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At last, something worth the money spent:
Saudi supercomputer lures researchers
By Asma Alsharif
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – A new science and technology university in Saudi Arabia will house one of [...]
This is just getting out of hand. Ridiculous…
A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.
Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.
The question of how much of her face a woman should cover [...]
The latest crime "in the name of social customs and religious rules."
A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged.
The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the [...]
This is a cross-posting. It was initially published at Global Voices in my (semi)-weekly translation post.
The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere.
This week, johacom was happy to find some cartoons by Arab cartoonist that depict some Official Arab Leaders. He says:
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Also tagged Arabisc, Cartoon, Human Rights, Libya, Oman, UAENot to be missing to follow the steps of UAE, Saudi blocked Flickr again. I just can't get what stupid policy is this to block it one day and then open it later and then block it again. What is the benefit of doing such a thing? Is it a game some employees in these [...]
Also tagged Censorship, UAE Finally, the international workshop to protect the rights of migrant workers was held in Bahrain.
I say finally because this workshop was not allowed to take place in all Gulf countries, until General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions (GFBTU) decided to partner with the International Federation of Free Unions, the International Federation for Arab Workers [...]
A Saudi court has sentenced a high school chemistry teacher to more than three years in prison and 750 lashes for talking to his pupils about his views on a number of current topics, such as Christianity, Judaism and the causes of terrorism. In Qassim province, north of Riyadh, the prosecution department pressed blasphemy charges [...]
Also tagged Bleeding Edge, Failures, Human Rights, Saudi ArabiaThe Saudi government thinks it has a way of keeping former Guantanamo inmates from returning to terrorism by paying for their weddings. (UPI)
Is that all what the government can offer? Is that all what these inmates are looking for? And who suggest that they are terrorist? If they were terrorist, would US let them go? [...]
Whoever says "foul," "penalty", "corner," "goal", "out" and others, should be punished and ejected from the game. Do not call "foul" and stop the game if someone falls, instead, it should be adjudicated according to Sharia rulings concerning broken bones and injuries. Do not play with 11 people. Add to this number or decrease it. [...]
Also tagged Fatwa, FootballThis report (Arabic) says that Riyadh will have it's first cinema theater launched by the first day of Eid Alfitr. The report says that the hotel hosted cinema will be big enough to take 1400 viewer at a time and will have three shows a day. That's all the good news. The bad funny news [...]
Also tagged Cartoon, Cinema2nd Conference on Planning of Education & Applied Research in the Arab Countries. Location: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Date: 13 November 2005.
Also tagged Education, Good News, Regional, Saudi ArabiaSaudi denies putting grave-cover of Prophet Mohammed into auction sale.
Also tagged Islam, News, Religion, Saudi ArabiaUpdate: It is not anymore a rumor. King Fahd death is confirmed.
"With deep sorrow and pain, the royal court… mourns the death of The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd due to illness," said an official statement read out on state television.
God bless his soul. Fahd, who was believed to be 83 and [...]
