another conflict in Sudan
- Obama: Powell will have a role in administration
(AP) – I don't like it. The guy discredited himself with the UNSC speech on Iraq. He had his chance. - U.S. policies may have contributed to Iran revolution, study says – Los Angeles Times – Newly revealed archives showed US-Saudi oil price-fixing contributed to Shah's downfall
Sometimes you’ll see the lonky pinky nail on old black dudes in the Southern US.
You’ll also see the long pinky nail among shaabi men in North India. Supposedly a tool for cleaning ears and such (yes, ewww) but sometimes they’ll have nail polish on, which kind of makes you wonder.