Blogs Roundup

February 27, 2011

President Bashar Al-Assad Wife, Asma: "the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies." with her simple chic style.
12:10 GMT
First Ladies of the Mid East, Not forgetting Yemen & Bahrain ordeals, Starbucks the choice coffee of Arab pride, and Iraq has nothing to protest with the dirty work of leader hunting was done for them

February 26, 2011

New Burger Joints in Middle East cause grammar protests
20:31 GMT
National identity in the Middle East is not as straightforward as before (if it ever was) with new flags and challenges of loyalty versus rebellion. The Middle East undergoes an existential crisis...

February 24, 2011

Arabian dreams...
15:09 GMT
Arabian dreams become the stuff of nightmares as Saudi riots are predicted.
10:49 GMT
Remembering a Queen's Short-Lived Reign - but cherished legacy- as Queen Consort of Jordan on the 33rd anniversary of her death; Lebanese and Gay, Gay in the Middle East and Designer Babies, (or Not).

February 23, 2011

Aliens? A revolution from out of space? Some, suggested strange noises were an attack from 'outerspace' Wednesday 23rd February, Amman.
20:25 GMT
Jordan shudders to unidentified rumbles in a climate of unrest, natural disasters on the news and tension in the region.Saluting the Libyan people but not ignoring the un-hashed, and Cindarella's Blog
The love affair between 'Casanova' Berlesconi and Colonel Qaddafi has not lost its Italian Romance just yet
11:13 GMT
Both the subject of scandal, known to have met 11 times in the last 3years and keeping the affair going strong throughout the recent tensions testing the tie; Also, UK-side,Muslim and Gay and Happy?

February 22, 2011

The blogger community under legal watch.
15:20 GMT
The precedent on Suing Bloggers (well, we've had imprisoned bloggers), cakes in Kuwait,Profiles of Arabs in the Morning,Facebook apps, and those without nationality(not Palestinians),&not 'Kuwaity's'.
Ninja cartoon famed April O Neil, the plucky intrepid female reporter never shying from the fray...(then again she had her male turtle guards!)
10:56 GMT
Lara's Tahrir Assault&its impact on female reporting from the field, Libya's not the same as Tunisia or Egypt, Jordan's not the same.. Stop lumping all the Arab countries under one (Libyan) umbrella!

February 21, 2011

Gaddafi’s has history of using of state-sponsored murder: including in the 80s in Italy.
15:00 GMT
Leading to Libya, how Gaddafi did not serve himself by his comments on Tunisia, Into Jordan's Cyber Commentary, and Google Griping is Gone as Google Tranlate address the conspiracies circulating.
I hereby name you FACEBOOK. Go forth and add friends!!
09:19 GMT
Facebook baby boom, Coke's secret ingredient not for Muslims, not laughing@Libya,& on Youtube: we have upandcoming Lebanon novel &a Jordanian pair produce some fine 90s pop parody, bored in the Gulf!

February 20, 2011

Google recently made headlines in the Revolution with Wael Ghonim, now someone's trying to drag it into the Mid-East fray again!
21:30 GMT
Google's keeping Israel on the map (at least in Arabic)! Revolutionary Rhymes and Rhapsodies, Syria uncovered, Libya re-connected.
Syria has a diverse community, usually quite subdued.
12:20 GMT
Staying with the Levant, we look at Syria and Jordan to see if there are mere whisperings or something more ominous.

February 19, 2011

He'd rather not see/ Gaddafi blackout of internet from Facebook, Twitter, Aljazeera.net.
16:39 GMT
Seeking the Humor amidst the Revolutionary storm: As Libya loses Facebook, we visit the walls of revolutionary groupies, we home into the rebels' fashion and then take close ups at home in Jordan.

February 17, 2011

Foreign press and reporters under fire:  finding themselves caught up in  the protest.
20:41 GMT
U.S. media and coverage, the rising popularity of AlJazeera English in the States, The view from the U.S., and from the new Bahrain Tahrir Sq, the voice of the vanguard, on not Blogging for the sake.
Madonna meets Shimon Peres: Hollywood stars have been found flirting with religion in recent times as Madonna famously dabbled in Kabbalah, a Jewish mystical doctrine.
12:57 GMT
Like speed dating you can now try religion out for a week as she moves on to Buddhism, Expats in Jordan, Expats in General, More Lies and Statistics in internet censorship...