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Sabbah in the Spanish Media

by Haitham Sabbah October 27, 2005

This time Spanish newspaper. Lali Sandiumenge writes at “Avui” means “Today” in Catalan, the language that they speak in North-East of Spain (Catalonia). Lali told me that this newspaper is the main newspaper written in Catalan in Barcelona. Here is the full interview transcript, part of which was published in last Sunday edition beside other [...]

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Blogging in the Arab World

by Haitham Sabbah October 6, 2005

So, I’m again in the news. This time it was Italian media. Following is the transcript of my interview with Paola Caridi – a journalist who lives and works in the Middle East as a correspondent of Lettera22, an Italian news agency which collaborates with the leading national weeklies and dailies. So here you go: [...]

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Sabbah Live on BBC

by Haitham Sabbah June 6, 2005

Update: Rescheduled. The Arab Bloggers interviews was rescheduled to some other day. This is what I was told by the coordinator, two hours before the kick off of the program. Today was a special “day for Iraq” and they dedicated most of the program for interviews from Iraq. Once I get the reschedule I will [...]

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My ‘BBC Arabic World Service’ Interview

by Haitham Sabbah May 29, 2005

I forgot to mentioned that I was interviewed by BBC Arabic World Service a couple of days ago. As I understood, the interview was for a new program called BBC Xtra and it was about Arab Bloggers and Blogging in the Arab world. Basically we talked about my own experience, why I blog, how and [...]

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Extra Navigation

by Haitham Sabbah April 15, 2005

Looks at the navagation link at the Top of the page. Mobile is a SB Mobile Edition. Cat./Archive is an archive links by WEIGHT, beside the other normal archive structure (by subject and by month). For Feeds links click RSS/XML/Atom. Last but not least, Palestine Blogs Feed is still live under PB News link. Enjoy [...]

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Updated – Arablog.net: Once again in the media!

by Haitham Sabbah March 7, 2005

In an interview (in Arabic) with our Jordanian blogger friend, Ammar with ‘Ammannet’ (Amman Network Radio), the interview distinguished the work done by Jordanian bloggers in projects such as JordanPlanet.net, Arablogger.com and Arablog.net. Here is some Excerpt from the interview script (in Arabic), which is titled, “Young People Making Their Own Media. Jordanian Bloggers Publishing [...]

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Sabbah.biz, BahrainBlogs.com and Arablog.net Featured in Al Hayat and Al Wasat Newspapers

by Haitham Sabbah March 2, 2005

The article appeared in Al Wasat and Al Hayat news papers on 24/02/05. Titled: “Personal Diaries Threatening The Written Media: Young Bloggers Bridging Between Arab And The Virtual World.”

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PalestineBlogs.com

by Haitham Sabbah January 27, 2005

It’s our delighted to announce the launch of PalestineBlogs.com. Echoing the sentiments of Pro-Palestine and Anti-Zionist. The new blog will provides users with a comprehensive overview of Palestine current and previous issues; news clippings; reblog news; debate forum (forum currently under construction) and a lot more. Invitations will be sent soon to some pro-Palestine bloggers [...]

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Faulty Routes

by Haitham Sabbah January 19, 2005

Unfortunately there seems to be some routing problems these days that affect reaching arablogger.com. Below results was obtained from alertra.com, which shows that arablogger.com was reachable from London, Frankfurt, Chicago and Orlando, but not from Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Atlanta and Oklahoma (at the time of the check, 9:00 GMT). These are just sample routes, [...]

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BABA Polls Open Now!

by Haitham Sabbah January 16, 2005

Best Arab Blog Awards, Polls are open now. Start voting here. All the best!

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Featured AraBlog reBlogger

by Haitham Sabbah October 29, 2004

I’m sure most of you can recognize this pic. It’s the picture that Roba selected to use at her blog. And why it’s here? You can guess! I’m very proud to announce that Roba was selected to be the first guest reBlogger at a AraBlog.net, and she will enrich the quality posts there. Please join [...]

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Update – Arab Blogger Community

by Haitham Sabbah August 27, 2004

Quills is still on beta, no stable release yet. I’m reluctant to use it. However the Zope platform seems to be very advance and sophisticated and promising. I was amazed by the number of products (more than 200, many other webloges) they support, I wish I had my own test-bed server to run this Python [...]

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Arab Blogging Community

by Haitham Sabbah August 25, 2004

It is petty to admit that we; in the Middle East are very poor in organizing our effort in driving WWW towards globalization (our globalization). Isam was searching from Arab Blogger for some time, I also did same for a while, sometimes succeeded, most-of-the-times failed to find them. The problem is that our coders wizards [...]

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