Podcast

It’s Open War

by Haitham Sabbah July 14, 2006

Nasrallah Declare ‘Open War’. Listen to podcast: powered by ODEO Hezbollah destroys an Israeli warship off the coast of Beirut, less than hour after el-Sayed Hassan Nasrallah declared “open war” on Israel. Reports and eyewitness are reporting that the navy vessel was hit but two missiles and is now sending SOS. Nasrallah said: To Israelis [...]

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Children Political Prisonors at Israeli Terrorist Jails

by Haitham Sabbah July 6, 2006

Audio Interview: Palestinian Children in Israeli Jails Stefan Christoff, The Electronic Intifada, 20 May 2006. [Hat tip: Robin] Listen to an interview with Ayed Abu Eqtaish, a child rights activist from Defense for Children International [Palestine Section] and Adam Hanieh of Sumoud, a political prisoner solidarity group based in Toronto. This interview was recorded during [...]

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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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The al-Jazeera Effect

by Haitham Sabbah February 9, 2006

Listen to podcast: powered by ODEO If anyone is interested, you can hear my interview with Radio Open Source on tonight show, The al-Jazeera Effect. The show will be on air at midnight GMT, which is too late for me to be on live (3:00 am – local Bahrain time). My host – Chris Lydon [...]

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Call to End World War – Final

by Haitham Sabbah February 5, 2006

First, let’s read the news in the last few days again: The drawings have touched a raw nerve in part because Islamic law is interpreted to forbid any depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Indonesian Muslims went on a rampage inside the lobby of a Jakarta building housing the Danish embassy on Friday in protest over [...]

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Freedom of Racism!

by Haitham Sabbah January 11, 2006

Norwegian magazine has published the Prophet cartoons: A Norwegian Christian magazine has published a set of controversial caricatures of the prophet Mohammed after months of uproar in the Muslim world over a Danish paper’s decision to print the same cartoons. Repeating a move by conservative Danish paper Jyllands-Posten last September, Magazinet published the controversial drawings [...]

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Tonight on ‘World Have Your Say’ – BBC

by Haitham Sabbah December 30, 2005

Tonight is the last BBC World Have Your Say programme for the year. Debora and I will be on air later at the show. I we’ll be talking about blogging in the Middle East and the most memorable moments in 2005. This will be my second interview with Have Your Say team in less than [...]

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