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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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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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Google-bombing for Alaa: Press Release

by Haitham Sabbah May 10, 2006

Bloggers Launch Innovative Campaign to Free One of Their Own For Immediate Release Contact: Mary Joyce (MaryCJoyce@gmail.com, Skype name: demoblogger) On Sunday May 7, Alaa Ahmed Seif El Islam, a prominent Egyptian blogger and political activist, was detained in Cairo by the Egyptian authorities while protesting the earlier detention of political activists rallying for a [...]

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Google-bombing action for Alaa

by Haitham Sabbah May 9, 2006

Ok, let’s do something productive. It is called “Google-bombing for Alaa.” Here is the deal: http://freealaa.blogspot.com/ A team of bloggers from all around the world are teaming up to create a special blog about Alaa’s detention. Then bloggers from all around the world are asked to link to this page using the text “Egypt”. (Due [...]

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Prominent Egyptian blogger arrested and several other activists

by Haitham Sabbah May 7, 2006

Listen to podcast: powered by ODEO Alaa Abd El-Fatah, one of the Egyptian political activists, and one of the first bloggers in Egypt was arrested today together with around ten more activists during a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with sixty activists who were arrested over the past two weeks in a non-violent sit in, as [...]

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Killing academics in Iraq

by Haitham Sabbah April 10, 2006

Mustansiriya University, Baghdad. Three years after Saddam’s statue collapse in Baghdad. While figures in daily reports confirms that civil war as a fact, and despite the Iraqi official denial of that, and despite Mubarak ‘stir of conflict’, universities and scientist suffer no less than any other civilians: A “campaign of violence” is being waged against [...]

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Arab nations suspicious of Bush’s “democracy”

by Haitham Sabbah December 3, 2005

In a recent poll conducted in six Arab countries in October, found 78 percent of respondents thought there was more terrorism because of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, with four out of five saying the war had brought less peace to the region: Asked which countries posed the biggest threat to their nations, [...]

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Saudi women score twice in first polls

by Haitham Sabbah November 30, 2005

Following up on my post few days ago, here comes the good news: Two Saudi businesswomen swept to an unprecedented victory in elections to the board of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday in the first polls in which women stood as candidates in the conservative Muslim kingdom.

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Saudi women throw their hats in the ring

by Haitham Sabbah November 26, 2005

17 women contesting alongside 54 male candidates for the first time in the history of Saudi Arabia. Women’s participation in the elections is expected to grab attention worldwide. Women members will vote today and tomorrow and businessmen will vote on Monday and Tuesday at the chamber’s Sheikh Ismail Abu Dawood Hall. Hmmm… separation here? What [...]

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Saudi Woman Can Vote!

by Haitham Sabbah August 7, 2005

Well, not all, but 600 of them :-) So, 600 Saudi women are expected to participate in the elections of the chamber of trade and industry in eastern Saudi Arabia for the first time. Way to go ladies, Good luck!

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Roll Over… This is Democracy of the West

by Haitham Sabbah March 10, 2005

In the west, you commit a crime, you don’t go to jail. In the East, you go to jail, even if you don’t commit a crime! Here are some examples: West: Have you heard of Bassim Chmait? He is dead. He was 20-yr-old college student. He was shot in the head by an off-duty Homeland [...]

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