Haitham Sabbah · November, 2005

Latest posts by Haitham Sabbah from November, 2005

Saudi Arabia: Lash, Right Away

Saudi Jeans writes that the latest of Saudi religious police's creations is to lash boys who harass girls in public in the same place of the harassment, right away.

23 November 2005

Political Freedom

Abdulhadi Khalaf (in Arabic) and Sabbah (in English) writes about political freedom in the Middle East, as ranked by Economist research and published by BBC Arabic (in Arabic).

23 November 2005

Jordan: HIV Status in Jordan

Jameed says that the efforts of the Health Communications division should be applauded; they barely have any financial resources, they don't have many volunteers, and they just recently hired a...

22 November 2005

Jordan: New government

Khalaf is feeling depressed today because he sences that a new government is in the making. What is bothering him is that he feels that these changes don't seem to...

22 November 2005

Israel: Ariel Sharon leave the Likud

So, Ariel Sharon decided to leave the Likud and form a new political party. How does this sound in the Israeli blogsphere? Well, Lisa participated in the BBC radio programme...

22 November 2005

Iraq: Cairo conference

Mohammed thinks that the Iraqi parties had originally joined the meeting to show that they’re not against a national reconciliation or against what can solve the crisis in Iraq. However,...

22 November 2005

Iraq: When Should US Army leave?

Hassan explains why he believes that Iraqis are not interested to discuss ‘When US Army is leaving Iraq’. Instead, he says that Iraqis are more interested in the coming elections...

22 November 2005

Egypt: HIV+

Mostafa says that probably people reading this already know that the moral stigma of HIV is getting more people infected. The ignoramuses fearing that people would be promiscuous because of...

22 November 2005

Jordan: How to cope with a disaster?

Arrabi recommends reading “I Lived In The Garden Of Allah” (By R.V.C. Bodley), which Arrabi says it's very inspiring in how to cope with disaster, especially in light of the...

21 November 2005

Jordan: Visit Finland

Rami, the MA student in Global Journalism at Örebro University, Sweden has an outstanding piece describing his visit to Finland. He says, “It is no wonder that J.R.R. Tolkien found...

21 November 2005

Morocco: Moroccan King Pardons 10,000

Samir of The View From Fès reports that King Mohammed VI of Morocco has pardoned or reduced the prison sentences of 10,000 people to mark the 50th anniversary of independence....

18 November 2005

Bahrain: Proud Bahraini

SillyBahrainiGirl says: “How are the football players faring? I doubt that all of them are enjoying the perks of life, if they had to play under the threat of getting...

18 November 2005

United Arab Emirates: Stone Age

secretdubai describe Sharjah as the “Stone Age” emirate. Why? Two women were abducted and raped by fake taxi drivers and complain to police. What did Sharjah police do? Charge the...

17 November 2005

Jordan: Terror in the digital domain

Zeid Nasser calls to unite to denounce the actions of terror groups, also to be vigilante on the Internet, keeping an eye open to subversive and suspicious activities. “It's the...

16 November 2005

Jordan: Jordanians Disapprove Al-Qaida

Natasha says that almost two thirds of Jordanians have changed their views of Al-Qaida for the worse following suicide bombings against Amman hotels. She feels very sad and extremely frustrating...

16 November 2005