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Middle East Bloggers Meetup

by Haitham Sabbah January 4, 2005

Yes, you read that correctly. I’m organizing an annual Middle East Bloggers Meetup. Once I have the website ready I’ll announce it. Mean while all suggestions, ideas, concept, help, resources, etc… are welcome. Please leave your comments here so we all can share. I’ll update you on the technical side of the project ASAP.

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Bahrain Bloggers Meetup, Jan 06, 2005

by Haitham Sabbah January 3, 2005

Bahrain Bloggers Meetup is this weekend. The good news is that our members list have grown to 18 now. The bad news is that only 4 RSVPed: Yes. So come on guys, RSVP now. One more issue, I believe that most of you want to change the place we meet, so, any suggestions?

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Happy 2005!

by Haitham Sabbah January 1, 2005

New year, new look, same old good friends, and more to come…. Happy New Year everyone!

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Best Arab Blog Awards

by Haitham Sabbah December 31, 2004

In the spirit of an end to another year, people tend to review what has passed in order maybe to set up for what’s coming afresh, therefore Mahmood Al-Yousif and myself have decided to create an Arab-wide blog awards. We believe it is the first all encompassing award available in the Arab world at the [...]

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Study of Arabic in the US

by Haitham Sabbah December 26, 2004

Harry Levins of the St. Louis Post Dispatch has an interesting article on the lack of Arabic speakers in the US. He says that a little over 10,000 students are now studying Arabic. That is a big increase from the 1980s, when it was about 2500, or from the early 1990s, when it was about [...]

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2005 Present For All

by Haitham Sabbah December 19, 2004

January 1st, 2005, Mahmood Al-Yousif and Haitham Sabbah, prepared a present for all of you. Keep watching here, here, here and here. 12 days from now, you will get to know! As for now, you can start ranting and guessing :-)

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Happy National Day, Bahrain!

by Haitham Sabbah December 17, 2004

I had the honoer to participate in unfurling the world’s largest flag. The Bahraini Flag! The flag is a gift to His Majesty King Hamad and the people of Bahrain from MTC-Vodafone, which I proudly work for. The world’s largest flag – a red and white banner measuring 169.5 metres long and 97.1 metres wide. [...]

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Call to all lurkers

by Haitham Sabbah November 28, 2004

[Chan'ad Bahraini wrote] The second Bahrain Bloggers Meetup will be held this Thursday, so I’m writing this to encourage more of you to show up. As we’ve said before, you don’t have to have your own blog to join us. Everyone in the Bahrain online community is invited, which includes all of you anonymous [...]

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Olive Tree peace project

by Haitham Sabbah November 21, 2004

Via Guardian Blog: Two students – one Israeli and one Palestinian – are writing diaries for EducationGuardian.co.uk. They’re part of the Olive Tree peace project, which has funded 14 students from Israel and the occupied territories to live and study together in London. Education reporter Polly Curtis more about the project here: Yael Litmanovitz and [...]

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Bloggers Meetup!

by Haitham Sabbah October 18, 2004

Thanks Mahmood for spreading the word for the Bahrain Weblogger Meetup. I’m sure this is going to be fun and honor to meet with Bahrain blogger icons like you and Chan’ad. I encourage new members to this group to spread the word like you did either by a post or adding a link/icon which can [...]

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Fastlink Social Service

by Haitham Sabbah September 30, 2004

It’s good to hear that Fastlink scholarships are implemented. I know for sure that the aim of this project is not publicity, coz I was part of this project before I left Fastlink around one year ago. The reason behind it is simple. Fastlink pays tax just like any other private company. However, any social [...]

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