Category Archive for 'Morocco'
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 | 51 Comments »
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Iran is the latest country to sign up to “wall building” borders - in this case along the Iranian Pakistan border in the Baluchistan region. Iran’s justification for the wall is a familiar one. To prevent smuggling of drugs and guns and movement of illegal immigrants.
Whilst the Apartheid wall being built by [...]
Posted in Guest Blogger, Israel, Morocco, Palestine, USA | 8 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 »
Friday, June 16th, 2006
The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices…
Arabic language and the Internet…
Marwan, from Subzero Blue blog, writes in his Arabic blog about the new Google News service in Arabic. He seems have found something we all have missed for long time. Marwan writes:
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Posted in Arab, Bleeding Edge, Blogging, Cartoon, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Internet 'n Computers, Media, Middle East, Morocco, Palestine, UAE | 55 Comments »
Monday, April 24th, 2006
It’s been a while since I posted because of several reasons, however, this one email I received ten days ago, I promised the sender (Mounira) to publish her email as soon as I’m back and get a chance to do so.
It’s one of the rare-to-discuss-subjects. Maybe because we don’t have enough info about it (like [...]
Posted in Arab, Middle East, Morocco | 8 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 »
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
According to the annual report of the Arab Economic Unity Council, the Arab GDP is improving.
Her is the summery:
Arab gross domestic product reached $860 billion in 2004 compared to 746.1 billion the year before.
GDP growth ranged between 1.2 and 6.5 per cent while the GDP per capita rose to $2879 in 2004, compared to 2572 [...]
Posted in Algeria, Bahrain, Business, Egypt, Good News, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia | 1 Comment »
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 »
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
In a recent poll conducted in six Arab countries in October, found 78 percent of respondents thought there was more terrorism because of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, with four out of five saying the war had brought less peace to the region:
Asked which countries posed the biggest threat to their nations, a [...]
Posted in Arab, Democracy, Egypt, Good News, Human Rights, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Morocco, Politics, Regional, Sabbah, Saudi Arabia, UAE | No Comments »