Mehammed Mack

Jobless in Gaza

Mehammed Mack
A somber note for many Gazans witnessing the Israeli pullout was the prospect of losing jobs. Al-Jazeera profiled the closure of one of the last remaining monuments of Oslo-era cooperation, the Erez industrial park, a multidisciplinary Gaza manufacturing facility that had employed more than 4,000 Arab workers. One of the......

Bringing Over There Closer to Home

Mehammed Mack
Photo by David Hume KennerlyAlthough the ubiquitous billboards for FX’s new series Over There might remind you of superinspirational Army recruitment ads, the show itself probably won’t solve the Army’s current recruitment slump, despite making the highest-rated debut in the network’s history last week. Focusing on an eight-person unit of......

¡Olé! Allah!

Mehammed Mack
While the rest of America sleeps, a group of Middle Eastern men of terrorist age gather in an underground location. Brawny, hirsute and looking like your average brooding, unemployed, Cairo-café mint-tea drinker, they are plotting a takeover — of the dance floor, that is. “Habibi Yalla!”As the beat kicks in,......