Muntadar Al Zeidi

Artist Creates Tribute To Bush Shoe Thrower

New York Post | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics


Iraqis have literally given former President Bush the boot. A sofa-sized shoe monument was unveiled today in Tikrit - the hometown of the former Iraq...

Iraq Shoe Thrower, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, Wants Pardon According To Prime Minister's Spokesman

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 01.18.2009 | World


From AP A spokesman for Iraq's prime minister says the journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush has asked for a pardon. Spokesman Y...

Muntadhar al-Zeidi: Who Is The Bush Shoe-Thrower?

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 01.16.2009 | World


* Scroll down for slideshow, video An Iraqi journalist, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who threw his shoes at President Bush and has been hailed as a hero acros...

Democracy in a Size 10

Giles Slade | Posted 01.15.2009 | World


Giles Slade

The point of throwing or even showing the underside of a shoe to an enemy is a not-so-subtle Arabism: shoes are attached to the lowest part of a man, they trail in the dirt.