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 let you [...]
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 [...]
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 me in welcoming [...]
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 [...]
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 are [...]
Despite truce, still no sign of school supplies in Gaza
Under its truce with Hamas, Israel has permitted shipments of frozen meat, soft drinks, cookies, jam, shampoo, clothing and other items. However, the amounts are insufficient for the entire population. In September 2007 - three months after Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, and after the main cargo crossing, Karni, had ... A Monopoly of Incompetence, Corruption, Failure and Thuggery
Years of silence by Palestinian "Sheiks" and intellectuals led us to where we are now. Arafat ruled the PLO and Fatah with iron fist, using bribery, intimidation even physical liquidation to silence every one. There was never a call for accountability of decisions, failures even financial corruptions. Time for a ... We are running out of time for a two-state solution
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent At the end of my conversation with Sari Nusseibeh at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, the highly respected president of Al-Quds University - and cosignatory of "The People's Choice," a peace plan that he formulated with former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon - told ... Woman beat, threatened by 'modesty squad'
Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaimed 'chastity guards'
Aviad Glickman
A 31-year-old Jerusalem woman was cruelly beaten and threatened with death by members of the 'modesty squad' who took it upon themselves to interrogate her about her relationships ... Jaffa pool restricts entry of Arab residents
Omer Ori Jewish and Arab relations in the city of Jaffa have always been tense, and Jewish residents' committees of some of Jaffa's neighborhoods have decide to do something about it, at least where the city pool is concerned: They rent out the pool every two weeks – to Jews ...
