My kids having a great Halloween night along with our neighborhood gang!

So who won the Prospect/FP Global public intellectuals poll? It’s Noam Chomsky, with amazing 4827 votes out of the 20,000 people voted for their top five names from a longlist of 100.

Shirin Ebadi - the Iranian human rights and democracy activist, and a lawyer - who was awarded 2003’s Nobel Peace Prize, came 12th. [...]

I could not resist but blog this.

Background:
Nooreldin (my eldest son), is now in Grade II. He goes to a private English school, which obviously teaches everything in English, except Arabic and Islamic are in Arabic of course.

Anyway, tonight he was studying for his tomorrow Arabic exam. He came across a word he wrote in his [...]

And I’m now FLOCKing. And with Akismet, WordPress.com is up to something… Nice!

If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History… Hilarious!

Foulla writes that Al-Salafiyah al-Jihadiyah in Morocco Declares Jihad on the Moroccan Government. They issued a statement, declaring that the time has come to announce the �jihad on the government of disbelieving and oppression,� for the heads of government have allegedly �sold the country to the infidels after they cleared the area from the real [...]

A 14-year-old Egyptian boy faces execution in Saudi Arabia after a flawed trial in which he was convicted for the murder of another child, Human Rights Watch said today.

Following a seriously flawed trial, Ahmad al-D. was sentenced to death in July for the murder of three-year old Wala� `Adil `Abd al-Badi` in Dammam in April [...]

But whose eye, and whose tat was it first?

Oct. 24: A few hours after its troops killed three Palestinians, including a senior Islamic Jihad leader (Louai Saadi, overall commander of the Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades in the West Bank), an international envoy blasted Israel for foot-dragging on opening Gaza Strip border crossings following its withdrawal. [...]

Unfurling banners and handing out leaflets, a score of Reporters Without Borders activists demonstrated outside the Algerian embassy in Paris today to mark Algerian newspaper editor Mohamed Benchicou�s 500th day in prison.

This time Spanish newspaper. Lali Sandiumenge writes at “Avui” means “Today” in Catalan, the language that they speak in North-East of Spain (Catalonia). Lali told me that this newspaper is the main newspaper written in Catalan in Barcelona.

Here is the full interview transcript, part of which was published in last Sunday edition beside other parts [...]