On Jan. 27th, the Examiner pulled the offensive advertisement it published earlier this month. The Examiner: “It has been brought to our attention that a recent advertisement published in Media Week promoting The Examiner has caused concern and offence to readers. On behalf of Clarity Media Group and The Examiner in Washington and San Francisco, [...]

Well, as all participants probably know by now, the voting in BABA 2004 has been stopped due to some irresponsible actions of some irresponsible individuals. I would like to thank our friend Haitham and Mahmood for creating the FIRST Arab Blogger Awards EVER! What happened does not make their efforts less, and does not mean [...]

Another post inspired by Subzero Blue (I was so excited that I added 5 more points to the list )If I were a musical instrument, I’d be a flute. If I were a song, I’d be “I will survive”.If I were a word, I’d be “Hope”.If I were a color, I’d be green.If I were [...]

I’ve been working really hard lately, and during my one year in my current job I’ve trained myself into various software applied by the company I work for. As I was told, I’ve been doing a great job so the manager in the mother company put my name on the list of employees to go [...]

Viva Palestine! Haitham Sabbah announced the launch of PalestineBlogs.com, echoing the sentiments of Pro-Palestine and Anti-Zionist.The new blog will provide users with a comprehensive overview of Palestine’s current and previous issues; news clippings; reblog news; debate forum (forum currently under construction) and a lot more. Invitations will be sent soon to some pro-Palestine bloggers to [...]

And this pic is of the corner we made for the Holy Eid Al Adha in our home. It has mom’s chocolates, greeting cards my family sent for the occassion, the Holy Quran, some other chocolates and some ma3moul I was strong enough to resist eating

My husband and I were preparing some Eid Adha pics to send to my family when I thought I’d share a couple with you. This one is a pic of mom’s home-made chocolates, a specialty of hers on Eid Al Adha. The pic is featuring our cute yummy sheep and is surrounded with different shapes [...]

The Electronic Intifada calls on its readers to protest an advertisement for the San Francisco Examiner and Washington Examiner newspapers demonizing Palestinian children. The advertisement appeared in the 24 January 2005 of Media Week, a trade publication. The advertisement aims to attract advertisers to the Examiner newspapers. It includes a picture of a girl playing [...]

“Der GPRS Zeitalter in Tunesien hat endlich eingebrochen! Jetzt können Kunden von Tunicell gegen eine Gebühr von 5 Dinars/Monat den MMS Service nutzen. Eine MMS bis 100 KB kostet 500 Millimes(jede MMS kostet 500 Millimes, die nicht in den 5 Dinars drin sind). Unklar ist, wie gut die GPRS Netzabdeckung ist, und wann die Kunden [...]

This is a great article I found at Bouillabaisse. The article was written by “WhyNot” of Pourquoi Pas? in response to an ongoing conversation concerning rampant racism in France. The article has a very interesting discussion that includes both Muslims & Arabs and Jews. I chose to only post the part about Jews, because of [...]