Monday, February 25th, 2008
If you thought that Burj Dubai is the end of the “Arabian Dream”, you are mistaken.
The new race in the Arab World (to be particular, the Gulf region) is building the highest towers.
Few years ago, Dubai announced that they are going to spend few “Billions” of Dollars to build the highest tower in the world, [...]
Posted in Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Too Much Free Time, UAE | 11 Comments »
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
I admit I have missed the news when it was announced end of last July, but better late than never.
Honored to be Bahraini by soul for living in Bahrain for the last four years, I am very happy to know that Wafaa Ganahi, a 23-year-old teacher from the Law Faculty of Bahrain University, won the [...]
Posted in Algeria, Arab, Bahrain, Egypt, Good News, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia | 55 Comments »
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
The results are out and I was not surprised to see that the images of the Zionist crimes are winning so many awards this year. First of all, the grand prize was selected by the international jury of the 50th annual World Press Photo Contest and it went to a color image of the [...]
Posted in Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Media, Middle East, Palestine, Photos, Terrorism, War Crimes, Zionism | No Comments »
Monday, February 5th, 2007
I don’t know how many of my friends around the Gulf received this alert from Greenpeace, however, here it is for the use of everyone: From: Hussein Fakih [hfakih@diala.greenpeace.org]
Date: Feb 4, 2007 10:20 PM
Subject: Greenpeace: opinion poll
To: [haitham.sabbah@gmail.com] Dear Mr Haitham Sabbah, I am an activist in Greenpeace (the international environmental independent organization). Greenpeace [...]
Posted in Kuwait, Qatar, UAE | No Comments »
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
In the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, in between 168 indexed countries, our beloved Arab countries makes sure to be among the worst.
Here is the list in order from “best” to “worst”:
Kuwait - 73
United Arab Emirates - 77
Mauritania - 77
Qatar - 80
Morocco - 97
Lebanon - 107
Jordan - 109
Bahrain - 111
Algeria - [...]
Posted in Algeria, Arab, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Media, Middle East, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen | 3 Comments »
Friday, July 14th, 2006
The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices…
The Blazing Middle East
Third day after the beginning of the never ending Middle East conflict; Israel/Lebanon war, the Arabic blogsphere speaks.
Ranging between anger, celebration, condemnation and support, on both sides of the conflict, the bloggers views vary [...]
Posted in Arab, Bahrain, Defence, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Religion, War | 7 Comments »
Friday, June 2nd, 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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Posted in Arab, Blogging, Cartoon, Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Internet 'n Computers, Iraq, Islam, Kuwait, Lebanon, Media, Middle East, Religion, War | No Comments »
Saturday, May 27th, 2006
The following is an abbreviated translation from some Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices!
From Egypt… Malek who was scheduled to be free few days ago is now officially free. He just made his first post, titled: Free Morning. Malek writes:
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Posted in Arab, Blogging, Culture, Democracy, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Good News, Human Rights, Internet 'n Computers, Kuwait, Lebanon, Media, Middle East, Politics, Religion, Saudi Arabia | 4 Comments »
Friday, May 19th, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Arab, Art, Blogging, Culture, Democracy, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Middle East, Music, Palestine, Politics | 10 Comments »
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Arab, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Islam, Kuwait, Middle East, Religion, Saudi Arabia | 6 Comments »