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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 - [...]
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Tonight, Aljazeera will air a new episode of Kawalees (Backstage). I was told that it will review the activities of The 2nd Aljazeera Forum, including blogging and the ‘citizen media’.
Among the guest whom I know were interviewed and probably clips will be aired; Ethan Zuckerman - Co-Fonder of Global Voices Online, Shaden Abdul Rahman - [...]
This is the first post of few I’m going to write about The 2nd Aljazeera Forum - 2006.
Now that I’m back from Doha after attending The 2nd Aljazeera Forum, and after swallowing all the sweet and the bitter of such a huge gathering, I can share with you some of my views and conclusion.
Three [...]
Moblogging (Photos) will fireup this blog again, starting from tomorrow. Blogging will be light for the next few days and this is due to my travel to Qatar to participate in the 2nd annual Aljazeera Forum (Arabic), which this year has the theme “Defending Freedom, Defining Responsibility.”
I’ll be one of the panelists at the Forum. [...]
In the wake of Boris Johnson, Blairwatch and many other bloggers have put themselves down as being prepared to publish the ‘Bush-Blair Al Jazeera memo’ should it become available.
To join the growing call for disclosure and internet publication visit Blairwatch here, and get “I�ll publish the al Jazeera memo” button from here.
On [...]
Finally, the international workshop to protect the rights of migrant workers was held in Bahrain.
I say finally because this workshop was not allowed to take place in all Gulf countries, until General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions (GFBTU) decided to partner with the International Federation of Free Unions, the International [...]
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