A few words about the name "adilbookz": The first part of it — "adil" — is a Muslim name that incorporates the concept of justice. It's a name I unofficially acquired in late 1985 or early 1986, when a friend at the local Islamic Center suggested I adopt a name I could be known by when I visited the center.
   I said, "Find me a name that expresses my concern about Palestine," and a few days later he came back with "Adil", which I accepted without hesitation. It was the name I went to Makkah under in 1990, and is the name that Muslims have always known me by — except when I flew from Jeddah to Madinah. On looking at my boarding pass, I noticed that I had mysteriously become a Mr F. Ahmed for a couple of days. The "bookz" part of the name came in 2000, shortly after I bought a computer and went online. To log into the discussion forum at arabia.com, I had to have a username. "Adil," I found, had already been taken, so I tacked on "bookz" to reflect my intention to enter the secondhand book business — and also to convey an impression of profound erudition in my debates with a particularly unpleasant character who went by the name of Big Mouth, who was possibly an agent provocateur. One thing led to another, and within a matter of months "adilbookz" had become my internet identity, a nom de guerre for cyberspace. When I last checked Google, it had 762 results for a search for the name. — Alan Ireland, PO Box 2052, Palmerston North 4440, New Zealand

alanireland.com

This is the site to go to for a comprehensive list of my domains, subdomains, blogs, articles and money-making schemes that have actually paid me (albeit modest sums). You will also find my collection of poems, Unlike Other Boys, there. To go to alanireland.com, click here. The poems are here.

islamnz.com

This site includes A Record of Islam in New Zealand, Gallipoli: Compassion on the Battlefield (also in Turkish), At Daggers Drawn: Murray Dixon and the Specter of Christian Zionism, and Palestine Gallery. Click here to enter.