Nice Weather Today

Amazing weather today. Took my class out again where we talked about Coleridge and Opium. (I hope no one starts having ideas)
Scattered my second grass on the lawn in Kaifan (yes we have one). One group sat on the floor and I was tempted to spend more time with them than with the other groups. [...]

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تلفون خربان

Why do government employees lack the simplest levels of customer service?Why do they assume that customers have nothing to do other than wait for them while they chat with this and that?Why do men have a problem looking at you when you talk? And I’m not talking about those so-called religious le7ya dudes. This guy [...]

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Marooned in Iraq

Optimistic in its ending, as seen in the continuation of life through Hanareh’s daughter, the film is an extremely somber type of dark comedy. The devastation of life that is evident throughout Mirza’s journey, though presented lightly, gives a heartbreaking image of the life of Kurds both in Iran and Iraq.
Mirza sets out with his [...]

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The English Sheik and the Yemeni Gentleman

Yemen is beautiful, or so the movie makes it look. But Yemen is also ancient, so very very ancient. And even though those old mud houses appear beautiful, I think living in them can be quite a scare. “The site of them becomes all the more attractive the more fearful it is, provided we are [...]

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Leila

Responses generated by the audience (paraphrased and condensed):
– I’m surprised that even though the movie is feminist in its story, we see patriarchy being enforced by a woman rather than a man. It is the mother-in-law who causes the family’s demise.
– That patriarchy is represented not through the men in the movie, but through the [...]

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Dreams Without Sleep

Turnout was pretty good. The room, albiet small, was packed. Unfortunately neither director Waleed Al-Awadhi nor manager of the Kuwait Cine Club Imad Al-Nouwairy were able to attend to take questions. Audience comments went from sharing an experience of heading to New York on 9/11, to a comment about the image the movie perpetuates [...]

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film week

the department of english language & literature presents
film weekfeaturing films from the gulf
12-16 november 2005, 7 pmabdullah al-otaibi bldg., basementkaifan campus, kuwait university
free admission

12 november 2005dreams without sleepdirected by walid al-awadikuwait, 2003, 90 minutesenglish
this documentary traces the lives of five new yorkers of diverse backgrounds immediately after the horrific events of 9/11. from his [...]

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I had to stop reading :)

Here I am here. How I have arrived in this place at this moment on this day with this feeling history future problems life this horrible fucked-up good-for-nothing waste of a life how. Fifteen minutes ago I was holding a lifelong Criminal and cocaine Addict who spent his childhood with his Father’s dick in his [...]

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We are family …

I got all my sisters with me … Ok so it was sisters, brothers, sons, etc, but you catch my drift.Today was a happy family day. We went to Kuwait Towers, my least favorite place in Kuwait, the followed it with Chocolate Bar, my most favorite When I go out with friends and family [...]

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Because they decided to start their holiday today …

So students at KU apparently have an agreement to miss their classes starting today. When asked, they told me it’s because it’s so close to the end of the month anyway and Eid is coming soon. They’d already told me Sunday that most of their teachers have decided to start their holiday Tuesday but I [...]

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