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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns - 20 hours ago
At Harvard, the star of Arabic A is a girl named Maha. Maha Muhammed Abulaal, to be precise. She's the pouty protagonist in the melodrama that runs throughout "Al-Kitaab," the standard beginning text in Arabic classes …
Also tagged: middle east, teaching, israël, palestine, new york, united states, lebanon, propaganda, beirut, egypt, and, cairo, jerusalem, georgetown university, harvard university, fairfax, suez canal, u s department of state, facebook inc, national endowment for the humanities, harvard law school, gamal abdel nasser, modern language association
globalvoicesonline.org » Global Voices Online » Weblog - Jun 17, 2008
With the world going digital, many newspapers are meeting the challenge by making their news pages accessible online. The Arab world is no different. Moroccan blogger M S Hjiouij [Ar] complains about the standard of a …
Also tagged: weblog, media, morocco, internet and 038 telecoms, middle east and 038 north africa
globalvoicesonline.org » Global Voices Online » Jordan - Jun 16, 2008
Arab bloggers held their breath waiting for an announcement on the fate of popular Arab blog aggregator Dwwen . After a bit of uncertainty, the all clear was given and it is business as usual for the site which brings …
Also tagged: weblog, jordan, cyber activism, internet and 038 telecoms, software and 038 tools, middle east and 038 north africa, blogger news
globalvoicesonline.org » Global Voices Online » Roundups - Jun 14, 2008
“Lately, I have discovered that my life is a long journey of waiting,” writes Saudi blogger Female [Ar].
Also tagged: ideas, roundups, saudi arabia, middle east and 038 north africa
globalvoicesonline.org » Global Voices Online » Bahrain - Jun 11, 2008
Bahraini blogger Ali Abdulemam [Ar] has received a letter from jailed fellow blogger Abdulla Mohsen. Mohsen has been in prison since the end of last year - on charges which include “the theft of a weapon and burning a …
Also tagged: politics, freedom of speech, roundups, bahrain, protest, middle east and 038 north africa
globalvoicesonline.org » Global Voices Online » Protest - Jun 11, 2008
Tunisian Annaqued [Ar] republishes a human rights communique protesting the death of a demonstrator during a stand off with police in the Rudayef protests, which have been going on since the beginning of the year.
Also tagged: human rights, roundups, labor, protest, humanitarian, tunisia, middle east and 038 north africa
globalvoicesonline.org » Global Voices Online » Middle East & North Africa - Jun 9, 2008
Egyptian Triple M shares videos of his favourite songs from the 90s in this post.
Also tagged: music, video, roundups, egypt, middle east and 038 north africa
globalvoicesonline.org » Global Voices Online » Development - Jun 9, 2008
Kuwaiti blogger Frankom [Ar] questions the source of information of an Arabic news site which reported that half of Kuwait's 1 million-strong population lives below the poverty line.
Also tagged: development, media, roundups, kuwait, middle east and 038 north africa
globalvoicesonline.org » Global Voices Online » Technology - Jun 9, 2008
Jordanian blogger Qwaider [Ar] ridicules some ideas by Arab inventors, which he says are “stupid.”
Also tagged: technology, roundups, jordan, middle east and 038 north africa
globalvoicesonline.org » Global Voices Online » Protest - Jun 7, 2008
Marwa Rakha , from Egypt, writes about an MP whose three young daughters have protested in favour of female genital mutilation in this post.
Also tagged: human rights, english, law, roundups, protest, gender, egypt, middle east and 038 north africa