Comments on: Bleeding at the Iraqi Blogodrome http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/02/bleeding-at-the-iraqi-blogodrome/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:53:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Salam Adil http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/02/bleeding-at-the-iraqi-blogodrome/comment-page-1/#comment-723892 Salam Adil Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:01:00 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/02/bleeding-at-the-iraqi-blogodrome/#comment-723892 I hear this too many times over. The Gulf states like to talk up their support for displaced peoples but the reality is the opposite. It is true hypocracy. And the local media prove their complete ineffectiveness for not taking the government to task on this. I think being married to an American certainly helps and you should try every avenue to appeal your case - the Dubai immigration, you embassy, anything you can think of. You should try to contact the author of "Why Dubai?" to see what can be done to help. I hear this too many times over. The Gulf states like to talk up their support for displaced peoples but the reality is the opposite. It is true hypocracy. And the local media prove their complete ineffectiveness for not taking the government to task on this.

I think being married to an American certainly helps and you should try every avenue to appeal your case – the Dubai immigration, you embassy, anything you can think of.

You should try to contact the author of “Why Dubai?” to see what can be done to help.

]]> By: kathy mellish http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/02/bleeding-at-the-iraqi-blogodrome/comment-page-1/#comment-716816 kathy mellish Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:10:21 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/02/bleeding-at-the-iraqi-blogodrome/#comment-716816 My husband and I just got married last month. He is an Iraqi and I am an American. I have known him for three years-2 in Iraq and 1 in Dubai. He has had three different jobs just because each job could not provide him with a residence Visa. We just found out that when this last Visa ends in April and he must get out of the country and come back to Dubai, that the Dubai government will not permit him to come back. It was hard enough to live knowing that he would not get a residence visa and must travel out of the country every three months, but then to learn that the next time he leaves (legally), he will not be permitted back. He is a man with no country. He cannot go back to Iraq and is doing very well here in Dubai with his job. It is so so unfair what the Dubai government is doing. Why are they doing this? He is a good man, only 26, and works hard. His entry into the States will take at least a year and we wanted to stay in Dubai until then. Can I appeal to the Immigration here in Dubai? Will it do any good? Will being married to an American help or hinder him in Dubai. Sincerely, K My husband and I just got married last month. He is an Iraqi and I am an American. I have known him for three years-2 in Iraq and 1 in Dubai. He has had three different jobs just because each job could not provide him with a residence Visa. We just found out that when this last Visa ends in April and he must get out of the country and come back to Dubai, that the Dubai government will not permit him to come back.

It was hard enough to live knowing that he would not get a residence visa and must travel out of the country every three months, but then to learn that the next time he leaves (legally), he will not be permitted back. He is a man with no country. He cannot go back to Iraq and is doing very well here in Dubai with his job.

It is so so unfair what the Dubai government is doing. Why are they doing this? He is a good man, only 26, and works hard.

His entry into the States will take at least a year and we wanted to stay in Dubai until then. Can I appeal to the Immigration here in Dubai? Will it do any good? Will being married to an American help or hinder him in Dubai.

Sincerely,

K

]]> By: Info/Law » Open Access Law, or: Should Law Professors Write for Wikipedia? http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/02/bleeding-at-the-iraqi-blogodrome/comment-page-1/#comment-662663 Info/Law » Open Access Law, or: Should Law Professors Write for Wikipedia? Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:50:07 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/02/bleeding-at-the-iraqi-blogodrome/#comment-662663 [...] We can readily quibble with overreliance on “expertise” as a necessary credential online; indeed, the internet’s hierarchy-leveling, democratizing influence carries many more pluses than minuses. Sometimes so-called “experts” are merely self-appointed experts, and the Web provides handy tools, not readily available in the offline world, for assessing their real worth. (Will you learn more about the present situation in Iraq from reading the Iraq Study Group Report, or from reading any given collection of posts by Iraqi bloggers? Sometimes the self-proclaimed experts can lead you astray.) Moreover, the track record of by-experts-for-experts sites is rather poor thus far; there’s presently at least as much evidence for the proposition that Scholarpedia is an embarrassment as for any other conclusion. But let’s assume for the moment that expertise is as valuable, and we should be valuing it, as much as Professor Sherry thinks. What does that mean for experts and the open-access movement? [...] [...] We can readily quibble with overreliance on “expertise” as a necessary credential online; indeed, the internet’s hierarchy-leveling, democratizing influence carries many more pluses than minuses. Sometimes so-called “experts” are merely self-appointed experts, and the Web provides handy tools, not readily available in the offline world, for assessing their real worth. (Will you learn more about the present situation in Iraq from reading the Iraq Study Group Report, or from reading any given collection of posts by Iraqi bloggers? Sometimes the self-proclaimed experts can lead you astray.) Moreover, the track record of by-experts-for-experts sites is rather poor thus far; there’s presently at least as much evidence for the proposition that Scholarpedia is an embarrassment as for any other conclusion. But let’s assume for the moment that expertise is as valuable, and we should be valuing it, as much as Professor Sherry thinks. What does that mean for experts and the open-access movement? [...]

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