Added on 12/01/2012
James M. Dorsey
2022 World Cup , Africa , airline , Al Ahly , Al Mannai , Asia , Bashar al-Assad , Brazil , CEO , CEO of Qatar , Doha , East Africa , Egypt , FIFA , Fifa World Cup , Iran , Japan , Latin America , Libya , Middle East , Noora Al Mannai , North Africa , Olympics 2020 , President , Qatar , Qatar 2022 , Qatar Airways , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Television network , The Wall Street Journal , Tunisia , Twitter , Yemen
JAMES M. DORSEY: Alcohol has been banned on the Pearl Qatar, dubbed the ‘Arab Riviera’. It’s the latest manifestation of internal discord.
Added on 10/01/2012
Mich Cafe
Dubai , Facebook , Haya Bint Al , Haya Bint Al Hussein , Jordan , Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum , princess , Sheikha Al Jalila , Social Media , Twitter , UAE , United Arab Emirates , Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
MICH CAFE: Facebook and Twitter, it appears, have taken over from newspapers in a key area of life. The recent arrival of a Royal baby in Dubai underlines this fact.
Added on 09/01/2012
Steve Royston
Afghanistan , Ali Khamenei , Alternative Energy , Anders Breivik , Brezhnev , Cambridge , China , Christmas , communications technology , Education , Europe , Facebook , Food and Drink , Google+ , Harvard , India , Internet users , Iowa , IPad , Iran , Iraq , Kim Jong-il , Kindle , North Korea , Norway , Oil and gas , Online media , Oxford , policeman , Politics , Qatar , Ron Paul , Russia , Saudi Arabia , Skype , Social Media , Social services , Society , Taliban , Technology , Twitter , Ukraine , United Kingdom , United States , US Federal Reserve , Vladimir Putin , Warren Buffett , YouTube
STEVE ROYSTON looks at the arts, society, education, politics, business, technology and the environment as we move into 2012, the Year of Fear’.
Added on 09/01/2012
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Anton Chekhov , Cairo , Egypt , Elliott Colla , Ibrahim Aslan , Literature , Nile , Poet , Tanta , Twitter
M. LYNX-QUALEY: He wrote about everyday lives filled with frustration and dead-ends but leavened by laughter. Farewell, Ibrahim, we’ll miss you
Added on 06/01/2012
Ahmed-Al-Omran
Abdul Aziz Khoja , Activist , Al Qaeda , Al Watan , Cairo , Democracy , Marriott Hotel , minister of information and culture , Ministry of Culture and Information , Paris , Riyadh , Saleh Al-Shehi , Saudi Arabia , Social Media , Twitter , Women , Women's issues
AHMED AL OMRAN: The fallout from the ‘Marriott Foyer Incident’ continues. Is such debate an unnecessary diversion from the real issues facing the Kingdom?
Added on 03/01/2012
Rob L. Wagner
Al Watan , Amal Zahid , Amira Kashgari , Facebook , Fiction , Islam , Jeddah , King Abdullah , Kul Al Watan , Marriott Hotel , Ministry of Interior , Novelist , Online media , princess , Print media , Riyadh , Saleh Al-Shehi , Saudi Arabia , Saudi government , Saudi women , Twitter , Women's Rights
ROB L. WAGNER: An online battle between conservatives and reformers following the Saudi Intellectual Forum illuminates their diverging opinions…
Added on 22/12/2011
Syria News Wire
Army , Bahrain , Bashar al-Assad , Damascus , Democracy , Egypt , Electronic Frontier Foundation , European Union , Facebook , Internet cafés , Internet users , Jillian York , Journalist , Mainstream media , Mobile Phones , President , satellite dishes , Singer , Skype , Social Media , Spy , Syria , Syrian Computer Society , Syrian government , Twitter , United States , Yahoo! , YouTube
NEWS FROM SYRIA: At first the authorities in Syria were caught unawares at how ‘new technology’ was used against them. But they caught on quickly.
Added on 29/11/2011
David Westley
Abdulkhaleq Abdullah , Abu Dhabi , Ahmed Abdul Khaleq , Ahmed Mansour Ali Abdullah Al , Fahad Salim Mohammed Salim , Hassan Ali Al Khamis , internet calling , Nasser Ahmed Khalfan bin Gaith , Oil wealth , pilot , President , Salim Mohammed Salim Dalk , the Vice President and the Crown Prince , The Wall Street Journal , Twitter , UAE , UAE government , United Arab Emirates
NEWS ANALYSIS: “This has become a very dividing case in the U.A.E.,” said Abdulkhaleq Abdullah… He’s not wrong: On Twitter some Emiratis called for the death sentence to be applied to the five.
Added on 03/11/2011
Crossroads Arabia
Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , Twitter , Women
CROSSROADS ARABIA: This is how customs change: People simply refuse to honor them. Women not driving will go in the same way…
Added on 20/10/2011
Common Ground News Service
Bahrain , Democracy , Egypt , Internet access , IPad , Social Media , Tunisia , Twitter
SAMAH HUSSAIN, CGNEWS: Social media has been credited with playing a major role in the revolutions of the last nine months but it’s had a huge impact on my political involvement during that time.
Added on 10/10/2011
Sultan Al Qassemi
Arab Gulf , Boston , Canada , Emiratis , Facebook , Gulf Arab , Harvard University , Kuwait , law student , Los Angeles , Oil , Qatar , Toronto , Twitter , Washington DC
SULTAN AL QASSEMI: Qatar, he told me, has one of the most impressive constitutions, as well as the most impressive parliamentary building. “Too bad there’s no parliament to occupy it,” he said.
Added on 30/09/2011
Common Ground News Service
Abdullah , Activist , Civil society , Facebook , Google+ , journalist and writer , Maha Akeel , Manal Al Sharif , Media outlets , Saudi Arabia , Social Media , Twitter , Yahoo! , YouTube
MAHA AKEEL, CGNEWS: It’s clearly enabled women in the Middle East in particular to express their views more vocally but there are limits to what social media can achieve in effecting real change.
Added on 24/09/2011
James M. Dorsey
Bashar al-Assad , Democracy , East Africa , Egypt , Facebook , Indonesia , Iran , Middle East , mobile telephony , North Africa , Philippines , President , Russia , Social Media , Syria , Tunisia , Twitter , United States , Zine El Abedine Ben Ali
JAMES M. DORSEY: Autocrats – and their advisers – around the region have clearly underestimated the power of social media. But how significant has it been in effecting real change?
Added on 17/09/2011
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
Arab Spring , Europe , Facebook , Hosni Mubarak , iPhone , IPod , John Stuart Mill , Middle East , Steve Jobs , Technology , The National , Twitter , United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom
SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED: Let’s not diminish the creativity and courage of the Arab Spring by attributing great sacrifice to amorphous, faceless technology.
Added on 11/09/2011
Rob L. Wagner
Abdullah , Activist , ARAMCO , ASBAR Center for Studies , Bahrain , Board of Grievances , Cairo , communication technology , Dammam , Egypt , Emir , European Union , Facebook , Fahd , Gamal Abdel Nasser , Grievances , Hamas , Hatton Al-Fassi , Holy Qur'an , Islam , Islamic Ennahda Party , Jeddah , John F Kennedy , Journalist , King Abdullah , King Saud University , King Saud University in Riyadh , Libya , London School of Economics , Madinah , Makkah , Middle East , Mohammed Fahad Al-Qahtani , Morocco , MTV , Muslim Brotherhood , Nadia Bakhurji , News media , Nora bint Abdullah Al-Fayez , North Africa , oil industry , Prophet Muhammad , Richard Nixon , Riyadh , Saud bin Abdul Aziz , Saudi Arabia , Saudi Council of Engineers , Saudi government , Shoura Council , Social Media , Syria , Tabuk , Tahrir Square , Tunisia , Tunisian government , Twitter , United States , Women's Rights , Yemen
ROB L. WAGNER: There has been a lot of criticism of Saudi Arabia’s upcoming municipal elections. Some groups, however, know how best to work the system.
Added on 09/09/2011
Matt J. Duffy
Anwar Gargash , Democracy , Elections , Federal National Council , The National , Twitter , UAE
MATT J. DUFFY: Some concerns have been raised about the stringency of the rules relating to public discourse in the UAE elections. Comments from a senior official, however, seem to have assuaged these concerns.
Added on 31/08/2011
Syria News Wire
Al Jazeera , Doha , Facebook , Journalism , London , Skype , Twitter , United Kingdom , United States
SYRIA NEWS WIRE: Al Jazeera recently launched ‘The Stream’ designed to bring the ‘holy grail’ of convergence to a worldwide audience. Have they succeeded?
Added on 17/08/2011
Common Ground News Service
Canada , Democracy , Dubai School , Egypt , Facebook , Fatah , International Monetary Fund , Muslim Brotherhood , Social Media , Tunisia , Twitter , United Arab Emirates , United States
MEHRUNISA QAYYUM, CGNEWS: Inspired by Twitter a grassroots Egyptian organisation has set up an online forum that limits participants to 140 seconds air time.
Added on 05/08/2011
The Ajnabi
Assad , BBC , Damascus , Protests , Ramadan , Syria , Tahrir Square , Twitter
THE AJNABI: It’s a cry that’s familiar from viewing images of Tahrir Square, Yemen and Hama but it’s the first time I’ve heard it in a wealthy, Damascus suburb.
Added on 04/08/2011
Ahmed-Al-Omran
Al-Hayat , Amnesty , Crown Prince , London , Mohammed Fahad Al-Qahtani , proposed law , Saudi Arabia , Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association , Saudi embassy in London , Shoura Council , Social Media , Twitter
AHMED AL-OMRAN: A leaked draft of a proposed, new anti-terror law has been leaked to Amnesty International. A predictable storm has erupted.