Hannibal TV

Tunisia’s first private TV company doesn’t seem to have any elephants. (Via Karim)

Anti-Americanism and self-censorship in the German media

It would be interesting to run a similar study here to this one by Ray D. Many Spanish journalists and even more columnists accept the old socialist-fascist consensus that the US and its friends deserve all that can be thrown and flown at them, but many others are often unaccountably silent.

Why Spanish imperialism failed

The Spanish didn’t realise the importance of enforcing pidgins and creoles, says noted scholar, Cornelius DuBois, over at Speculative Grammarian.

Moorish scientist

No, not Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi. I’m talking about Noble Drew Ali, prophet of possibly “the only religion ever to be founded in Newark, NJ”, Moorish Science. Although his early career as a magician in a gypsy troupe took him to Egypt and conversations with a high priest, I don’t think he ever went to Morocco,…