This is a very sad day for the freedom of expression in the Middle East: Egyptian Blogger Sentenced to Prison ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — An Egyptian blogger was convicted of insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday in Egypt’s first prosecution of a blogger. Abdel Kareem Nabil, a …
Year: 2007
They even constructed a whole multi-story building to celebrate WordPress!
It was a good show and I met with great people who I have admired for a long time. It was wonderful to put faces to name and online personalities. The discussion was excellent, though probably too short of course to cover all the topics we wanted to cover; however, it is enough to entice …
I’ll be off to Kuwait this afternoon to appear on Dr. Shafiq Al-Ghabra’s forthcoming “Diwaniyat Al-Isbou – ديوانية الإسبوع” as one of the participants on the program which deals with the “Blogging Phenomenon” in Kuwait specifically and the Gulf generally. I am so looking forward to this! The program will be recorded tonight, but I …
We went to bury a relation yesterday. The old lady was ill for a long while unfortunately. She was much loved by her children, relations and the community around her. May she rest in peace now. This is the "Shi’a" cemetery in Hoora, in the Bahraini capital Manama. Due to the copious rains we’ve had …