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Highest is everything!

Monday, February 25th, 2008

If you thought that Burj Dubai is the end of the “Arabian Dream”, you are mistaken.

The new race in the Arab World (to be particular, the Gulf region) is building the highest towers.

Few years ago, Dubai announced that they are going to spend few “Billions” of Dollars to build the highest tower in the world, [...]

Arab in Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

It’s time of the year for Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007. With all my reservations regarding Reporters Without Borders neutrality (having doubt after knowing that France is their financial supporter, although they are an NGO!), yet, their report was always a good indicator, if not the closest to reality - at least from my experiences [...]

Miss Bahrain, Miss Arab World 2007 and Stereotypes

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

I admit I have missed the news when it was announced end of last July, but better late than never.

Honored to be Bahraini by soul for living in Bahrain for the last four years, I am very happy to know that Wafaa Ganahi, a 23-year-old teacher from the Law Faculty of Bahrain University, won the [...]

Best Press Photo of the Year 2006

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

The results are out and I was not surprised to see that the images of the Zionist crimes are winning so many awards this year. First of all, the grand prize was selected by the international jury of the 50th annual World Press Photo Contest and it went to a color image of the [...]

Greenpeace seeks help in Kuwait, Qatar and UAE

Monday, February 5th, 2007

I don’t know how many of my friends around the Gulf received this alert from Greenpeace, however, here it is for the use of everyone: From: Hussein Fakih [hfakih@diala.greenpeace.org]
Date: Feb 4, 2007 10:20 PM
Subject: Greenpeace: opinion poll
To: [haitham.sabbah@gmail.com] Dear Mr Haitham Sabbah, I am an activist in Greenpeace (the international environmental independent organization). Greenpeace [...]

Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2006

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

In the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, in between 168 indexed countries, our beloved Arab countries makes sure to be among the worst.

Here is the list in order from “best” to “worst”:

Kuwait - 73
United Arab Emirates - 77
Mauritania - 77
Qatar - 80
Morocco - 97
Lebanon - 107
Jordan - 109
Bahrain - 111
Algeria - [...]

Arabisc: Sunni, Shia’, Peace, War, Israel, Palestine and Lebanon!

Friday, July 14th, 2006

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices…

The Blazing Middle East

Third day after the beginning of the never ending Middle East conflict; Israel/Lebanon war, the Arabic blogsphere speaks.

Ranging between anger, celebration, condemnation and support, on both sides of the conflict, the bloggers views vary [...]

Weblogs soar in Gulf states

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Few days ago, AFP interviewed me by email. Today, I was happy to find that the interview was published in few places.

First, here is Aljazeera version:

Weblogs soar in Gulf states

Internet blogs are giving rise to a new breed of Arab activist as ordinary residents increasingly use them to press for political rights and civil liberties [...]

Arabisc: Arabic Bloggers Ken

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices!

This week in the Arabic Language blogsphere:

Let’s start with the hard stuff. Tara from Iraq, has some rare seen images:

Tara then writes:

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Arabisc: Arabic Bloggers Ken

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

The following is an abbreviated translation from some Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices!

From Egypt… Malek who was scheduled to be free few days ago is now officially free. He just made his first post, titled: Free Morning. Malek writes:

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