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Hamas Release Animated Gilad Shalit Cartoon [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah April 26, 2010

A superbly-made futuristic animated cartoon broadcast by Hamas movement on Sunday is creating waves in Israel. It is thought to be the first of its kind from the military wing of Hamas that does not depend on the traditional images of brave Hamas warriors fighting against Israel. Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHVR63sDY7c The film wants to send [...]

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Goldstone Report Copy

by Haitham Sabbah October 30, 2009

Human Rights Council’s Goldstone Commission findings on Cast Lead, Israel’s war of aggression against Gaza Here are links to the official copy of Richard Goldstone report in different languages: Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (PDF) Executive summary: English – French – Russian – Spanish – Arabic – Chinese [...]

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Learn Arabic! Why?

by Haitham Sabbah November 10, 2007

According to Encarta Encyclopedia, Arabic is the second most spoken language. The Top 5 most spoken languages are ranked as follows: 1. Chinese (1,212,560,000): China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Macao, Cambodia 2. Arabic (422,039,637): Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Palestine, Israel, Iran, France, [...]

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Arabisc: Arabic Bloggers Ken

by Haitham Sabbah June 2, 2006

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices! This week in the Arabic Language blogsphere: Let’s start with the hard stuff. Tara from Iraq, has some rare seen images: Tara then writes: ????? ??? ??? ? ?? ???? ??? ????? ????? ????? ?? ???? [...]

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Burning Butter!

by Haitham Sabbah February 6, 2006

This article first appeared on Global Voices. The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere. The selected posts reflect different deviations in opinions and reactions related to the infamous Danish Cartoons. Dalya Younis of Geraldine Kingdom blog writes: ????.. ?? ???? ??? ?? ????? ?? ???????.. ??? ????? ?????????? ???? ?? [...]

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ArabiskBlog: Blogging Beyond Borders

by Haitham Sabbah October 17, 2005

Just came across a new Arabic ‘Blog-to-Media’ project, which is still on beta. It’s called ArabiskBlog. What they do is quite interesting. On weekly bases they publish a PDF Magazine called ‘Blogging Beyond Borders’ (already three issues), of selected Arabic language Blog posts. Although it looks so far to concentrate on Egyptian blogs, however we [...]

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