Category Archive for 'Libya'
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 [...]
Posted in Algeria, Arab, Bahrain, Blogging, Breaking News, Censorship, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Algeria, Arab, Bahrain, Egypt, Good News, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia | 52 Comments »
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Injection is the real-life story of six health care workers falsely accused and jailed by the Libyan regime, the deplorable conditions that all led to their arrest, and the simple solution that might have prevented not only this injustice, but millions of needless infections. In Libya in 1999, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian [...]
Posted in Libya, Video | 2 Comments »
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 - [...]
Posted in Algeria, Arab, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Media, Middle East, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen | 3 Comments »
Monday, March 27th, 2006
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Posted in Arab, Bahrain, Breaking News, Egypt, Failures, Good News, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Politics, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, UAE | 16 Comments »
Saturday, March 4th, 2006
This is a cross-posting. It was initially published at Global Voices in my (semi)-weekly translation post.
The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere.
This week, johacom was happy to find some cartoons by Arab cartoonist that depict some Official Arab Leaders. He says:
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Posted in Arab, Art, Cartoon, Culture, Freedom of Speech, Libya, Media, Middle East, Oman, Politics, Saudi Arabia, UAE | 3 Comments »
Thursday, December 15th, 2005
The United States has tied with Myanmar (the former Burma) for sixth place among countries that are holding the most journalists behind bars, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Each country is jailing five journalists. The United States is holding four Iraqi journalists in detention centers in Iraq and one [...]
Posted in Algeria, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Libya, Media, Morocco, Sabbah, Tunisia | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
WAN Press Freedom Report: The Arab World One of the Most Troubling Regions
The World Association of Newspapers’s press freedom review was presented to its Board, meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 14 November. The report states that the Middle East and North Africa is one of the most troubling regions in the world for press freedom, [...]
Posted in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Failures, Human Rights, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Media, Sabbah, Yemen | 2 Comments »
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Human Rights Watch released its long-awaited report on Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa. This report examines Internet trends and policies in the Middle East and North Africa region as they affect freedom of expression, focusing particularly on Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. Human Rights Watch selected these four countries for closer [...]
Posted in Bahrain, Bleeding Edge, Egypt, Good News, Human Rights, Internet 'n Computers, Libya, Regional, Sabbah, Syria, Tunisia, UAE | No Comments »
Saturday, November 5th, 2005
A Libyan court has sentenced, Abd al-Raziq al-Mansuri, an Internet journalist to one-and-a-half years in prison after he published articles critical of the government, Human Rights Watch said. The sentence is an apparent attempt by the government to silence free speech and dissenting views.
Abd al-Raziq wrote some 50 articles and commentaries critical of Libyan society [...]
Posted in Failures, Human Rights, Internet 'n Computers, Libya, Media, Politics, Sabbah | 1 Comment »