Results tagged “middleeast”

              

People around the world are protesting in reaction to last Friday's Iranian election results. In short, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected. Citing corrupted election results protesters assert that opposing candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi was the actual winner.

::HOME: The Aramco Brat's Story:: Tonight, River Oaks Theatre hosts the Houston screening of the feature length documentary, HOME: Aramco Brat's Story, a film depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as seen through the eyes of the Western expatriate children who grew up there between 1933 and present day. With all the attention given to the Middle East today, it is important that the Western public receives a complete picture in order that their...

Houston-area congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul will appear on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report tonight. Paul has quickly distinguished himself from other Republican candidates with his libertarian views and his now infamous exchange with Rudy Giuliani in a debate last month. Paul asserted that the 9/11 attacks were triggered by American involvement in the Middle East, to which Giuliani replied, "That's an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of September 11,...

What's Governor Perry doing in the Middle East? Lone Star Times has the scoop. His first order of business was to help dedicate a new Texas A&M University campus in Qatar. The campus takes up a sprawling 2,500 acres and is part of a deal between the Qatar Foundation and A&M to provide a full, four-year degree program in mechanical, electrical, chemical and petroleum engineering. We wonder if it'll make Qatar's top party schools list....

Start spreading the news: Emirates Airlines has chosen Houston Intercontinental as its second North American destination for direct flights to and from Dubai. Starting in early December, the flight will be Emirate's longest at a comfy 17 solid hours from the UAE to Houston. If you're looking for extremely luxurious living that's only a slightly longer commute than The Woodlands, this could be the beginnings of your next exurb. This news should also come...

Two Houston men have been charged with planning to join the Taliban to fight U.S.-led forces in the Middle East. Kobie Williams (a.k.a. Abdul Kabeer or Kabir) has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiring to aid the Taliban; Adnan Babar Mirza faces the same charge, plus three counts of illegal possession of a firearm. Williams is a Houstonian and UH-Downtown student who might have been working part-time in the engineering department at Rice...

Simple, quick (cooks in five minutes) and compliments chicken, pork or lamb dishes exceptionally well. Houstonist makes this simple grain dish often, usually with a grilled herb chicken (we'll give you that recipe - next time). Couscous is hearty, delicious and so easy to prepare in many different ways. Follow the link to see the recipe....

It's raining, it's pouring, so get out of the wet and join Houstonist in finding out what's doing in H-town for ten dollars or less.... Friday, July 28 Houston Shakespare Festival presents fantastic, professional productions of Shakespeare's masterworks at Miller Outdoor Theater in Hermann Park. Tonight, they present Titus Andronicus, an early and oft-misunderstood Shakespeare about lust, power, greed, revenge, and, oh right, gore. 8:30 pm. Free. (100 Concert Dr. in Hermann Park). Saturday, July...

Y'know, sometimes there's just not a nice way to say something, and this is one of those times: Young Americans, in general, are stupid. This doesn't have anything to do with our foreign policy or our infatuation with vapid celebrity couples — it's about a new National Geographic poll that shows we have no idea where the hell anything is. Among the findings of the poll, which surveyed 510 Americans between the ages of 18...

Houstonist loves photography — especially when it doesn't involve watching our relatives' slides of their trip to Omaha. So we get really excited when it's time for FotoFest, the biennial event that turns the city into an enormous photo gallery. FotoFest 2006, which opens tomorrow, has two themes: "The Earth" and "Artists Responding to Violence." "Artificial borders divide the Earth and determine its use. The pathways of human migration are altered as the need for...

Apparently, Hollywood is in a bit of a slump. Yes, it's quite a surprise. Everyone is looking for an excuse, be it Netflix or file sharing, but Houstonist has the answer: The movies are, by and large, kinda awful. According to Box Office Mojo, the top 10 box office draws include: Aeon Flux at No. 2, a movie so bad they didn't even screen it to critics; Yours, Mine, and Ours at No. 4,...