Arab Spring Archive
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Syrian Artists for Freedom honored by OC pols
Posted on May 14, 2012 | 5 CommentsHundreds attended Sunday night’s concert to raise funds for victims of the Syrian regime’s brutal crack down on protesters that started fourteen months ago. The concert, held at the Grove... -
30 Seconds over Damascus?
Posted on March 6, 2012 | 1 CommentAs the experts might say: The situation is very fluid in Syria. The “Arab Spring” continues to bring chaos to many countries in the Middle East. For those of us not... -
OC Syrians support the revolution as events unfold
Posted on February 3, 2012 | 3 CommentsThirty years ago yesterday, the Syrian regime led by the late Hafez al-Assad, launched a bloody assault and leveled entire neighborhoods in the city of Hama in response to an... -
Anaheim’s Little Arabia: An Ethnic Enclave Seeks to Make it Official
Posted on January 29, 2012 | 10 Comments. . . . . A year after the Egyptian uprising began, I take a look with this Orange County Weekly cover story at how the Arab Spring has swept... -
Continued Crackdown in Syria Claims Relative of Anaheim Businessman
Posted on January 12, 2012 | No Comments. . . . . Arab League observers in Syria have issued an initial report recommending the continuation of their controversial mission assessing whether or not the regime of President... -
Occupy Wall Street – A Directionless Force
Posted on October 6, 2011 | 53 Comments. A friend of mine sent me this and I really liked the sentiment and want to pass it on to the noble readers of the juice: What’s going... -
Bachmann, Arab Spring, O’Reilly, Solyndra, and $16 Muffins.
Posted on October 3, 2011 | 6 Comments. . . WHAT IS TO BE DONE??? Couple of things I’ve noticed in an unusually TV-and-reading-filled week, that many people seem not to have noticed: Since fringe... -
Libyan Rebels Take Tripoli! But where is that freaky dictator?
Posted on August 22, 2011 | 19 Comments. . . We’d like to have the latest breaking news for you here on the newest triumphant chapter of the Arab Spring – the rebel takeover of Tripoli. All... -
Loretta Sanchez was wrong on H.R. 268, denying Palestine’s right to exist
Posted on August 8, 2011 | 5 Comments. . . In September 1947, after meetings with Zionist delegations in Palestine, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine recommended the partition in Palestine, a suggestion ratified by the... -
It’s finally here: The COFFEE Party, for fighting our TRUE oppressors!
Posted on April 19, 2011 | 7 Comments. . . I KNEW something new was happening, starting around last February, but I couldn’t put my finger on it – between the series of Arab Spring Rebellions and... -
OC Syrian-Americans divided over Syria’s revolution
Posted on April 17, 2011 | 7 Comments. . . Orange County’s Syrian-Americans are divided over the revolution in Syria. Several protests in front of the Syrian consulate in Newport Beach were held. Some against the regime... -
OC woman’s role in the Egyptian revolution – NOW with VIDEOS.
Posted on February 23, 2011 | 12 Comments. . . . . Costa Mesa-native Gigi Ibrahim, 24, the “free-spirited American” and “angry Egyptian” as she describes herself, played an instrumental role in the Egyptian revolution that toppled... -
Egyptian Revolution Celebrated in Anaheim!
Posted on February 15, 2011 | 9 Comments. . . . . A small but spirited crowd gathered on Saturday in Anaheim’s - unofficial but should be official – Little Arabia district to celebrate the people’s ouster... -
![. . . [Roqaya Ashmawey, the OJ's resident Egyptian blogress] They did it. They actually did it. The Yuppie kids at the American University of Cairo, the cab drivers, the...](http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/roqaya-155x155.jpg "Damn it feels good to be Egyptian!")
Damn it feels good to be Egyptian!
Posted on February 11, 2011 | 65 Comments. . . [Roqaya Ashmawey, the OJ's resident Egyptian blogress] They did it. They actually did it. The Yuppie kids at the American University of Cairo, the cab drivers, the...
