If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!After letters from Adalah-NY to Eight Stars, Leviev Removes Celebrity Photos
New York, NY, December 19, 2008 - Following complaints by at least four major Hollywood stars whose photos were [...]
At last, something worth the money spent:
Saudi supercomputer lures researchers
By Asma Alsharif
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A new science and technology university in Saudi Arabia will house one of the world's largest supercomputers and it is helping lure top researchers to the conservative desert state.
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is due [...]
This is just getting out of hand. Ridiculous…
A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.
Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.
The question of how much of her face a woman should cover [...]
The latest crime "in the name of social customs and religious rules."
A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged.
The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the [...]
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, [...]
On behalf of the Palestinian soccer fans and the Palestinian National Women Football team, I would like to congratulate the first Saudi female soccer team.
The first soccer match between female teams has taken place in Alkhobbar (Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province). The match was held between two teams of university students. The Prince Mohammad bin Fahd [...]
Today is a 'Blog Silence Day' to protest the imprisonment of Fouad Alfarhan.
Fouad Alfarhan is a Saudi blogger who uses his blog, alfarhan.org, to promote political reform and greater freedom of expression in Saudi Arabia. He was forced to stop blogging at the beginning of 2007 after being harassed by government officials, but then resumed [...]
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 [...]
Tagged Arab, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, freedom-of-pressI 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 [...]
One more brain fart by Saudi Mutaween:
Saudi Arabian religious police call for sex-segregated sidewalks - Saudi Arabia's religious police are insisting that authorities of Medina, one of Islam's holiest cities, should build separate sidewalks for women, the Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper said Friday.
The country's Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), [...]
Foreign observers of Israel tend to focus so intently on the dangers the country faces from its Arab neighbors that they have largely missed an astonishing story that has been accelerating over the past few months: that of the Jewish state’s possible move toward internal collapse. If you consider this an exaggeration, just take note [...]
Tagged Israel, Palestine, Peace, Saudi ArabiaSome of this is on the road to Kuwait (El Khafgi) where a whole family of 5 of one of our colleague's relatives passed away in an accident last week.
Tagged Bleeding Edge, Saudi ArabiaWhat is the most stupid thing you have seen in your life? If you think you have seen it all, think again!
The most irresponsible, stupid, … just name it…
Tagged Saudi Arabia, Too Much Free Time, VideosI read this story a week ago in the Arabic media, but when I saw today a different version of it in the English mainstream media, I found myself tempted to mention it for different reasons, which you will know about after you read the story:
A Saudi court has sentenced a gang rape victim to [...]
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 - [...]
