First ever Egyptian female anchor wearing the hijab

Published September 4th, 2012 - 07:45 GMT

Fatima Nabil is the first ever covered new anchor for Egyptian TV.

And Egypt got its first veiled news anchor

Fatima Nabil has entered the history of Egyptian Television as the first veiled news anchor.

Nabil is the first among 3 veiled news anchors that will appear in Ch.1 and Nile News of Egyptian TV starting from today.

If I am not mistaken Fatima Nabil’s co-news anchor today was a Christian.

Source: Egyptian Chronicles

Radio Discussion: Can Syria's fragmented opposition come together

Listen to a radio discussion about the future of the Syrian uprising that I participated in on The Voice of Russia.

Source: Karl reMarks

The Cell

An Arab blogger gives her take on the new film by Jennifer Lopez. Is it a must see or a snoozer?

Source: Chasing Pavements

Quick Thoughts on The Smoking Ban

As a supporter of the ban, you’ll be hearing a lot of arguments on why what the government is doing is bad, pointless, evil, or ill-timed. There are many good responses to those arguments, and you can find some of them here. But I want to focus in this post on two arguments: