December 2004

Best Arab Blog Awards

by Haitham Sabbah December 31, 2004

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 at the [...]

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Earthquake/Tsunami Aid Blog

by Haitham Sabbah December 30, 2004

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 [...]

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Criminal Powerful States: Civilization vs. Barbarism

by Haitham Sabbah December 29, 2004

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 [...]

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Extra Anti SPAM Measures

by Haitham Sabbah December 28, 2004

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 [...]

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Study of Arabic in the US

by Haitham Sabbah December 26, 2004

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 [...]

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What’s Your 2005 Predictions?

by Haitham Sabbah December 24, 2004

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 [...]

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10 More Years

by Haitham Sabbah December 22, 2004

[Quote:] 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, The Independent has learned a cross-party [...]

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Latest reBlogs

by Haitham Sabbah December 21, 2004

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

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2005 Present For All

by Haitham Sabbah December 19, 2004

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 :-)

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Welcome to Kabul Studio

by Haitham Sabbah December 19, 2004

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?

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Jordanian Marriage

by Haitham Sabbah December 19, 2004

What can I say!!?

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Afghan War Rugs

by Haitham Sabbah December 19, 2004
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Happy National Day, Bahrain!

by Haitham Sabbah December 17, 2004

I had the honoer to participate in unfurling the world’s largest flag. The Bahraini Flag! The flag is a gift to His Majesty King Hamad and the people of Bahrain from MTC-Vodafone, which I proudly work for. The world’s largest flag – a red and white banner measuring 169.5 metres long and 97.1 metres wide. [...]

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How To Install An A/C In Cairo !!!

by Haitham Sabbah December 14, 2004

Yet another one :-)

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Cold Water In Cairo

by Haitham Sabbah December 14, 2004

You can see these only in Cairo!

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