Here is another toy from Google. It is still sitting at Googles Labs, and they call it Google Trends. Fark recently featured the discovery under “obvious” tag, so I went to check it out, and guess what, I came out… blushing
Here is why. Go here and search for the word “sex” (don’t worry, [...]

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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 [...]

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Ok, let’s do something productive. It is called “Google-bombing for Alaa.” Here is the deal: http://freealaa.blogspot.com/
A team of bloggers from all around the world are teaming up to create a special blog about Alaa’s detention. Then bloggers from all around the world are asked to link to this page using the text “Egypt“. (Due [...]

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Update 1: I’ll be on BBC Radio “World Have Your Say” tonight to talk about Alaa’a arrest.
Update 2: Kevin from BBC’s “World Have Your Say” writes in BBC blogs:
I contacted the Egyptian Embassy here in London to give them a chance to respond. I called around 4 pm, and their press secretary had already gone [...]

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Alaa Abd El-Fatah, one of the Egyptian political activists, and one of the first bloggers in Egypt was arrested today together with around ten more activists during a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with sixty activists who were arrested over the past two weeks in a non-violent sit in, as well [...]

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Be aware, this sin will get you a ticket to hell: Egypt’s Grand Mufti, Shaikh Ali Gomaa, has issued a fatwa against the display of statues in private homes. Many Egyptians have small knock offs of busts of Ramses and other mementos of ancient Egyptian culture.
Just add it to the list of stupid FATWA’S!

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

It’s not only the English language bloggers from Middle East who are continuously trying to bridge the cultural gaps, but Arabic language bloggers are facing similar tough battle at home, within the Arabic blogsphere [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen,
I’m glad to introduce to you, a new ‘First Lady‘ in our part of the world.
Khadija Al Jammal (24 years) will get engaged tonight to the next Egyptian leader, Jamal Hussni Mubarak (42 years).
Congratulations to Egypt!

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In response to the Prophet Mohammad cartoons, this newspaper has decided to run a picture of the queen, Margrethe II, as a belly-dancer. Apparently it’s supposed to make us laugh and Danes to get angry. I’m just laughing at their poor attempt.
This is Ironic, ridiculous, idiotic, laughable, nonsensical, …
I was told that this is an [...]

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With all there is for the cave-dwellers to be angry about, Abu Hamza al-Masri, the hook-handed, wacko-head that can’t wipe his own ass has directed his poor followers at another dangerous infidel:

By Duncan Gardham - Abu Hamza, the Muslim cleric, told his followers that John Travolta’s dancing posed a danger to their daughters, a court [...]

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Feeling horny? Grab your clothes and keep your eyes off your partner’s privates!
Cairo - An Egyptian cleric’s controversial fatwa claiming that nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage has uncovered a rift among Islamic scholars.
According to the religious edict issued by Rashad Hassan Khalil, a former dean of Al-Azhar University’s faculty of Sharia (or Islamic [...]

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In the spirit of the “constructive and hot discussion” in the last two day regarding anonymity and blogging, and as a compliment to that, I’m please to share with you BlogSafer press release.
It is a wiki based project, which means that anyone and everyone is welcome to share and edit the content (until it is [...]

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A very important Mummy mask stolen from Saqqara, museum storage room, and sold by Ali Aboutaam (already convicted in absentia in the Egyptian Courts to 15 years of prison for art theft, in Al Sweissy trial) to the St. Louis Art Museum in 1998.

Follow this link http://www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/soufle3-1.htm to flip over a the literature book:
The Buried [...]

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Human Rights Watch released its long-awaited report on Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa. This report examines Internet trends and policies in the Middle East and North Africa region as they affect freedom of expression, focusing particularly on Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. Human Rights Watch selected these four countries for closer [...]

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Ancient Egyptians used helicopters and airplanes for battles?
There is a scientific theory that says that Egyptians descended from Martians who had once visited this planet.
In 1848, one of numerous archeological expeditions working in Egypt discovered strange hieroglyphs at the height of about ten meters right above the entrance to the Seti Temple in Abydos. The [...]

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Please sign this new petition asking the Egyptian Interior ministry to free Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman, currently in an Egyptian jail for his critical blogging.

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A 14-year-old Egyptian boy faces execution in Saudi Arabia after a flawed trial in which he was convicted for the murder of another child, Human Rights Watch said today.
Following a seriously flawed trial, Ahmad al-D. was sentenced to death in July for the murder of three-year old Wala� `Adil `Abd al-Badi` in Dammam in April [...]

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Some Egyptian news roundup I found worth sharing:
* This is a New game that explores ancient Egypt.
* Some Americans says that Egyptian motifs are found throughout US culture, in everything from tattoos (the ankh and the eye of Horus are particularly popular) to the pyramid on the back side of the $1 bill and that [...]

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Egypt said that it would dispatch a legal delegation to Qatar to question a Qatari prince accused of causing the death of five Egyptians in a high-speed illegal car race accident. The Egyptian authorities accuse Suleiman Saud Al Thani, a member of Qatar’s ruling family, of killing the five and injuring 14 others when his [...]

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