Arabisc: Prison Adventures and a Yemeni Cure for Aids! · Global Voices
Amira Al Hussaini

Remember Egyptian blogger  Abdul Kareem Nabeel Sulieman? Well, he is still being detained and investigated on five charges, which include incitement to hate Islam, spreading malicious rumours that disrupt public security and defaming the Egyptian President.
From prison, Kareem smuggles notes for his friends to blog and tell the world about his plight. His arrest has made him come to the realisation that speaking his mind has put him in danger.
Kareem, who was detained in early November and who is being held in custody until a hearing on December 16, says he doesn't expect to be released anytime soon. Meanwhile, he has to continue to stomach pain at a detention centre swarming with drug peddlers, petty criminals and thieves, among other colourful characters, who would do anything to exchange their cells with a hospital bed.
From the darkness of Kareem's prison cell let's move to Tunisia, where Subzero Blue tells us about a new miracle cure for Aids, developed and tested in Yemen.
And since we have mentioned Yemen, let's stop at an interesting blog by Saudi Anas Qasim, which keeps track of funny adverts, shop signage, billboards, signs and the like. Here  he posts a sign put up in a hospital in Yemen which says people with guns and daggers will not be permitted! (See picture above)
Away from the Arab region, Jordanian blogger Omar Al Azabi reports to us how a newly elected US congressman is hoping to take his oath to office on the Holy Quran instead of the Bible next month.
Speaking of Jordan, let us make our last stop this week a post by Jordanian blogger Qwaider, who is based in the US and has just returned to his country for a holiday. While back home, he remembered a photograph taken by one his colleagues of a Jordanian flag flying on the skies of Amman and thought that he too, would take a similar shot – if not better. But that was not to be the case!
After much questioning by the police after he asked them for permission to take a picture of the flag, he was verbally reprimanded and threatened that if he ever tried taking a photograph of the flag from that location .. he may be .. erm.. subjected to further action!!
If I were Qwaider.. I would say: No thanks!