Mission

This site will focus on making the news clearer to both Americans and Arabs. We will analyze the news and as much as we can, we will say why this media outlet or person said what they said or what they should have said or done instead. We will clear the misunderstandings that happen daily because we do not understand each others' culture and psychology. We will analyze the psychology behind the behavior or the news. Basically, we will strip the news to its smallest component and run a root cause analysis to get to the bottom line. Although the focus will be on open source news that affect both Arab and American audiences, nevertheless, we might analyze any piece of information from anywhere in the world. I will provide two simple examples from both the US and the Arab world on how news could have been better and smarter if put in its right cultural and psychological perspective. Both the New York Times and The Washington Post, two of the most respected newspapers in the US, kept referring to the former Iraqi president as Hussein, in their headlines. In fact no one in the Middle East or in Iraq ever referred to the former president as Hussein, but as Saddam. This , some might say, is a ridicules example, but it's not. It's so small but important in its dimension. Elakhbar, an Egyptian newspaper, put a cartoon the other day for a man, clearly a western or American from the way the cartoonist drown it, telling a friend that” he is going to Egypt to buy few votes in the upcoming presidential elections because he heard that in Egypt you can bought some people” this cartoon is a stereotypical of how the Arab establishment in general and not only in Egypt have injected the people of ideas that the west is out to get them. A little background here, Elakhbar considers that anyone or most candidates who will or might run against president Mubarak of Egypt are either traitors or easy for the west to buy. Moreover, it’s the fear factor that the political politburo in the Middle East have injected its people with against the west in particular.Now, hear this: fanatics are in part a product of that environment that I have just mentioned above. They are born hearing all sorts of stuff against the west, in government run TVs, papers, schools, movies, etc. When those brain washed individuals go out and commit crimes against humanities, Arab governments look around and wonder what happened?