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Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

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 [...]

Arabisc: Cultural and Art Week

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

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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Flickr Blocked in Saudi, Again!

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

Not 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 [...]

Equality ‘key to labour welfare’

Monday, November 28th, 2005

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 [...]

Saudi Arabia: Teachers Silenced on Blasphemy Charges

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

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 [...]

Saudi to pay for weddings to fight terror

Friday, November 11th, 2005

The 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? [...]

A fatwa on football?

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

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. [...]

First Real Cinema Theater in Saudi

Monday, October 17th, 2005

This 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 [...]

Education in Arabia

Monday, October 10th, 2005

2nd Conference on Planning of Education & Applied Research in the Arab Countries. Location: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Date: 13 November 2005.

Prophet Grave

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

Saudi denies putting grave-cover of Prophet Mohammed into auction sale.