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Israel and the World Cup: Always Scores High

by Haitham Sabbah June 11, 2010

By Haitham Sabbah | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Congratulations to all football lovers, the countdown has finally come to end and now we can all watch the new edition of the World Cup. Football was always one of the few things that brings the world together. Well, everyone but Israel. It seems that Israel has [...]

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Gaza World Cup (May 1st until May 15th, 2010)

by Haitham Sabbah May 3, 2010

It seems that football fans might be able to do what Arab governments have miserably failed to achieve or even address: lifting the illegal inhuman Israeli siege off Gaza! Get involved! Efforts like the Gaza World Cup, as cliché as it sounds, are only as strong as those who choose to seize the opportunity and [...]

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Palestinians Make Football History

by Haitham Sabbah October 26, 2008

At last, Palestinians now have a new way to express their national pride – through soccer. The Palestinian team has existed for a decade, but until today the Palestinian squad played its “home games” in Arab countries, including Jordan and Qatar, although Palestine has been a FIFA member since 1998. The reason is simple: for [...]

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Israel’s great “humanitarian gesture”

by Haitham Sabbah April 9, 2008

Allowing two Gazans to train for Olympics in Jericho “In a rare move defined by Israeli authorities as a ‘humanitarian gesture’, officials decided to permit two members of the Palestinian Olympic team to cross the borders from Gaza and the West Bank in order to train in Jericho and Jerusalem, so that they can prepare [...]

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The first Saudi female soccer team, Congratulation!

by Haitham Sabbah January 25, 2008

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 [...]

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Canada: Muslim girl ejected from football because of hijab

by Haitham Sabbah March 5, 2007

[Via: altmuslim.com - by Zahed Amanullah] Eleven year old Asmahan Mansour was ejected from a soccer game in Quebec for wearing a hijab, despite being allowed everywhere else she played. In Gurinder Chadha’s 2002 film Bend it Like Beckham, the young, female, British Indian protagonist fought against the prejudice of her well-intentioned family to pursue [...]

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by Haitham Sabbah December 1, 2006

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Kick Arsenal Ball, OUT!

by Haitham Sabbah November 27, 2006

Sokari has the latest development about the English football club, Arsenal, deal with Israel. After the Israeli tourism ministry delayed the start of its advertising campaign with Arsenal for fear of receiving negative reactions due to the recent war on Lebanese, the 515,000 euros deal was announced. Arsenal’s managing director Keith Edelman said Israel would [...]

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‘The Da Vinci Code’ and Bahrain Traffic

by Haitham Sabbah July 12, 2006

It was pleasant to read a small news piece in al-Watan newspaper this morning, which states some figures about increasing numbers of visitors through King Fahd Causeway to the Kingdom of Bahrain during last June compared to the same period last month. The newspaper report that 316,757 car carrying 625,552 passengers passed the bridge between [...]

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Kuwaitis protest and say “KEFAYA”

by Haitham Sabbah June 12, 2005

I found this ironic. Is it the turn of Kuwait? (AFP) Around 200 Kuwaiti soccer fans called for the resignation of Kuwait Football Association officials after the national team’s poor form during their World Cup qualifying games. The protestors, standing outside the KFA offices, raised placards calling on members of the ruling al-Sabah family to [...]

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