The Moroccan Mirror

Crazy, We Have to Be!

A beacon of Moroccan independent press, Le Journal Hebdomadaire, has been administratively terminated. It is the latest episode, and arguably the most significant in a long war the Moroccan authorities have been waging against voices of dissent in the cou [read more] [get feed]

Kabob Fest

One Arab Singer to Give You the Middle Finger

Diab, up and coming Egyptian hip singer has managed to do in less than two months what it took MTV 10 years to accomplish. Diab releases two music videos that assault the common decency in the Arab airwaves and shove scum down the throats of each Arab vie [read more] [get feed]

360East

Firefox overtakes Internet Explorer on 360east

[Click to enlarge] I haven’t looked at my site analytics for a while, so this evening I checked out some of my browser stats. It turns out that Firefox users (37% ) have overtaken Internet Explorer users (34%) on this site. So next time when som [read more] [get feed]

Frankom

Burj Khalifa: Closed a month after opening !

The world’s tallest skyscraper has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointing tourists headed for the observation deck and casting doubt over plans to welcome its first permanent occupants in the coming weeks. [read more] [get feed]

Maysaloon

Dhikr in Damascus

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Marketing 3.0.

Toyota|Hybrid ad|Prius app

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Frankom

ملهى ليلي في .. ميناء عبدالله

قبل أسبوعين تقريبا دار الحديث عبر المدونات عن (البار) الذي تم تصويره قبل ليلة رأس السنة ليتم تجهيزه للاحتفالات … واليوم الخبر موجود بالتفصيل عبر جريدة الوطن الكويتية Via Alwatan [read more] [get feed]

re:kuwait

An Arrogant Architect

Building on Jasem’s post a few days ago, i’d like to talk further about the responsibilities of an architect in Kuwait and the perception people have of our profession. Here are a few of the comments from that post: “Another problem we h [read more] [get feed]

Egyptian Chronicles

Hats Off Amr Adeeb

I usually criticize Amr Adeeb a lot in this blog , he is the TV host I love to hate with all his bias to the regime even if he denies it and his vulgar style of presentation not to mention his rudeness still I must admit that I respect what Adeeb did i [read more] [get feed]

American Bedu

Jizan, Saudi Arabia: A Pictural Tour

I had previously written about the history and background of Jizan.  I’ve not yet had the opportunity to personally see Jizan.  In learning this, one of my husband’s friends shared some photos of Jizan and particularly its unique souk.  The photos have ce [read more] [get feed]

Syria Comment

Economy Grows at 4%ish; Saudi Handshaking; Israeli-Syria Verbal Jousting

Global Crisis Had Limited Impact on Syrian Economy – IMF Report Syria Report:  08/02/2010 Syria’s economy continued to grow at about 4 percent last year, as the impact of the global crisis remained limited, an IMF report said. The report by the Inte [read more] [get feed]

Arab Crunch

SourceForge Simi Unblocks Syria, Sudan,Iran, N.Korea & Cuba- Freedom Loving Admins: Unblock Now

We waited for few days and nobody wrote about  it, so we moved on and broke the news with a guest post from Abdulrahman Idlbi as we were upset when SourceForge the world’s largest open source software hosting website, blocked around 171 million people fr [read more] [get feed]

360East

After the dust settled.. some iPad questions

The official release of the iPad is still some time away. Apple still has not disclosed all the details. And by the time the iPad hits the stores, developers would have already prepared a lot of great applications that will make the iPad very useful. [read more] [get feed]

Ad Blog Arabia

Buy a Lexus, fly to Beirut on a private jet

Advertising Agency: IDEA-JWT, Amman [read more] [get feed]

My World and More

Being Human.. rambling about hate.

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Frankom

Why McDonald’s? Why?

صارلي شهرين تقريبا وأنا بعيد عن ماكدونالدز … خلال هالشهرين أعلاناتهم وساندويشاتهم منتشرة بشكل مو طبيعي .. أو أن أنا قاعد أدورلي عذر؟ From Alrai [read more] [get feed]

2:48 AM [The B-Sides]

Perfect Soft Eggs

I am craving soft eggs which I don’t think I’ve had since the 80s. It’s all because I found this really cool guide on how to make the perfect soft eggs awhile back and since then I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. I sh [read more] [get feed]

Waleg

Afraid of Swine Flu?!

Are you sill afraid of catching the Swine Flu virus?... [read more] [get feed]

My World and More

If you have 6:30 minutes of tears, then please watch this

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Waleg

Nawal Al Zoghbi on “Akher Man Yaalam”

Nawal Al Zoghbi is going to appear tonight on MBC1 on the show ‘’Akher man yaalam”, where she reveals interesting things about her and an interesting talent you would never have guessed she had; imitating cartoon voices! The show... [read more] [get feed]

Muscat Confidential

Nawras Marketing tweet caught with a backfire - Suburban on how not to use social marketing!

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عبدالله المهيري

الرحلة الهندية - 4

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7aki Fadi

An Echo In The Bone

I am a big fan of the outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. The Outlander series is a story about a woman who lived around the time of world war II in the 1940’s who while visiting Scotland finds herself suddenly and inexplicably back 200 years in ti [read more] [get feed]

Waleg

Texting and Driving Is Deadly

Oprah did a whole show about texting and driving. People, mostly teens, actually die while doing that! In a new study, the University Of Utah realized that people who text are six times more likely to crash than the... [read more] [get feed]

The Sudanese Thinker

Kevin Kelly: The 2-Billion-Eyed Intermedia

Edge recently asked some of the world’s leading scientists, authors and thinkers the following question:”How has the internet changed the way you think?” One of my favorite answers came from the one and only, Kevin Kelly. And yes, I̵ [read more] [get feed]