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Jordan: Campaign Launched Against “Rape-Marriage” Law

In March of this year 16-year-old Moroccan Amina Filali committed suicide after she was forced to marry her rapist. Now Jordanians are speaking up about a 15-year-old rape victim who has been married off to the man convicted of raping her, whose death sentence has been dropped as a consequence.

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Egypt: Disappointment at First Presidential Debate

Yemen: How Many Women Have Been Subject to Sexual Harassment?

An article published in pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat on May 2, claiming that 90% of Yemeni women have been subject to sexual harassment, has caused a stir online.

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Best of the Blogs 2012: Winners Announced 5 May 2012
Mauritania: Opposition Sit-in Attacked by Security Forces 4 May 2012
Egypt: Eyewitness Account of Abbassiya Clashes 2 May 2012
May Day Marked Around the Arab World 1 May 2012
Tunisia: Clashes Over Future of State Television 29 April 2012

Latest stories about Arabic

14 May 2012

Saudi Arabia: May 7 Marked as Saudi Liberalism Day

Written by Salah Almhamdi · Middle East & North Africa

On May 7 Saudi liberal activists gathered online to celebrate Saudi Liberalism Day, an initiative to acquire recognition and acceptance for liberal ideas.

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Egypt: How do the Presidential Candidates' Posters Compare?

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

About ten days remain before the presidential elections in Egypt. A few days ago we witnessed the first presidential debate in the country's history, but the candidates' posters will also play a big role in the final decision of the voters.

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7 May 2012

Egypt: Anger at Arrest of Lawyer in Saudi Arabia

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

Relations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been under pressure because of the arrest of the Egyptian lawyer Ahmed El Gizawy in Saudi Arabia. News reports stated that he was sentenced to 20 lashes for “defaming the Saudi king”.

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2 May 2012

Palestine: Mass Hunger Strike by Prisoners

Written by Jummana Kahlout · Middle East & North Africa

Palestinian prisoners began an open ended hunger strike on April 17 to protest the conditions within Israeli prisons. What had started earlier as a protest by a few has now increased to thousands of participants.

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Lebanon: Demotivational Humour on Facebook

Written by Thalia Rahme · Middle East & North Africa

Recently a number of Facebook pages have been started about specifically Lebanese memes. In this post Global Voices interviews the creator of a page called “Demotivational Lebanon”.

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28 April 2012

Syria: Television “Confession” of Activist Ali Mahmoud Othman

Written by Leila Nachawati Rego · Middle East & North Africa

Ali Mahmoud Othman, head of the media office of Baba Amr in Homs, was arrested in March. Now an exclusive interview, which many believe is a forced confession following his torture, is due to be broadcast on Syrian state television.

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27 April 2012

Tunisia: Uproar at Kiss of President's Hand

Written by Afef Abrougui · Middle East & North Africa

On April 26 a video featuring two men kissing the hand of interim Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki made a buzz on the web. Kissing the hand of the president is seen as a relic of the rule of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and against the values of post-uprising Tunisia.

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24 April 2012

Egypt: Time for Televised Presidential Debates?

Written by Salah Almhamdi · Middle East & North Africa

As the time approaches for the Egyptian presidential election, there have been calls not only in Egypt but also around the Arab world for televised presidential debates.

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21 April 2012

Tunisia: Police Clash with Jobless Protestors in Radès

Written by Salah Almhamdi · Middle East & North Africa

On April 13 police clashed with a group of young protestors from Cité El Mallaha in the port of Radès, just south of the capital Tunis. The protesters were staging a sit-in, demanding a share of some jobs which had been recently created in Radès port.

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Egypt: Should the Grand Mufti Have Gone to Jerusalem?

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

On April 18 Ali Gomaa, the Egyptian grand mufti and one of the highest religious authorities in the Islamic world, visited Jerusalem for the first time. The visit is controversial since it is seen by many as a step towards normalised relations with Israel.

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Updates about Arabic

16 May 2012

Egypt

Following Egypt's first ever presidential debate, and with interviews being held every day with presidential candidates, political analyst Mohamed Seif Eldawla has written on his blog Zakerat Aloma about the questions missing from the presidential debates [ar].

• محمد عادل

13 May 2012

Egypt

Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Wellcome Library and King’s College London Digital Humanities Department have recently launched the Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership (WAMCP). The manuscripts collection comprises around 1000 manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine. All content is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0).

• محمد عادل

8 May 2012

Saudi Arabia

Online accounts are frequently hacked and stolen. We often hear of those who hacked someone's email or stole someone's email password. Twitter is no different, so the Saudi tweep and blogger Manal Al-Sherif, who has worked as a Information Security Consultant in an oil company for years, shared her tips on how to protect Twitter accounts from being hacked [ar].

• طارق عمرو

Syria

Lebanese blog Beirut Walls has written about [ar] the accusations made against the Syrian revolution in a new light. “Maybe hard water, which is very common in Lebanon, is calcifying the mind. There is no other obvious explanation for the recent trend of inhuman or illogical accusations against the Syrian revolution. Let's try to find a reason that justifies this judgmental and offensive way of thinking.”

• رامي الهامس

22 April 2012

Jordan

Project Pen is an initiative to promote short story writing by Arabs and “encourage a new generation of writers, creating new kinds of stories, for a new kind of readership”. By sharing stories across social media, and by connecting writers with each other, Project Pen intends to bypass traditional publishing and take storytelling “back to a future when stories were carved out on cave walls, and spoken out over the camp fire”. You can find out more at the project's website (in Arabic and English), and on Facebook and Twitter.

• Ayesha Saldanha

12 April 2012

Egypt

Architect and researcher Omnia Khalil, has published this presentation as a part of Egyptian urban action [Ar], an exhibition and workshop scheduled for 4 July, 2012. It concerns advocating for the residents of informal neighbourhoods and highlights urban deterioration, forced evacuation and urban challenges in Egypt. In this video [Ar] we hear from some of the people facing forced evacuation. The workshop also aims to amplify their voices so they can participate in policy making.

• محمد عادل

28 March 2012

Elections

With the upcoming Algerian Legislative Election scheduled for May 10, 2012, one of the many elections taking place in 2012 [fr] within the continent of Africa, a collaborative website called Nahrag [ar] has just been launched by internet activists. Putting the case for more transparency in an election threatened with widespread boycott, the creators are using a collaborative map tool called Ushahidi (Swahili for ‘witness'). This map will be updated to include descriptions by Algerian citizens, exposing any irregularities which might occur during the election. There are 42,000 polling stations in the country.

• Samy Boutayeb

24 March 2012

Saudi Arabia

Revolution2East posts on YouTube this video from a protest in Qatif, Saudi Arabia, in which protesters, who include women, chant that they will not give up on demanding their rights.

• Amira Al Hussaini

21 March 2012

Libya

What are Libyans laughing about on social networking sites? Check out this Facebook page to keep abreast with Libyan memes.

• Amira Al Hussaini

16 March 2012

Syria

Saudi blogger Ahmed Al Omran complies a Storify collection of videos allegedly leaked from Syria today. Many show protests which happened this Friday. [Warning: Some of the videos contain graphic material)

• Amira Al Hussaini

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