Stories about Arabic from April, 2010
Egypt: Excellent Cat Meows for President Mubarak
Egyptians are quick to pounce on the opportunity to use all the social media tools at their disposal. Marwa Rakha takes a look at how bloggers and online peers mobilised themselves to poke fun at an editorial in a daily newspaper.
Morocco: Naoufel's Experience with Censorship Across Borders
One would expect that a dissenting voice is mainly threatened by local power's systems of censorship, but Naoufel, a talented Moroccan blogger was surprised to find out that his blog was actually banned outside of his country's frontiers.
Lebanon: First Threatened Voice
Lebanon has been known and envied in the MENA region for its free cyberspace. Well not any more since March has marked Lebanon's first cyber censhorship incident. Layal Al Khatib has more details in this post.
Lebanon: Culture of Racism and Discrimination
“Culture of Racism and Discrimination in Lebanon” is a new blog which aims to break the traditional ways in which research has been presented about racism and discrimination by being...
Lebanon: Organizing Blogging
Hanibaael posts an article in Arabic in which the blogger gives a short account of the history of blogging in Lebanon and the current attempt to organize Lebanese bloggers into...
Lebanon: The Lebanese Experiment
Ibrahim Arab writes an Arabic post in which he recounts his warning to an Iraqi television program that replicating the Lebanese type of elections and power sharing in Iraq is...
Lebanon: Paganism and Occultism
Hanibaael writes a lengthy Arabic post, with testimonies, about the belief and practice of paganism and occultism in Lebanon.
