Latest posts by Haitham Sabbah from September, 2005
Israel: Widening Campaign
Smooth writes a letter to Muslim and Christian Palestinian Neighbors and says: “Your society has made virtually no effort to understand our narrative. Instead, you have developed what can be called a “culture of denial,” that denies the most basic truths of the Jewish story.”
Egypt: Protest
Referring to recent presidential election in Egypt, Baheyya writes, “In the name of nine million unemployed, your rule Mubarak is void!.”
Jordan: Albawaba Blogs
Ammar announce that the first region-wide (Mideast) Bilingual blogging service is up and running. The service is not officially launched, it's still on beta. Go, test drive Albawaba Blogs.
Bahrain: Governmental Blog
Blogging goes governmental in Bahrain. Chan'ad writes that Manama Municipal Council has set up a blog to communicate and receive feedback from the city’s expatriate community (who form 85% of its population). Blog can be found here: http://manama-council.blogspot.com/ Probably this is the first official's blog in the Arab world!
Kuwait: Sport Stepstone
Kuwaitism says that in Kuwait, sports are only used as a stepstone by people who don't care about it anymore! Giving example of Sh. Ahmad AlFahad, who used to be head of football federation and now is oil minister.
Lebanon: FBI Help
Mustapha of The Beirut Spring blog says that the Lebanese Minister of Interior should resign and the FBI should help with the investigations of recent terrorist attacks on Lebanese figures.
Palestine: Human Shields
umkahlil says that Israeli Forces uses brother of murdered victim as human shield to search a greenhouse belonging to his family. After he was released, he said that the Israeli soldiers used him as a human shield to discover the destiny of the persons who were inside the greenhouse. One...
Saudi Arabia: Gender War
Farooha writes very interesting posts about what she call a phenomenon that is gradually yet shockingly growing rampant in Saudi Arabia, the war between genders.
Syria: Free Elections
Sasa from The Syrian News Wire says that 2007 local council (municipal) elections in Syria will be true test of these promises by Baath Party.
Jordan: Is BigBrother watching?
Firas is wondering why non of Jordan Planet (Jordan Blogs Aggregator) bloggers talks or mention local issue. He says that if you browse JP’s blogs, you will soon come to the conclusion that Jordan is an oasis of democracy where people are enjoying financial ease and prosperity.
Iraq: Referendum
Omar asks, because Iraqi intellectuals, artists and writers have taken it upon themselves to monitor the referendum, no one wants to come from outside?
Iran: Sanction
Mr.Behi grew up under war and sanctions. He says, “I do not want to see Iran under sanction again. This government cares about it's ideology first and then the people. That is insane. Who said that we should cut relations with US and pay this huge price. This is enough.”
United Arab Emirates: GITEX
Secret Dubai says that GITEX in its current form has become an unwieldy, logistically-nightmarish bore. He adds that it lacks relevance and cost-effectiveness for the vast majority of attendees, is far too wide in its scope to give adequate exposure to every segment, so he suggest to split it into...
Saudi Arabia: Official Religious Policeman site
The Religious Policeman often get complains that he is not the official site of the ‘Religious Police in Saudi Arabia’. So he decided to give the audience a guided tour through the official Religious Policeman site (which is in Arabic).
Palestine: Beirut? No… Gaza
Lama Hourani writes at ‘International Solidarity Movement‘ and says: “So it seems that we are living in Beirut again these days. And it seems that I had forgotten what the sound is of an F16 when it attacks. In any case, they are visiting us several times a day and...
Lebanon: Support May Shidyak
In solidarity with the Lebanese Journalist, May Shidyak, who was seriously wounded (lost left leg and hand) when a bomb exploded inside her car north of Beirut a couple of days ago, Lebanese bloggers have a lot to say and ideas to support.
Jordan: Music Morals
Sugar Cubes and Sabbah seem to be upset with what they describe as the low level of moral that some Arab artists and Arab Music TV channels are performing and promoting.
Jordan: The Power of Blogging
Wondering how powerful love blogging can be and effect of that on business? Well, here is a good example from Jordan. Jad has a very good example which actually hits two birds in one stone. First, as an upset customer, and second as a blogger who shared his feeling in...
Bahrain: Boycott of Israeli goods
Mahmood is convinced that Bahrain should ends primary boycott of Israeli goods.
Algeria: Ramadan Cuisine
Since the fasting month of Ramadan is getting close, Chef Farid Zadi of Algerian Cuisine blog is going to start posting some Ramadan Recipes.
Saudi Arabia: Jews and Zionism
Rani (a German lady married to a Saudi) of Not without my cat blog writes about Saudi Arabia's negative approach to Jews but describes the reason for the hatred of Jews in the Arab world by saying, it is Israel state, and relating Jews with Zionists.
