I'm planning a June trip to the Middle East, for purposes of studying technoculture. Mmmm, lovely 115 degrees weather you have here!

I have my timeframe, and my agenda. But I don't yet have my desination. Qatar? Bahrain? Dubai (UAE)? Lebanon? For my first solo adult foray into the Middle East, I'm leaning towards the more secular, developed locations. Once I plan my nations, roughly, then I can assemble a list of places and people to drop in on.

In the meantime, I'm very much enjoying The Religious Policeman, a weblog published from within Saudi Arabia, over an illegal satellite connection. The author, in perfect English with witty sensibilities, writes about the strain of living in a punitive postmodern absurdistic theocracy.