If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Oxford University is this week holding an “Israeli Apartheid week.” Hosted by the Palestinian Society, flyers state it is to commemorate the “30th anniversary of the international convention on [...]

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Yesterday I was reading “Bloggers: an army of irregulars” by Paul Reynolds from the BBC. He talks about what big business and the mainstream media can learn from blogs :
For many in the “mainstream media”, as bloggers call us, weblogs are at best a nuisance and at worst dangerous.
They are seen as the rantings and [...]

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Remember the hook-handed captain and his infamous ‘Saturday Night’ Fatwa? Well, finally, Abu Hamza al-Masri (a.k.a. Mustafa Kamel Mustafa) has been jailed for seven years after being found guilty of 11 terrorism charges, including soliciting murder and threatening behavior. Personally, I think this is very little for him.

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…BTW, we did a segment on Star Academy yesterday and quoted your blog. [Hat tip: email from Kevin - BBC to me]
You can still listen to last night “Have Your Say” discussion on this (I guess it will be replaced by the today segments soon, so hurry up).

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A couple of days ago, we celebrated the 2nd anniversary of MTC-Vodafone launch in Bahrain; with much of joy, fun and love.
If someone would ask me what does MTC-VB mean to you? I would undoubtedly say: its people! And that’s what I was trying to say through this big picture. [Alaa Ghawas]
And this is truly [...]

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While in London, I bumped into Dan Gillmor, the blogger, journalist and of the author of the book, We the Media, which, chronicling how the Internet is helping independent journalists combat the consolidation of traditional media.
The good news is that he is putting together a nonprofit Center for Citizen Media. The center will live virtually [...]

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This is only really of interest for WordPress bloggers. According to the WordPress development blog, the WP 2. 0 Release Candidate is ready for all and sundry to download.

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The always fascinating google zeitgeist has been released for this year. A list of top search terms, and other rankings. While Myspace is the 1st highest gainer, Wikipedia came 4th. See other search result ranking and trends of World Affairs, Nature, Movies, Celebrities and Phenomena.

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Congratulations Bahrain. Today is your 34th anniversary of independence. Time for festivals, opera’s and fire works.

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“What I’m doing is buying 250 video cameras and players and dividing them up, giving 125 of them to Palestinian children, 125 to Israeli kids, so they can make movies about their own lives. Not dramas, just little documentaries about who they are and what they believe in, who their parents are, where they go [...]

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Jordan’s King Abdullah II [official website] has urged the Jordanian parliament to quickly approve new anti-terrorism legislation, drafted two weeks ago [JURIST report] in the wake of last month’s hotel bombing [Reuters report] that left 60 people dead. During the Thursday opening of the third parliamentary session since 2003 elections, King Abdullah II said that [...]

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Following up on my post few days ago, here comes the good news: Two Saudi businesswomen swept to an unprecedented victory in elections to the board of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday in the first polls in which women stood as candidates in the conservative Muslim kingdom.

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In the wake of Boris Johnson, Blairwatch and many other bloggers have put themselves down as being prepared to publish the ‘Bush-Blair Al Jazeera memo’ should it become available.
To join the growing call for disclosure and internet publication visit Blairwatch here, and get “I�ll publish the al Jazeera memo” button from here.
On [...]

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17 women contesting alongside 54 male candidates for the first time in the history of Saudi Arabia.
Women’s participation in the elections is expected to grab attention worldwide.
Women members will vote today and tomorrow and businessmen will vote on Monday and Tuesday at the chamber’s Sheikh Ismail Abu Dawood Hall.
Hmmm… separation here? What will they do [...]

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For the woman who wants to stay both warm and environmentally conscious this winter � and isn’t bothered by extra bulk under her shirt � a lingerie maker unveiled a thick bra that can be heated in a microwave.

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Almost six in 10 now say Bush is not honest, and a similar number say his administration does not have high ethical standards. [Ipsos poll]
Am I surprised?

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In November of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at Europe’s CERN Particle Physics Laboratory, invented the very first web server and web browser. The server, entitled simply httpd, and the browser, called WorldWideWeb, ran on Tim’s NeXT cube and worked exclusively on the NeXTstep operating system. Archive copies of Tim’s first web page and some [...]

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A Dutch designer has created a wall of fake breasts to help male shoppers buy bras that fit their wives or girlfriends. The wall consists of rows of silicon breasts in all sizes. By look and touch, male shoppers can work out the right size. [Ananova]
Photos here and here!
Very creative. So you guys be creative [...]

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In solidarity with the two Moroccan embassy employees kidnapped last month in Iraq, the Moroccan blogsphere started a new blog that follows up on latest news and coordination campaigns to free the hostages (in Arabic and French).

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Pharmacists across the Middle East are increasing their stocks of Viagra after reporting significant sales increases for the drug over the Eid El-Fitr festival in previous years. Figures reveal that during the holiday period, a time when families gather to celebrate Eid, pharmacists have seen a three-fold rise in demand for Viagra, the leading erectile [...]

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