2007 Bloggie Awards!
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Nominations have opened for the 2007 Bloggie Awards (no, it’s not just another blog award*). Last year I was honored to be named a finalist in the “Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog” category, along with Baghdad Burning, Sleepless in Sudan, Mahmood’s Den and Subzero Blue. All terrific sites that I read regularly. The winner was Baghdad Burning!
Anyway, if you know my blog for days/weeks/months or even years now and you enjoyed reading it, then I’d greatly appreciate you nominating it in the categories of “Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog“. The Seventh Annual Weblog Awards will accept your 2007 nominations until January 10th. Just follow this link and the instructions therein, and I’ll be eternally grateful.
This year, I personally nominated two blogs beside my own, “Black Looks” (the African blog and winner of 2006 BOBs award) and “Desert Peace” (the Israeli blog).
Well, I’m not gonna beg to nominate Sabbah’s Blog 
other than to mention that in 2007 you can expect me to continue to bloviate on issues of the Middle East culture, activism, religion, and of course Politics.
*Wikipedia: The best known set of blog awards are the Bloggies, run by weblogger Nikolai Nolan. These awards are presented annually at the SXSW conference in Austin. Bloggies are voted on by the general public via a web-site. The awards cover thirty categories, including eight by region (Best British/Irish, Best American etc), seven by subject (politics, food, technology etc.) and awards for “Weblog of the Year” and “Lifetime achievement”. [Source: Wiki]
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10 Comments on “2007 Bloggie Awards!”
I am both honoured and humbled by your nomination Haitham…. Thank you.
Perusing through Google Earth, an excellent program that wastes lot of time if used at work, imagine my surprise when, looking over the Occupied territories and Syrian Jolan heights, I noticed several interesting things. Apart from the fact that somebody in Google is a hardcore closet Zionist that is. Firstly, Lake Tabarayah is firmly included within Israels border line (just about) and not included in what Google show as the Occupied Jolan heights. The Syrian border is at Lake Tabarayah, not behind it. Secondly, Jerusalem is written in its Hebrew pronunciation instead of its name al Quds and most surprisingly, is marked as the capital of Israel. I intend to follow this through with Google and have them mark that at least this information is disputable. If it is a careless error then no problem, but quite worrying if it is deliberate. If anybody knows the complaint e-mail address please let us know!
Wassim,
Although this is off-topic here, however, my personal experience with Google is not bad. Last time I contacted them about adding Palestine to the country list of blogger.com and they did, although it toke some muscles to do.
I did nominate you and Laila Al-Haddad (Raising Yousuf)… I think both of you are doing a great job for the Palestinian case… Good Luck!.
Thank you for the trust, Sami!
Very much appreciated
I disagree with your views Haitham, but I think you are a sincere and a nationalist… That I salute. Your blog nominated.
Iyad, your honest and trust is very much appreciated. Thank you for nominating my blog and happy new year to you and all your loved ones
nominating you is the least i can do … Allah eywf2ak Haitham
Thank you Mohammad. I really appreciate it