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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
2nd Conference on Planning of Education & Applied Research in the Arab Countries. Location: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Date: 13 November 2005.
Saudi denies putting grave-cover of Prophet Mohammed into auction sale.
Despite truce, still no sign of school supplies in Gaza
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Years of silence by Palestinian "Sheiks" and intellectuals led us to where we are now. Arafat ruled the PLO and Fatah with iron fist, using bribery, intimidation even physical liquidation to silence every one. There was never a call for accountability of decisions, failures even financial corruptions. Time for a ... We are running out of time for a two-state solution
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent At the end of my conversation with Sari Nusseibeh at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, the highly respected president of Al-Quds University - and cosignatory of "The People's Choice," a peace plan that he formulated with former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon - told ... Woman beat, threatened by 'modesty squad'
Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaimed 'chastity guards'
Aviad Glickman
A 31-year-old Jerusalem woman was cruelly beaten and threatened with death by members of the 'modesty squad' who took it upon themselves to interrogate her about her relationships ... Jaffa pool restricts entry of Arab residents
Omer Ori Jewish and Arab relations in the city of Jaffa have always been tense, and Jewish residents' committees of some of Jaffa's neighborhoods have decide to do something about it, at least where the city pool is concerned: They rent out the pool every two weeks – to Jews ...
