About Abu Hatem
Writing by abuhatem on Sunday, 16 of December , 2007 at 5:01 am
This blog was set up with one central premise: self-criticism of the Arab condition by an Arab Muslim American.
Through commentating on the news and pointing out the strengths and weaknesses of both Arabs, Muslims, and Americans, I hope we Arabs and Arab Americans can improve ourselves.
Too many times I have seen ignorance, ethnocentrism, arrogance, self-righteousness, and racism blind Arab culture and lead to our decadence. Instead of a prideful and blind euphoric self-praise of the Arab peoples and criticism of all others, I will employ the unorthodox approach of telling-it-how-it-is and attempting to discover why the Arab world is behind and backwords.
If we do not learn from our mistakes and successes - as well as those of others - we can never achieve progress.
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Comment by David Durrett
Made Wednesday, 4 of June , 2008 at 11:50 am
Your post of June 4 included a reference to Barry Atwater, a very fine character actor who we apparently both admire. Thanks for giving him some publicity! It is Lee Atwater whom I think you meant.
