About Me!
BY Ben Heine
Haitham Sabbah is a Palestinian who was born the 2nd of April 1969 in Kuwait and has also lived in Jordan. He studied electronics and communication engineering at Birla Institute of Technology - India.
He is employed as a senior manager at Zain Bahrain - part of a leading global telecommunication company - and is a professional blogger during his personal time.
Haitham is one of the founders of the blogosphere in the Middle East and continues to be one of the most famous bloggers there. He is a well known online activist and his writing covers the Palestine/Israel conflict, Human Rights, Culture and Religious issues in the Middle East.
He has participated in several conferences and workshops related to blogging in the Middle East and his blog has received several awards over its years of existence (2000 - present). He has also participated in many blogging and Web 2.0 projects, some of which are well known references today such as Palestine Blogs Aggregator: http://PalestineBlogs.org and Global Voices Online: http://globalvoicesonline.org
You can see samples of his work at his Sabbah’s Blog: http://sabbah.biz
Why do I blog?
The main reason that made me start blogging was my disappointment of what I used to find in the main stream media about the Middle East and how it is presented to the world online, TV and newspaper. I find the international media in general to be biased and censored and does not reflect the truth about Arab nation culture, religion and politics. Another reason (which is related to the first) is the weak media of the Arab world, direct towards non-Arab and non-Muslims.
I blog because I want to correct the wrong perception about my nation and to present the facts which are hidden (by design) from being presented to West, specially when it comes to Israeli occupation of Palestine and the truth about what is terrorism and what is resistance.
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