Aijaz Zaka Syed is the subject or is mentioned in the following stories:
View From Dubai: Medium and the Message
Syedna Ali, the last of the great Muslim caliphs, is noted for both his courage and timeless wisdom. In fact, theres a whole collection of his thoughts titled Nahjal Balagha ("Pinnacle of Eloquence").
View From Dubai: Attacking Pakistan? Don't Do It
Back home in the sub-continent, they say you should always stay away from the cops; their friendship as well as adversity is bad for ones health. I am reminded of the advice as the worlds chief cop, the United States, bombs its allies and friends in Pakistan. With friends like these, do you really need enemies?
View from Dubai: Benazir Bhutto's Revenge
After the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, her son Bilawal quoted her as saying: "Democracy is the best revenge."
View From Dubai: Cry, My Beloved Country!
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A friend and fellow Indian keeps warning me to lay off India and sub-continent issues. She has made a lifelong mission of speaking up for the voiceless but thinks the folks back home dont take kindly to anything critical in the foreign media.
View From Dubai: Lost War in Afghanistan
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- You dont have to be born in the West or be a Westerner to hate the Taliban. Most of us in the Middle East and the larger Muslim world have grown sick and tired of their extremist, truly bizarre ways and their absurd interpretation of Islam.
View From Dubai: Musharraf and Bush's War
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- What luck for rulers that men do not think, said Adolf Hitler. The Fuhrer should know. After all, he proved himself a successful, if rather reviled, leader of men and went on to conquer half of the world.
View from Dubai: Prisoner No. 650
Just when you think Uncle Sams war has no more surprises to spring on an unsuspecting world, he comes up with yet another gem. Take the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who grew up in the U.S. and went to top universities including the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
View From Dubai: Osama's War and Indian Muslims
When U.S. President George W. Bush visited India in 2006, a proud Prime Minister Manmohan Singh informed the "leader of the free world" that unlike in Pakistan and the rest of the world, there were no Indian Muslims in al-Qaida ranks.
View From Dubai: In the Land of Big Smiles
DUBAI, UAE -- To be greeted with folded hands is hardly unusual for people like me, born and bred in India, the land of namste. But the Thai greeting is vastly different from what one is used to in India. It is much more warm and gracious in nature.
View From Dubai: Justice for Darfur? Don't Forget Iraq
DUBAI, UAE -- Few issues have exercised me as much as the conflict in Darfur has. One hates to blow ones trumpet, but I have the dubious distinction of being the first journalist from the Middle East to break the silence on the genocide in Sudan.
