October 2005

Halloween 2005 in Bahrain

by Haitham Sabbah October 31, 2005

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

Global public Intellectuals Poll

by Haitham Sabbah October 31, 2005

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. [...]

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Arabic Teachers Needs Arabic Teaching

by Haitham Sabbah October 29, 2005

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 [...]

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Flock!

by Haitham Sabbah October 29, 2005

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

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Fox News!

by Haitham Sabbah October 29, 2005

If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History… Hilarious!

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Terrorism Threat in Morocco

by Haitham Sabbah October 29, 2005

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 ï¿½jihad on the government of disbelieving and oppression,ï¿½ for the heads of government have allegedly ï¿½sold the country to the infidels after they cleared the area from the real [...]

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Saudi Arabia: 14-Year-Old Boy Faces Execution

by Haitham Sabbah October 28, 2005

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 Walaï¿½ `Adil `Abd al-Badi` in Dammam in [...]

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An Eye for an Eye and a Tit for Tat Attacks

by Haitham Sabbah October 28, 2005

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 [...]

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RSF activists protest outside Algerian embassy in Paris

by Haitham Sabbah October 28, 2005

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 Benchicouï¿½s 500th day in prison.

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Sabbah in the Spanish Media

by Haitham Sabbah October 27, 2005

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 [...]

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Mr. Bush, This Is Pro-Life?

by Haitham Sabbah October 26, 2005

If only President Bush could see the results of withholding funds from the U.N. Population Fund. Somewhere in the world, a pregnant woman dies like that about once a minute, often leaving a handful of orphans behind. Call me naï¿½ve, but I think that if Mr. Bush came here and saw women dying as a [...]

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Once Again, The American Public Wises Up Too Late

by Haitham Sabbah October 26, 2005

NOW they get it!… A new Harris Poll published in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, gives Bush’s negative rating stands at 66% for his handling of events in Iraq, the lowest of his presidency, and for the first time, a majority (53%) of adults feel that military action in Iraq was the wrong thing to do. [...]

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Japan to finance renovation of PA’s Muqata headquarters in Ramallah

by Haitham Sabbah October 26, 2005

People Daily Online: Japan will finance the rebuilding of Muqata with an undisclosed amount under coordination between the The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on renovating Muqata, Palestinian presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas Office Director said, “We need a new headquarters for the president, where [...]

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Protest action against the Nobel Prize for Prof. Aumann and Thomas Schelling

by Haitham Sabbah October 26, 2005

Please sign the statement at: http://www.sd-il.com/politics/campaigns/signStatement.php?cid=2 A large number of signatures can be influential Enclosed is also a sample protest letter by the Israeli peace and anti nuclear activist Gideon Spiro. The 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics To The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: We, the undersigned, protest your decision to award the 2005 Nobel [...]

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Blogger in Jail

by Haitham Sabbah October 25, 2005

Blogger Seyyed Ahmad Seyyed Seraji has lost his appeal and is now to serve 18 months of jail (and receive 30 lashes), on charges of attempting to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran and insulting the Supreme Leader, Shahram Kholdi reports.

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