Belated Egyptian Valentine: Revolutions are Red, Mubarak is Blue

Egyptian Valentine's Day jokes from the heart of the revolution; Israelis make inappropriate comments about Palestinian children deaths on Facebook; Saudi humor T-shirts, ranging from cool to laugh out loud funny; Beirut's night time activities revealed; Friendship- that everlasting love.

Hosni Mubarak on a gurney, Suzanne Mubarak possibly under house arrest- these two have probably seen better Valentine's Days.

A Sense of Belonging [2]

Revolutionary Valentine’s Day Humor

"I would catch a tear gas canister for you" Hosni Mubarak jokes are quite commonplace since he got ousted. With Valentine's Day come and gone, this Egypt-based blogger shares some belated Valentine's Mubarak jokes that just had to be shared. Luckily, none are in poor taste.

Abir Kopty [3]

Israelis on Facebook celebrating the death of Palestinian children

Speaking of poor taste, everyone has their own moral standards. Yet, these Israeli Facebook users have been felt to be pushing the boundaries of propriety no matter where you stand on the Palestine issue. Translated by this blogger, an Israeli citizen apparently posted a story about the 10 Palestinian children being killed. The response of his Facebook friends? "Thank God its Palestinians, let it be such bus every day." Does Facebook mean that the usual rules of common decency are null on the Internet?

And Far Away [4]

Saudi Graphic Design T-Shirts: Qabila Apparel

Quirky T-shirt humor. We all love it, especially those relating Middle Eastern popular culture. Roba from Jordan highlights Qabila Apparel, which is a T-shirt design company that takes advantage of the bountiful, but unused, reserves of Arab humor. "Expressing design and culture using t-shirts as a canvas has been a trend in the Arab world for five years or so, and a great one at that."

Beirut Spring [5]

Lebanon’s Super Night Club Industry

Looking back on previous posts of foreign orientalist reporting on Arab countries, Mustapha from Beirut shares a piece of well-done journalism on Beirut's sex industry. Besides avoiding the usual clichés on the matter, it puts a whole other shade to the darker aspects of Beirut's reputably vibrant nightlife. "I started reading it expecting a fluff piece bidding for the highly prized Google keywords “sex” and “Beirut”, but instead found a great piece of investigative journalism in which Anderson actually talks to various players in the industry and puts together a revealing account of how things work in Lebanon’s super night club industry."

Toom Extra [6]

Friendship, an eternal love story

It seems that Valentine's Day is all about romantic love. But did you know that initially it was about the sacrifice of love in general, regardless to whom it may be directed? For this Lebanese blogger, this Valentine's Day was all about friendship, a kind of love that gets overlooked too often. "These are friends worth writing about, worth loving and respecting. I am blessed to have such great people in my life. I dedicate this Valentine's post to them, because from time to time it's nice to say I LOVE YOU dear friend."