In the spirit of an end to another year, people tend to review what has passed in order maybe to set up for what’s coming afresh, therefore Mahmood Al-Yousif and myself have decided to create an Arab-wide blog awards. We believe it is the first all encompassing award available in the Arab world [...]

Bloggers at worldchanging.com , some of them living in the affected nations, began chattering immediately after the waves hit and began discussions of ways to help. South Asian bloggers created tsunamihelp.blogspot.com to direct people to aid organizations. “I haven’t seen this level of people saying, ‘You know what? We can do something here. We can [...]

It seems that the general ideological picture painted for Americans by their administration and conservative outlets is that the overall so-called war on terror is about the “civilized” world combating “barbarism,” a position Business Week recently voiced. This is historically and politically inaccurate, in terms of the scale and intensity of the crimes committed by [...]

I’m feed up with the huge number of comments that I have to deal with every day from spammers. I spend an average of an hour every day moderating, deleting, or reviewing awaiting approval comments, which some time reache hundreds.

Although your valid comments are 99% not affected by any of the anti-spam tools installed here, [...]

Harry Levins of the St. Louis Post Dispatch has an interesting article on the lack of Arabic speakers in the US. He says that a little over 10,000 students are now studying Arabic. That is a big increase from the 1980s, when it was about 2500, or from the early 1990s, when it was about [...]

First, let me wish all my Christian friends and bro’s a Merry Christmas. (Special wishes to Natsha)

Also, let me wish everyone a Happy New Year. Hope it brings a fresh hope and new resolutions to us all.

2005 holds a few challenges and everyone will be directly touched by his history and looking forward for [...]

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Tony Blair flew into Iraq yesterday, promising democracy. But, outside the ring of security that escorted him, another day of gruesome violence was unfolding - including a rocket attack on a US base in Mosul that claimed at least 24 lives.

And, against a backdrop of continuing carnage, [...]

Dione
Self-Heating Foods
Bus!
The Great White Shark
Wedding?
Sanswire Stratellite
Space Elevators Are Cool
Miss Artificial Beauty Contest

January 1st, 2005, Mahmood Al-Yousif and Haitham Sabbah, prepared a present for all of you. Keep watching here, here, here and here.
12 days from now, you will get to know!

As for now, you can start ranting and guessing

I don’t have much to say these days. But could not resist sharing these and these photos, plus what you will see here in this post.

Depressing enough to set and wonder for a while, what a stupid world we live in?

Very Romantic! Isn’t it?