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• Little Dignity Won’t hurt Anyone

  I read a very strange comment regarding the decision of the work force minister's decision to bar the Egyptian doctors from working in KSA. That comment or rather opinion says "Ok people stop... Posted Nov 19 2008, 11:43 PM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: News, Human Rights, Egypt, middle east, citizen Journalism, Life, Arab, mideast, regional, National, Follow Up, Arabs, Economy, Saudi Arabia, Egyptians, Egyptian Life, doctors

• Edge of Arabia

  Edge of Arabia is an art exhibition displaying in London, UK where it showcases the new wave of contemporary art of 17 Saudi artists. Artists participating include; Faisal Samra, Manal Al Dowayan, Abdulnasser... Posted Nov 19 2008, 05:48 AM by Fann 3arabi | Arabic Art Filed under: Photography, Saudi Arabia, Traditional, Mixed Media, Paintings, Drawings, Publications, Installations

• 20 Countries

  20 Countries in the World according to an American Presidential order in 2004 were an open playground to the American army to lauch raids whenever where ever in those 20 countries it wants. I guess some... Posted Nov 12 2008, 12:06 AM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: Egypt, Arab, politics, international, Syria, America, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, war, National Security, Pakistan, Gulf, War on terrorism

• Saudi Arabia’s Goats Beauty Pageant

  Are these the ugliest creatures you’ve ever seen or what? This is Saudi’s idea of a beauty pageant, goats the winner is this hideous goat names “Qahr”, Arabic for defeating and... Posted Nov 08 2008, 03:49 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Interesting, Saudi Arabia, Stuff, Arabia, Jazar, Dump

• Sama Airlines | Designed around you

  Read More... Posted Nov 07 2008, 05:08 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Interesting, Saudi Arabia, TV Commercials

• The first national hunger strike in Saudi Arabia

  This is the first time I hear about this in a Gulf country like Saudi Arabia ,it is impressive , so impressive. There is a hunger strike going on in the Kingdom today Thursday and Friday organized by a... Posted Nov 06 2008, 01:01 PM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: News, Human Rights, middle east, citizen Journalism, Blogging, Arab, Democracy, mideast, regional, Saudi Arabia, Blogger, Gulf, Rushdi Al Gadir, Hunger Strike

• Saudi Telecom STC new identity TVC

  Couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the new identity of STC, here is the TVC. The funny thing is that the new identity is the same of an Indonesian telco that STC acquired, pretty stupid, and what I found... Posted Nov 04 2008, 01:07 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Saudi Arabia, marketing, TV Commercials, Arabia

• Mobile Subscribers Sector In Saudi Arabia To Expand By 27%

  The mobile subscribers sector in Saudi Arabia will expand by over 27 per cent in 2008, lifting the official mobile penetration rate to 144 per cent, according to Business Monitor International (BMI). The... Posted Nov 02 2008, 02:24 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Saudi Arabia, mobile, Reports, Mobile Penetration, broadband, Fixed line penetration

• Artwitter.com; An Arabic Interface For Twitter

  Even though there is an Arabic micro-blogging service called Watwet that is very similar to Twitter in functionality, a lot of Arab users have chosen to use Twitter instead, maybe because it has mostly... Posted Oct 11 2008, 02:30 PM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Blogging, Saudi Arabia, Startups, watwet, Micro-Blogging, Arabic Twitter, Mohamed Al Rehaili, artwitter.com

• Interesting Ambient approach to promote Saudi Bowling Competition

  Advertising Agency: Impact BBDO Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Creative Director: Ahmad Beck Art director: Bobby Saguisi Copywriter: Ziad Chehab via Read More... Posted Oct 05 2008, 06:31 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Interesting, cool, Saudi Arabia, Ambient/BTL, Amazing

• cleaning cars causes crashes

  Hmmmm . Her son, who used to own a Porsche while studying in Canada, believed that the evil eye caused him to crash his car. When he first brought the car to Canada from Jeddah, his mother put black seeds... Posted Oct 04 2008, 09:35 AM by bint battuta in bahrain Filed under: Religion, Saudi Arabia, Psychology, evil eye

• Zain | IPO Flags

  Read More... Posted Sep 26 2008, 03:04 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Interesting, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, TV Commercials

• Untiny, A Tool To Expand Shortened URLs

  A bunch of URL shortening services have been popping up everywhere recently, made popular by the advent of micro-blogging, each offering users the base functionality to take long urls and shorten them... Posted Sep 25 2008, 02:20 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Saudi Arabia, Startups, Tools, URL Expansion, Saleh Al-Zaid, Untiny

• The Trouble with Mickey and Harry

  As with fashion, so too must fatwas move with the times. Earlier this year, Barbie was the great Sataness, but now the plastic princess must relinquish her fluffy throne, and prepare to succumb Mattel... Posted Sep 22 2008, 08:05 AM by Caledoniyya Filed under: middle east, Israel, Islam, Culture, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Pop Culture, Disney

• Again it is the captain fault !!??

  Mamdouh Ismail again and again is making the headlines, the runaway NDP MP who has not dare to come back  from London after the infamous court rule till now . I remember that I received a comment... Posted Sep 19 2008, 02:51 AM by Egyptian chronicles Filed under: News, Egypt, citizen Journalism, Arab, National, Follow Up, Saudi Arabia, transportation, Mamdouh Ismail, Red Sea, Salam 98, Salam 98 Ferry, Dhiba

• Hend Al Mansour

  “Walladah” - silkscreen print Born in 1956 in Saudi Arabia and raised in the US. She received her education from Cairo University and Minneapolis College of Arts & Design. Al Mansour’s... Posted Sep 18 2008, 02:34 PM by Fann 3arabi | Arabic Art Filed under: Saudi Arabia, Traditional, Paintings, Drawings, Installations

• Aroma Coffee | Wake up!

  Advertising Agency: Impact BBDO Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Creative & Art Director: Ahmad Beck Copywriter: Ahmad Beck Photography: Stock, Steeve Kozman via Read More... Posted Sep 17 2008, 09:12 PM by jazarah! Filed under: Ads, Saudi Arabia

• Saudi Telecom STC launches a new corporate identity

  Saudi Telecom STC has announced a new corporate identity, personally I though it’s much much better than the old one, however I didn’t really get the new one, but it seems fresher than before... Posted Sep 16 2008, 01:15 PM by jazarah! Filed under: Interesting, Saudi Arabia, marketing

• Watwet Redesigns, Now Supports Mobliy the Second KSA’s Mobile Operator.

  Watwet the micro blogging & social networking Arabian clone of Twitter has launched a new design today with some new features. ( I have reviewed watwet in the past here) What is new: The new design... Posted Sep 16 2008, 05:01 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Jordan, Arab World, Blogging, Amman, Saudi Arabia, mobile, Social Media, sms, Zain, Ikbis, Startups, Mobile 2.0, watwet, twitter, e-marketing, Social Networking, Telecom, KSA, MMS, Mobily, theme, Where 2.0, iToot

• Against Early Marriages

  A new women's rights group in Saudi Arabia is launching a campaign against early marriages. The members demand making the minimum age of marriage 17 for females and 18 for males. They also demand that... Posted Sep 09 2008, 05:15 PM by Improvisations: Arab Woman Progressive Voice Filed under: Saudi Arabia, early marriage

• No More Cake

  The highest religious authority in Saudi Arabia says that birthday parties are un-Islamic, a western influence, and should not be celebrated . I just love how these religious authorities are always alert... Posted Sep 07 2008, 11:08 AM by Improvisations: Arab Woman Progressive Voice Filed under: Saudi Arabia

• Amazon Joins Taufeer.com E-Channel Retailers Program

  Taufeer.com, part of Riyadh-based Taufeer Information Systems LLC, a leading e-commerce service provider, today announced that amazon.com, one of the world’s largest online retailers, has joined Taufeer... Posted Sep 07 2008, 10:03 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Saudi Arabia, Startup News, e-commerce, Taufeer.com, Taufeer, Online Shopping, Amazon, Taufeer.com E-Channel

• Zain | One World

  Read More... Posted Sep 02 2008, 11:47 PM by jazarah! Filed under: Jordan, Ads, Interesting, cool, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Arabia

• TweetSMS Launched Today Enabling Twitter SMS in 190 Countries Including Many Arab States

  TweetSMS has been launched today after around a week of internal testing, the launch was scheduled yesterday, but apparently they had some hiccups which lead to delaying the launch to today. As reported... Posted Aug 27 2008, 10:31 AM by ArabCrunch Filed under: Egypt, Jordan, Arab World, international, Syria, UAE, Europe, Kuwait, UK, USA, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, Tunisia, mobile, Web 2.0, sms, Zain, Asia, Mobile 2.0, twitter, Twitter SMS, TweetSMS, Japan, Italy, Australia, Oman, Algeria, Libya Arab Jamahiriya, and Lebanon, ZygoTweet, twitMobile, Sudan, France, wtwet, Norway, Morocco, 2 way SMS, Denmark

• Dial 059 for Zain Saudi Arabia

  Saudi Arabia joins Zain’s One Network, the leading mobile operator announced today the launch of its operations in Saudi Arabia. In March 2007 Zain, MTC then, announced that it made the highest bid... Posted Aug 25 2008, 07:54 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Saudi Arabia, marketing, Arabia

• bloggers of bahrain, you are not forgotten...

  I was asked yesterday why I’m not doing Global Voices blog roundups anymore, as I used to. In fact, I am doing more work for Global Voices than ever before – just not on Bahraini blogs. That is due to... Posted Aug 23 2008, 06:01 AM by bint battuta in bahrain Filed under: Palestine, Blogging, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Translation

• The World’s Richest Royals according to Forbes

  Forbes has issued a list that featured the richest Royals in the world, below is the ranking along with the net fortune, you can also see the photo of each one sorted from left to right, up to down. 1... Posted Aug 22 2008, 11:22 AM by jazarah! Filed under: media, Interesting, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Lists, Arabia, Oman

• Anti-Terror Cartoons

  In recent years cartoons have proved a hot topic in association with the depiction of the Prophet, and politically sensitive topics in the Middle East. However, since June 2008, following the arrest of... Posted Aug 21 2008, 11:43 AM by Caledoniyya Filed under: middle east, Culture, art, Religion, Terrorism, Saudi Arabia, Imagery

• PEPSI | Dare for more

  Advertising Agency: Impact BBDO Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Read More... Posted Aug 20 2008, 02:21 AM by jazarah! Filed under: Interesting, cool, Saudi Arabia, TV Commercials

• Mafgod, A Service To Find Your Lost Or Stolen Items

  Mafgod, is a really simple service from Saudi Arabia, with the aim of helping people find their lost or stolen items. For the time being, the service is only available for users in Saudi Arabia, and only... Posted Aug 19 2008, 07:56 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Saudi Arabia, Startups, Tools, Mafgod

• Taufeer.com E-Channel Opens Online Markets To Saudi Retailers

  Riyadh-based online shopping service Taufeer.com has launched their new ‘E-Channel’ service to enable retailers in Saudi Arabia to get their products online. They aim for this new service to... Posted Aug 15 2008, 06:50 AM by StartUpArabia Filed under: Saudi Arabia, Startup News, e-commerce, stores, Taufeer.com

• Diet Club | Members vs. Non-Members

  So simple and smart! Advertising Agency: Impact BBDO Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Read More... Posted Aug 13 2008, 09:08 PM by jazarah! Filed under: Ads, cool, Saudi Arabia, Smart, Amazing

• Imagine

  For some reason I still remember the words of this commercial till now, once i say imagine in Arabic i continue with the rest… I think we used to make fun of it a lot in my school in Saudi Arabia... Posted Feb 08 2008, 02:48 PM by OceanCreep - Ibrahim Owais's Blog Filed under: my life, Saudi Arabia, Advertising, Middle East Ads

• Resources and its use.

  Resources are the basic unit of development in any country. The first responsibility of any government is to manage these resources for the benefit of their people. There is a concept which is supposed... Posted Feb 02 2008, 04:26 AM by Politikia and the Society Filed under: Egypt, politics, Democracy, Freedom, dictatorship, V for Vendetta, Saudi Arabia, Revolution, Lybia, Slang sucks, Justice, Chaos, Iran

• Fouad Al Farhan Arrested

  Saudi Blogger Arrested Fouad Al Farhan, a leading Saudi blogger, has been arrested in Jeddah about two weeks ago. The reasons behind the detention of Al Farhan remain unclear, but it is known that he had... Posted Dec 24 2007, 04:49 AM by Politikia and the Society Filed under: Human Rights, Bloggers, Detention, Freedom, Saudi Arabia, Slang sucks, Fouad Al Farhan, Police