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Dubai was the center of attention again last week as it spent $20 million on an exorbitantly lavish, all-night party to celebrate the opening of its [...]
Even as the Burj Dubai, touted to become the world's tallest building nears completion, plans have been announced for a new kilometre-high tower in Dubai – UAE. The project, inspired by Islamic design and geometry, will be located at the upcoming New Dubai development area near Jebel Ali.
Tagged 1 km, Dubai, kilometre-high, Nakheel Harbour, one km, towerIn order to obtain a certificate of good conduct from Israel and her guardian-ally, the United States, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) is betraying the very people it claims to represent and its enduring national cause in ways unprecedented in living memory.
This scandalous betrayal assumes many forms, including brazen "security coordination" with the [...]
I fell off my chair laughing and could not believe my eyes when I saw this funny picture:
Don't you just feel like doing it…. NOW :)
Well, this is not the first time I come across some of this "art". It actually reminds me of a Belgian one few years ago. This website report from Brussels [...]
This is what starvation means (for some) in the Arab world!
Now you know why half the world is starving! :-)
Tagged Arab, Arabia, Poverty, StarvationOne of the traits of eating FALAFEL is the possibility of getting blacklisted in America or worse accused of being a terrorist.
This news story revealed that the FBI planed to use records from San Francisco grocery stores to spot terrorists; they believed that a spike in falafel sales would lead them to secret Iranian agents.
Like [...]
"The revelation that lobbying firm Barbour, Griffith and Rogers, whose president is a former US envoy to Iraq, is supporting former interim prime minister Ayad Alllawi, was first reported by IraqSlogger. The firm has sent hundreds of e-mails in Allawi's name from an e-mail address it purchased, DrAyadAllawi@Allawi-for-Iraq.com, and it has purchased the Web domain [...]
Tagged Allawi, Iraq, News You Can Do Without, USA, ZionismWhile watching the news last night, a breaking live broadcast of Bush speech in Prague was on air. I never liked to hear this dump, but for unknown reason I decided to listen to his remarks.
While listening to him, I was speaking to myself. This is how it goes (transcript can be found here):
The most [...]
Tagged bush, Democracy, News You Can Do Without, Palestine, Politics, USAIn the U.S., the issue is framed as "Immigration"
The face of the issue is framed as a brown skinned Mexican man.
And yet, all you have to do is scrape just a little under the surface to know what immigration really means and who it effects.
750+ Immigrants Detained in "Operation Return To Sender" Raids
Immigrant youth shelter [...]
This ironic one comes from the infamous Fox News: An American occupier in Iraq had a simple request last week for a Wisconsin mattress company: "send some floor mats to help ease the hardship of sleeping on the cold, bug-infested ground."
What he got, instead, was a swift kick from the company's Web site, which not [...]
I feel sick to my stomach when I see a multi-billion giant like Microsoft using “children refugees†as a cover up to market their latest web 2.0 businesses called live.com!
While doing my search for my previous story, I came across a press release by UNHCR which said: “Microsoft launches “Click for Cause†initiative to support [...]
This article is in response to the question posted by a new site just launched today – Love to Lead – where:
Each week for the next 16 weeks L2L will pose a question designed to stimulate debate between bloggers. Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite article and the blogger whose post receives [...]
I'm in a business trip at Sharm El-Sheikh for the last two days and will be back home in few days.
Stay tuned!
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I read this story a week ago in the Arabic media, but when I saw today a different version of it in the English mainstream media, I found myself tempted to mention it for different reasons, which you will know about after you read the story:
A Saudi court has sentenced a gang rape victim to [...]
