May 2006

Spam Party

by Haitham Sabbah May 31, 2006

Ok, I’m crumbling with spam and my server is on its knees. Sorry if this is causing to slow the loading of the blog. For the last 4 days or so, the spam increased from average of one thousand per day to six thousand and the number is still increasing. I’m trying my best to [...]

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Sabbah in Colors!

by Haitham Sabbah May 29, 2006

Here is a cool online application. It analysis your website structure and transfer it to colors and displays them in nice graphical form.

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Arabisc: Arabic Bloggers Ken

by Haitham Sabbah May 27, 2006

The following is an abbreviated translation from some Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices! From Egypt… Malek who was scheduled to be free few days ago is now officially free. He just made his first post, titled: Free Morning. Malek writes: ???????? ?? ??????? ??? ????? ?? ????? ?????? ??????? ?????? ?? [...]

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Egypt Journalists Under Fire

by Haitham Sabbah May 26, 2006

Three journalists charged with defamation; three others assaulted, another abducted by mob; several journalists assaulted by authorities; five journalists’ detentions extended. [Source: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)]

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Samson Blinded: The Book of Israeli Terrorism Manual Banned by Yahoo, Google and Amazon

by Haitham Sabbah May 26, 2006

The question is why? I think because it shows and explains why Israel exists and what it has to do to keep on existing. Does Arab need Israel, and vice versa? Does anyone need peace? The answer to all these questions and a lot more, are not what you expect to hear. It�s not the [...]

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The Anti-Palestinian Act Passed

by Haitham Sabbah May 24, 2006

The Palestinian American Federation Press Release The Palestinian American Federation expresses its disappointment with the passing of HR4681, the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006. The vote count was 361 yeas, 37 nays, 9 presents (abstentions), and 25 not voting (Roll Call Vote No. 181). It is a sad day in the history of a country [...]

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Arabisc: Update on Detained Egyptian Bloggers

by Haitham Sabbah May 23, 2006

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Egyptian Arabic-language blogsphere. It was initially published at Global Voices! It’s been more than two weeks since the detention of Alaa along with many other bloggers and activists. Today we came to know about some good news related to some other detained Egyptian bloggers. Two [...]

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New Roadmap: The Italian-Japanese Version

by Haitham Sabbah May 23, 2006

Guess what could bring Italy, Japan, and the infamous (a.k.a. Bush) Palestinian/Israeli Roadmap, together? It is a full-page advertising about an (expensive) car by isuzu appeared in “Il Piccolo” (newspaper from Trieste, italy), on 16 may 2006 pag 22. Can’t find trace of this image in online publishing, even at www.isuzu.it. The advertising author/agency is [...]

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Arabisk – The Arabic Bloggers Ken

by Haitham Sabbah May 19, 2006

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere. It was initially published at Global Voices! Music… Amal, in her latest cartoon: “See my Wawa, kiss my Wawa.” The Wawa is the little tiny hurt “ouch”.. In this cartoon; a poor bleeding Palestinian child is begging from a wealthy Arabian man who [...]

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Haifa’s WaWa

by Haitham Sabbah May 17, 2006
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Internet use in Bahrain

by Haitham Sabbah May 16, 2006

Received an email requesting this: Thanks to an amazing website I recently happened across, I have created a survey on internet trends in Bahrain. I am interested in documenting internet access and uses in Bahrain. I am asking that this survey only be taken by people actually living in Bahrain. Your participation in this study [...]

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Today is the 58th anniversary of the Nakba, or the “Catastrophe”

by Haitham Sabbah May 15, 2006

Daily life in tents for 6,000 Palestinian residents of Nahr Al-Barid Refugee Camp in Tarablus, Lebanon, 1952. Today, the population of the camp is more than 40,000.. The following quotes are from Palestinain refegees (first generation and second generation) interviewed by IMEU to mark the 58th anneversary of Nakba-Catastrophe. Darwish Addassi wishes his fellow Americans [...]

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In remembrance of those living dead, called refugees

by Haitham Sabbah May 13, 2006

After 58 years of this man-made Catastrophe called Nakba, more than half of Israelis want their gov’t to “help” Palestinians emigrate out. As if Palestinian didn’t have enough, majority of the Israelis want us to go out, yet, we are asked to make peace with Israelis. The question is, which Israelis? The majority which wants [...]

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Who is searching for sex?

by Haitham Sabbah May 12, 2006

Here is another toy from Google. It is still sitting at Googles Labs, and they call it Google Trends. Fark recently featured the discovery under “obvious” tag, so I went to check it out, and guess what, I came out… blushing :-D Here is why. Go here and search for the word “sex” (don’t worry, [...]

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Sabbah Wrestling with WordPress

by Haitham Sabbah May 12, 2006

Ok, it’s time to upgrade my blogging system (wordpress). I’ve been running with WP 1.5.1 Alpha (not even beta) for ages now, and I’m tired of hacking the code, although it was fun, but now it seems that the honeymoon is over, and things are getting broken very often. Keeping in mind that since WP [...]

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