A Mid East Twist on the ‘What came first, the Chicken or the Egg’ old-Adage?

By Gerald Honigman

There’s an old-adage regarding the hypothetical question about what really was responsible for a problem or a series of problems, one particular thing or another…

“What came first, the chicken or the egg?”

Keep this in mind as we progress…

A few decades ago, the late wonderful Pakistani Muslim publisher, Tashbih Sayyed, found my published material on his own.

He fled Lahore and settled in California, and one day, from “out of the blue,” I received a call from him.

He introduced himself, and from then on proceeded to publish dozens of my analyses and articles in his hard copy print newspapers, Muslim World Today and Pakistan Today, permitting my perspectives to reach numerous thousands of readers my work didn’t reach before. Dr. Daniel Pipes’s and Steve Emerson’s work were included as well.

And Tashbih showcased these analyses unabashedly. No wonder he fled Pakistan under the rule of strict, intolerant, Muslim clerics and autocratic authorities.

When he passed away, unfortunately, the world lost a voice of reason and tolerance. He definitely was one of the “good guys,” and it’s a shame he didn’t live to see the creation of the Abraham Accords, and both Israel and America taking care of business with the megalomaniac, genocidal mullahs of Iran whom he openly despised.

https://tinyurl.com/n36p4su9

We were to co-author an impeccably researched and sourced book, but his passing pained me, and I proceeded to do this myself…. http://q4j-middle-east.com

It’s been acquired and in active use in dozens of universities and other institutions of higher learning all around the globe.

The Abraham Accord’s United Arab Emirates is the latest to pick it up for use in its main educational library system, and Georgetown, the American University of Beirut, Cornell, Kobe University, NYU, Paris’s acclaimed Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), are some of many other examples of schools which have acquired my various published materials.

Besides Tashbih’s hard copy newspaper op-ed, here’s a few other additional versions of the first article he featured of mine in Pakistan Today in this widely distributed weekly hard copy newspaper, “The Chicken or the Egg?”…

https://tinyurl.com/2k3xy5bb
Israel National News:

https://share.google/hmt1zgs6bZVTo0neZ

And lastly, here’s an updated version in the Kurdish media mentioning Tashbih Sayyed’s original publication of it :

https://share.google/ND811BTYOoMPLi8EW

March 27, 2026 | Comments »

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