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If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Some Egyptian news roundup I found worth sharing:
* This is a New game that explores ancient Egypt.
* Some Americans says that Egyptian motifs are found throughout US culture, in [...]
A Lebanese nongovernmental organization, Helem (Arabic for ‘Dream‘), which fights for the rights of homosexuals, has recently begun publishing Barra (Arabic for ‘Out’), the first quarterly Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersexed and Queer magazine in the Arab world.
Kish BARRA w be3eed
The following is the full text of the draft constitution being voted on by Iraqis in Saturday’s referendum. It was translated from the Arabic by the United Nation’s Office for Constitutional Support, and the translation was approved by the Iraqi government.
Malawi has canceled a $30m fertilizer deal with a Saudi Arabian company with alleged links to al-Qaeda. Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe told parliament that the United States-based Citibank had refused to deal with the unnamed Saudi Arabian fertilizer firm because “they had al-Qaeda connections.”
hmm… a US bank controls Saudi economics?! If a US bank can [...]
[Cartoon: Mahjoob]
From right to left: Russian style, Samurai Style, French Style, and last the Syrian Style.
A woman in Britain is asking for a paternity test to determine whether her first daughter was fathered by the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. Friends of Janan Harb say that she had demanded a DNA sample from the Saudi Royal Family to find out if her daughter, Rania Boueiz, 30, a marketing executive [...]
A Syria-based rights group said that state authorities “made up” a scenario involving a distraught woman who claimed that she had been beaten in order to put pressure on a prominent human rights activist and lawyer -Anwar Al Bunni.” A woman threw herself on the ground at the Damascus high court shouting that she had [...]
Israel’s defense minister Shaul Mofaz has ordered the army’s top brass to appeal against a supreme court ruling last week that banned the military’s use of human shields. Mofaz is prepared to make a personal appeal for the ruling to be overturned, arguing that alternative methods in arrest operations such as more widespread use of [...]
The Arab Committee for the Defense of Journalists, received a large number of complaints from journalists and technicians working in Aljazeera TV station , saying that the Saudi Embassy in Doha-Qatar has been refusing to give them any kind of transit or entry visas , including entry visas for pilgrimage ; Haj and Umrra.
Despite embassy [...]
On the eve of the Jewish day of Atonement - Yom Kippur, I wish our Jewish readers a g’mar chatima tova and an easy fast.
BTW, I just realized that ‘Yom Kippur‘ is very similar to our Arabic words ‘Yom Kapper‘, both of which means the “The Great Day.”
Day after day, I believe that “we have [...]
Yahoo added blogs to its news search engine Tuesday so that blog links now appear next to news stories from major media web sites, further institutionalizing what was once mainly a grassroots publishing phenomenon.
The main page of Yahoo News Search now displays results with mainstream news media results on the left while blogs are displayed [...]
Funny how we intercept a letter from al Qaeda’s #2 man echoing the Bush line that they-can’t-cut-and-run line.
In a letter to his top deputy in Iraq, al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader says the U.S. “ran and left” in Vietnam and the jihadists must have a plan ready to fill the void if [...]
Yahoo! just released a podcast search engine.
Stevens, is among several people to offer alternative and generally discounted theories for the storm that flooded New Orleans. He says that a little-known oversight in physical laws makes it possible to create and control storms � especially if you’re armed with the Cold War-era weapon said to have been made by the Russians in [...]
Hugms connects to your mobile phone via Bluetooth and then when you squeeze it, is sends a “hug” text message to the person of your choosing.
Atlanta police found three explosive devices in a courtyard between two Georgia Tech dormitories on the East Campus. Police said the bombs were part of a “terrorist act.” One of the devices exploded.
Ok, this time they will tell us they spotted someone praying (a Muslim) at that spot before they found the bombs. Wait and [...]
According to the daughter of Saudi King Abdullah, it is only a matter of time before Saudi women join the Shura (consultative) council and they will also be able to drive in due course.
An American and an Israeli won the 2005 Nobel prize for economics on Monday for their work on “game theory,” which can help explain and resolve trade and business conflicts, and even play a role in avoiding war… Interesting. It would be nice to know if somebody already applied this theory somewhere.
Update: These two turned [...]
“[Islamic Extremists] … establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia”.
To all our Martyrs, past, present and future: Your Light cannot be extinguished. “Dedicated to my brothers and sisters in Resistance in Iraq and in the Arab Nation.” (Hat tip: Ritzy)
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