Awards

The Day of The Awards of the Absurd, The Nobel Peace Prize Becomes Toilet Paper

by Robin October 9, 2009

By Robin Two of them, yes two are in the news today. Two awards announced that are so far into the realm of the absurd, the stuff science fiction is made of, that one must shudder at the realization, Orwell’s “1984″ has truly arrived, war has become peace. The first news has circled the globe [...]

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Fourth Annual Brass Crescent Award Winners Announced

by Haitham Sabbah December 17, 2007

Just came to know the results of the Fourth Annual Brass Crescent Award and the “Best Mideast/Central Asian Blog” is “Raising Yousuf, Unplugged (Laila El-Haddad)”. Congratulation to Laila, she deserve it… and thanks to all those who voted for Sabbah’s Blog (I got a ‘Honorable Mention’)!

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Vote for Sabbah!

by Haitham Sabbah December 6, 2007

To my surprise, I just came to know that my blog is nominated for the Fourth Annual Brass Crescent Awards 2007. Polls close Friday, December 14! Vote for Sabbah! Go to “BEST MIDEAST/CENTRAL ASIAN BLOG” section and give me a tip ;-)

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Hey, I’m a A-List Bloglebrity!

by Haitham Sabbah January 8, 2007

This “cool tool” is all about the amount of Vanity Fair, GQ, and People Magazine covers I can score. No? :-) Ok, A-List Bloglebrity on the Internet, is all about the amount of link love you (I) can score. It is powered by Technorati records of the blog and some technical stuff, which I don’t [...]

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2007 Bloggie Awards!

by Haitham Sabbah January 2, 2007

Nominations have opened for the 2007 Bloggie Awards (no, it’s not just another blog award*). Last year I was honored to be named a finalist in the “Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog” category, along with Baghdad Burning, Sleepless in Sudan, Mahmood’s Den and Subzero Blue. All terrific sites that I read regularly. The winner [...]

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Your blog wins a Rule The World award!!!

by Haitham Sabbah January 27, 2006

I liked this one: Hello Sabbah, I’m happy to inform you that your site sabbah.biz has won an award as best site to “Rule The World” (www.asktheworld.org/ruletheworld). Your site has been suggested by hundreds of our site’s visitors and chosen by the Rule The World staff. Your site has been awarded because of his big [...]

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Pictures of the year 2005

by Haitham Sabbah December 26, 2005

This is a nifty flash presentation of Reuters’ 40 pictures of the year 2005. My selection from these reflects the misery life that surrounds us in this part of the world. So here they are: Each of these reminds us (although we never forget) of the endless story of, tragedy, corruption, greed, unjust, was, terrorism, [...]

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SALT & PEPPER

by Haitham Sabbah October 2, 2005

Winner, Visions of Science Photographic Awards. (BBC; official site) Science is cool (not really, but that’s what we tell ourselves to make ourselves feel better). The coolest science pictures you’re going to see all day. Check out the Top 10 Winners of the Visions of Science Photographic Awards. I’m partial to 6 and 7, for [...]

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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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