His resume includes a University of Texas economics Ph.D., a teaching position at Jordan's Yarmouk University, and economic research at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. From 1987 - 1995, he also served as a World Bank and IMF official, and until 2001, was IMF's man in Palestine, serving as Yasser Arafat's finance minister. In Palestine's 2006 legislative elections, his Third Way party got 2.4% of the votes, a clear renunciation. Yet after Fatah's coup d'etat co-opted the PLO, PA and West Bank, President Mahmoud Abbas illegitimately appointed him prime minister.
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Is it really her? Yasser Arafat's widow (do we call her Umm Amr?) is sending out the begging letters.
ReplyDeletehttp://lansburyslido.posterous.com/mrs-yasser-arafat-has-emailed-me
<span>Could be Jemmy! Hard to tell. What she's saying here is just expressing confusion and discontent at the presernt leadership.
ReplyDeleteI am Mrs. SUHA ARAFAT, the wife of YASSER ARAFAT, the Palestinian leader who died recently in Paris. Since his death and even prior to the announcement, I have been thrown into a state of antagonism,confusion,humiliation,frustration and hopelessness by the present leadership of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the newPrime Minister.
Btw, calling her Umm Ammar would be funny because Ammar is not her son but Arafat's in case he even exists. Also as a costum, names like Abu Jihad doesn't necessarily mean he had a son called Jihad, it's a nic name given to all those who were/are operatives the struggle.
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Sorry this is off topic TG, but today I heard on Minbar al-Jazeera what I think is an old man from Egypt (he didn't sound like an academic) suggesting that we should have a new concept (مصطلح) in the Arabic language and that is Tawwnasa (تونس), i.e., Tunisation (or perhaps Tunisization). This struck me as brilliant. I think we should try to popularize it like (تونست العالم العربي) The "Tunisation/Tunisization of the Arab world" as the goal of all Arabs.
ReplyDeleteTo give credit where credit is due, here is the link for the clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrMoWoI0A0g
The man's name is Ali 'Abd al-Raziq. Watch him at 39:21 (but also watch the beginning of the program, it is moving)
TG,
ReplyDeleteYou may want to post this (I did in my fb):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmK0CAZdQe8&feature=player_embedded#!
Here is what I believe is the original clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FnTp-B9Je4&feature=related
Aljazeera link I earlier provided shows it too
Abu Zuhair..You may not know this but 'Yetawannas' (yatawannas) in The Lebanese dialect is "to feel cosy". Otherwise Tunisians would have contributed in more that one field, one in the art of toppling dictators, and another enriching political lingo! Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant video Abu Zuhair, thank you! It gave me goosebumps! I'll post it here and on the PP and also on FB. Didn't check the others yet but will later.
ReplyDeleteoh, TG, I didn't think about tawannus (تونس), which I know (it is part of the Palestinian dialect too). I realize now how difficult it is to write Arabic here. I put the (شده) over the waw (و) not the nun (ن)
ReplyDeleteperhaps I should've written (تونسه)
ReplyDeleteI also think that to topple a dictator is the same thing as "to feel cosy"
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