Blogs Roundup

April 26, 2011

Delayed news of a dead loved one can increase the traumatic impact.
My mother's dead but no-one told me! Denied Grief
09:51 GMT
On a cultural habit of withholding bad news from our loved ones to protect them;The region's political dramas are heating up and inching closer to the heart of the Levant and the Greater Syria sphere.

April 25, 2011

You'd be forgiven for associating Lebanese wine with holy communion or Easter, but Lebanon is selling a very different story today.
Lebanese Wines- the Sexiest in the World?
15:31 GMT
Quotes from a Financial Time article on some Lebanese wine experts, Mac users versus PC users and their character traits, a British treat of an interview between two famous celebrities on 'celebrity'.
Internet searches via Google are rocketing the Carbon Footprint
Is the Internet Killing the Planet?
08:21 GMT
Surfing online is sapping your environment, Jordan could join the Gulf States in the GCC, and Palestine continues to name things after the Italian hero Vitorrio.

April 24, 2011

Does life as we knew it change radically after marriage?
Life not the way you knew it after marriage
23:27 GMT
A newly wed compares the now to the before, probing into the Armenian Genocide at Easter, and What's all the Social Media nonsense really about?
Seasonal biscuits- in the Arab world, certain cookies are served for Easter.
Easter cookies all round!
19:33 GMT
Easter treats, musings from a thirty something, and a Lebanese tale of immigration and tracing the roots.

April 23, 2011

Lady Gaga usually played on autoplay on the Lebanon airwaves banned with her Judas controversial hit.
Judas absent from Lebanon this Easter
14:17 GMT
All things banned in free-spirit Lebanon, stressed out in the region, football is not life- an appeal to footballers to tone it down,TEDxRamallah continues to spin tales, and marking death in theater.

April 21, 2011

Comparing the romantic idyll so many of us are raised with to the sobering reality
Enough with the romanticism already!
14:34 GMT
Keeping it real, a reminder that real life at odds with our romantic notions, European lunch breaks in the park applied to the ME, Amman Tech Tuesdays event, a review of best Arab propaganda.
Kids and guns has always been a taboo subject
Gunz N Kidz
12:22 GMT
The right to guns, the right to niqabs, taking a break from a relationship with the city of Beirut.
Time to clean up your act for Spring, especially if you didn't apply your New Year's resolutions.
A Spring Clean
09:03 GMT
Tackling the renewal cycle and cleaning up your act come Spring, coordinating your attire to the brand, and a poll of Beirutis on their take on the larger picture.

April 20, 2011

The form that fills these elaborate dresses must be suitably made-up to match the dress; hence the big trade of wedding make-up.
Lebanese Bridal Needs versus Guests'
20:14 GMT
Lebanese brides should should not have their thunder stolen by female guests? Don't forget Lebanese politics, a new sparky Jordanian mag on the scene, and ingredients of a successful relationship.

April 19, 2011

Arabs abroad (tourists) like to photograph the Golden Arches, says an Arab resident in the U.S.
What Arabs Like to Photograph
15:15 GMT
Arabs abroad snap up obese people, blondes, and the rest of this list, time and time again, says an observer, a Yemen woman shares her thoughts on single sex protesting, and hashtags in advertising.
iPhoneography of the day: Damascus through an iPhone 4 lens
12:57 GMT
Tracking our Levantine iPhonographer capturing Damascus to Amman, the low-down on TED as it visits Abu Dhabi, buying cheaper property in Lebanon, Syrian comedy, an outside-inside view of Revolutio

April 18, 2011

Walking for fitness: reaps benefits and can be done on a Corniche, treadmill or while shopping
Don't run before you have walked: Walk Kuwait to burn Calories
15:25 GMT
Walking as an alternative to intense spot of running can not only be gentler on limbs but effective, racism from Israel not just toward Palestinians, Yemen leader split on women, Amman's street-life.
Dating decently in Beirut - while not a walk in the park, does not have to be a walk on the wild side either
Dating in Beirut: Not so different for Beirutis
12:07 GMT
How to date in Beirut and avoid the pitfalls, Vintage shopping in Cairo cam turn your home into a laughing-stock, Sufiism, Social Media, the woman everyone's talking about- Suad Amiry at TED.
Revolution brought by outsiders or imperial powers, say the U.S of A? or home-brewed?
Taking Credit for a Revolution: burning man or U.S. influence?
02:31 GMT
A lot of Arabs found the Gene Sharp theory patronizing, this idea bandied about early in the Rev, that an American thesis had been borrowed by the uprising. Each revolution has its own playing field.