Finally, Google announced that there Blogger is officially supporting the three main languages in the Middle East, Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew:

Millions of people around the world already use Blogger to participate in the wider Internet community. Blogging is a powerful way for people to publish online, reach a large and varied audience, and communicate with [...]

Because ‘The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword‘, Sileas, one of my favorite Palestinian blogs by the Izzi was hijacked by Zionist hacker gang and deleted. Izzi is a gorgeous Palestinian blogger. Her words are smart, sharp and unavoidable, simply because they are true. Of course some Zionists don’t like her and what she do. [...]

Here is an interesting one:

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So the highest daily posting volume last year crossed 2.5 MILLION post a DAY during July/August 2006. The reason is simple to guess as this Technorati analysis graph shows. It is Israel war on Lebanon. Oh yeah, the world can burn in hell and hardly anyone will care [...]

Created new “Corner Banners” for Palestine Blogs - The Gazette.

I always wanted to do this, but didn’t have the photoshop skills to do them. Googling around for tutorials, and here they are.

Beside the option to select the ‘right’ or ‘left’ version, the banners comes in three ’statements’ that should cover what Palestine Blogs is aggregating:

1. [...]

So finally, our China editor-colleague at Global Voices, Wu Hao was released. He was detained for nearly five months for a reasons that we all know; freedom of speech.

Like Alaa, Hao received strong support across the blogsphere, with hundreds of fellow bloggers posting on his sister blog, as well as putting up tech tags.

Just yesterday, [...]

This is really stupid:

Saudi ISP have blocked SaudiEve’s blog, and it is said that other blogs will follow.

At this point, it is unclear why exactly SaudiEve has been targeted, as she is neither the most outspoken nor the most political of the Saudi bloggers, as she mostly blogs about personal issues and not Saudi Arabia, [...]

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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The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere. It was initially published at Global Voices!

Music…

Amal, in her latest cartoon:

“See my Wawa, kiss my Wawa.” The Wawa is the little tiny hurt “ouch”..

In this cartoon; a poor bleeding Palestinian child is begging from a wealthy Arabian man who seems not giving attention [...]

Ok, it’s time to upgrade my blogging system (wordpress). I’ve been running with WP 1.5.1 Alpha (not even beta) for ages now, and I’m tired of hacking the code, although it was fun, but now it seems that the honeymoon is over, and things are getting broken very often. Keeping in mind that since WP [...]

Bloggers Launch Innovative Campaign to Free One of Their Own
For Immediate Release

Contact: Mary Joyce (MaryCJoyce@gmail.com, Skype name: demoblogger)

On Sunday May 7, Alaa Ahmed Seif El Islam, a prominent Egyptian blogger and political activist, was detained in Cairo by the Egyptian authorities while protesting the earlier detention of political activists rallying for a free judiciary.

Although [...]