Blogs Roundup

January 19, 2011

Queen Rania. Difficult to fault?
10:45 GMT
A blogger in Jordan defends Queen Rania from ungracious comments over twitter, a Tunisian writes ‘our time is now’, and do you support causes, or simply ‘cause support’?

January 18, 2011

SEPTEMBER 11: Protesters attend a pro-mosque rally near the proposed mosque near the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2010 in New York City
07:00 GMT
Dubious media coverage of events in Tunisia, Hizbullah running scared, "Loonwatch" dubs 2010 the "year of Islamophobia" and what do you want as a citizen?

January 17, 2011

According to Emirates Economist 96% of HR positions being held by women, and "plain-looking women" have a 22% better chance of getting a job.
07:00 GMT
Bloggers in Jordan get political, Gaddafi entertains Tunisia, why sometimes 'imitation is not the sincerest' form of flattery and can being a good looking girl ruin your career?

January 16, 2011

A Jordanian boy holds a placard reading "be aware of my hunger and anger" during a protest in Amman, on January 14, 2011
09:00 GMT
The 8.7 million dollar tweet, the five drivers you don't want to meet, maya on domestic workers, a pre-occupied taxi driver in Beirut, and is Jordan really in need of a reboot?

January 14, 2011

People hold a banner reading "Tunisia, stop massacre" during a demonstration against Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 11, 2011 in Paris
19:04 GMT
Tunisa and France, the 'two-stepper' in Saudi, paranoia in Beirut, the Samsung gallery, and getting over a grudge.

January 13, 2011

"I am so confused by this- The religion says that we are all equals. But his family (who are also of strong faith) will only accept a Muslim Saudi wife for their son" writes a reader on American Bedu blog.
07:27 GMT
The reality behind the sweet nothings in Saudi, McDonalds gets an intercom in Kuwait, seeing what you want to see, while various bloggers weigh in on events in Lebanon.

January 12, 2011

A poster of Iraqi journalist Muntazer Al-Zaidi, who famously threw a shoe at President George Bush in 2008.
10:27 GMT
How the 'retweet' button is being stolen on twitter, what is 'snooki', a look around the citadel in Amman and Istanbul, and what's with the shoe throwing thing?

January 11, 2011

Tunisia: not so democratic after all?
08:07 GMT
The uprising may not have been adequately reported, but at least it had a hash-tag. Also in today's blogs: the 'smell' of Apple, violence in Jordan, Layla,, sexual harassment, and divorce in Saudi.

January 10, 2011

Art work said to be by underground artist Banksy is seen on the fence at the Glastonbury Festival site at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 24, 2010 in Glastonbury, England.
07:17 GMT
Lebanon's new years resolutions, shopping in Jordan and Saudi, the Fiat 500, Lebanon's 2011 'things to do' and a graffiti artist in Amman gets more than he bargained for

January 9, 2011

Convention attendees use Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablets at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 6, 2011
05:55 GMT
On belonging, living with brittle brone disease, dancing in Union Square, the suspicious halo of Khamenei, Zaatar and your IQ and is Google Android the future?

January 8, 2011

The Starbucks logo would probably look a little different if Saudi Arabia was designing it...
13:06 GMT
Repression in Tunisia, sexual intifada in Beirut, taste in Amman, an Armenian Christmas and what would the starbucks logo look like if Saudi Arabia was designing it?

January 6, 2011

Expats in Saudi - looking for a release?
09:14 GMT
Seating and cheating in Saudi, what never happened in 2010, what to do with a million dollars and is your mind "like water"?

January 5, 2011

Jaraad quotes the National Geographic to suggest that white people... are in decline.
12:20 GMT
Murder in Pakistan, food-scarcity in Gaza, blogging in Bahrain, pet shops in the Kuwait, penions in Qatar, rumors in Egypt and wave good bye to Belgian chocolate... and tanning oil...

January 4, 2011

Is Arabic really that hard to learn?
10:03 GMT
Fortune telling in Cinnamon Zoo, painting the roads in Abu Dhabi, the ancient sites of Iraq, Christians in Egypt, Muslim women in America and is learning Arabic in Saudi really all that hard?

January 3, 2011

Egyptian Coptic Christians mourn during Sunday mass on January 2, 2011 at the Al-Qiddissine (The Saints) church in Alexandria which was targeted on New Year's Eve by a car bomb attack in which 21 people were killed.
09:17 GMT
Another side to Tunisia, the 13 kinds of Facebook photo's, the story of Caliph Omar Bin Al-Khattab and why write a graduation project when you can buy one?