A voir le nombre de commentaires qu’elle a suscités sur le Net, la vie sexuelle des Arabes, en particulier en Arabie saoudite, est un sujet qui passionne ! Rappel pour ceux qui n’ont pas suivi cette affaire: en juillet dernier, un Saoudien a eu la malheureuse idée de faire état de ses aventures galantes dans le cadre de « Ligne rouge » (الخط الأحمر), une émission tapageuse – et à succès – de la chaîne libanaise LBC (contrôlée par le milliardaire saoudien Al-Waleed Ibn Talal).
In 1962 a Japanese photographer visited a city in the Gulf called Dubai where he captured scenes from life there , after 47 years he came back to the same city with his photos as part of long time history.
Celebrations were in order. Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and his military leaders were enjoying what had become an annual commemoration of Egypt’s “victory” in the 1973 war against Israel that had given the Jewish state a wake-up call, ended its occupation of Sinai and culminated in a 1979 peace treaty brokered by then-American President Jimmy Carter.
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KUWAIT CITY — Kuwaiti writer and publisher Zayed al-Zaid, known for his anti-corruption campaigns, has been injured in an attack by an unidentified assailant, his electronic newsletter Alaan reported on Monday.
My friend Sean over at The Human Province sent me an email this morning speculating about whether there was anything to the rumor about the excellent Lebanese daily newspaper al-Akhbar launching an English version. The paper, while following a mostly pro-opposition line, is the only widely-read publication that regularly goes after parties on both sides of the political divide.
CAIRO: Fighting a rapidly growing government and local press campaign aimed at delegitimizing Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood group, the Islamic group issued a statement on Thursday that attempts to dispel much of the myths by claiming their ideology is “universal” by nature. The statement argues that throughout its history, the group “embodies all the meanings of reform.”
I wondered last month about the content Policy Yahoo! will follow with Maktoob after its acquisition. Well I discovered that it is beyond blogs content, Maktoob blogs are just the tip of the ice-berg !!
(RSF/IFEX) – Hamma Hammami, the former editor of the banned newspaper “Alternatives” and spokesman of the Communist Party of Tunisian Workers (PCOT), was badly beaten by police on arriving at Tunis international airport on 29 September 2009 from Paris, where he had criticised the government in an interview for Al Jazeera.
