About Haitham Sabbah
Haitham Sabbah is a Jordanian (with roots from Palestine), born at Kuwait on 1969. I am an Electronics & Communication Engineer, and work in a managerial position in one of the leading Telecommunication companies at the M.E.
At the moment I live in Bahrain, and I like the country and it's people. I traveled around most of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
Founder of many Arab related blogging projects as well community blog like the Palestine Blogs Aggregator.
Credited with being one of the first blogs to ascend from the Arab region, my personal blog lives at http://sabbah.biz/
Latest posts by Haitham Sabbah
Stories
December 25th, 2006
Middle East & North Africa
“There is a big need to re-brand the Middle East. Not just to change the bad image we have in others minds, but also to change the bad image we hold for ourselves inside. And maybe this would be one of the most efficient steps towered resolving the most complicated conflicts in mankind history,” Wael Attili said.
Middle East & North Africa
What is the relation between religions and suicide bomber? Is religion the only factor behind it? Who and why a person commit a suicide bombing? All these questions and more are answered in a series of posts by Lawrence of Cyberia. To start, follow the posts here and here then don't miss the coming interesting posts to follow.
Middle East & North Africa
“Egypt, where Mary, Joseph, and Jesus fled seeking shelter. But the Christmas spirit has apparently not returned, at least not to the Qalubia governor who just attempted to shut down a local NGO for reporting on poor civic conditions,” Or Does it Explode reports.
Middle East & North Africa
Yisrael Medad says that he opposed the term “settler” and “settlement” from the beginning, preferring his own term -”revenant” and “Jewish community”. Find out why he hate these terms.
December 19th, 2006
Middle East & North Africa
Eid Ul-Adha is just around the corner and will be coinciding with the end of the year this time around. This Eid marks the end of the Hajj (pilgrimage) each year to Mecca and is known as the feast of sacrifice. Muslims who can afford it buy and slaughter animals and distribute the meat among the poor and relatives. However, many Muslims in Western countries are unable to perform the ritual because of the laws of the countries they live in. To solve this issue, MMM says that they can scarify animals online.
Middle East & North Africa
A new (and only) podcast that teaches Arabic language for English people is here, finally!
Funding drive
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