Salafists plan to destroy the Pyramids and the Sphinx

At some point in time, someone worshipped the Sphinx and Pyramids. Salafi logic suggests that to prevent this from happening again, the best plan is to remove them; being a chaperone for mother in Saudi; and decades of missing Libyans.

Egyptian Chronicles [3]

Visit the Pyramids while you can !!

Last night Wael Al Abrashi hosted a radical Salafist called Morgan El Gohary from Jihadist Salafist leaderships in Egypt on Dream TV2 . Now this man is saying that the Jihadist Salafists in Egypt will destroy the Sphinx and the Pyramids as well all other ancient statues in Egypt because they should be destroyed.

Saudi Jeans [4]

I’M NOT MY MOM’S GUARDIAN

Last year, I drove with my family to Qatar to see the Museum of Islamic Arts that was recently opened in Doha. On the Saudi border, the conversation went something like this:

From the Rock [5]

Decades of Missing Libyans and History

Now that Gaddafi is gone we are free at last to probe for all our missing and to ask questions about numerous panes of Libyan modern history shrouded in mystery because of decades of gagging by the dictator.

The Next Web [6]

The Arab world is a blooming market for venture capitalists

100 million Internet users, 286 million phone users, and a three trillion dollar economy. These are the three numbers that anyone should remember when looking at the Internet and technology opportunities in today’s Arab world.

Blog Baladi [7]

Beirut 2012 Marathon in pictures

Over 33,000 runners defied the bad weather to take part in the 9th edition of 2012 Beirut Marathon. Ethiopian runner Kadir Pecaro won the 42.195 Km race while “Hussein Awada was the first Lebanese to finish the same race with a time of 2 hours and 28 minutes”