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Amira Al Hussaini

Regional Editor for the Middle East and North Africa

Stories

July 1st, 2009

Middle East & North Africa

Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas was detained and questioned for 13 hours upon arrival in Cairo from a conference in Sweden. “finally released after 13 hours, found the lost bag, but they took the laptop still, i'm home now, will try to rest no calls plz thank u all,” he tweets after his release. In another tweet, he says his laptop was confiscated by the authorities.

Middle East & North Africa

Life in Dubai posts a photograph of workers in the heat, wearing straw hats and comments: “I came across this gang of labourers this morning, looking very stylish in their straw hats.”

Middle East & North Africa

From Israel, Anglosaxy continues narrating how he ended up in Israel in this post.

Middle East & North Africa

Syrian Hosam Akras [ar] marks the death of King of Pop Michael Jackson by posting his photographs in this post.

Middle East & North Africa

“The Iranian people have the virtues of a great civilization running through their veins. We love you Iran,” tweets Queen Rania of Jordan here.

Middle East & North Africa

Tikun Olam's Richard Silverstein, who is based in the US, writes about the capture of a ferry carrying 23 human rights activists who were attempting to break the siege on Gaza by the IDF. “Israel had no right to intercept this ship, nor to impound it or detain its passengers. It has no right to forcibly transfer them to Israeli territory,” he notes.