Morsi hailed as New Saladin: Islamists salute 'victory over the Persians'

The weekend's Morsi speech at the NAM summit in Tehran is still causing Twitter-echoes - a celebration of the Islamist leader's Persian slam; What it is to sleep easy; It's a small world after all; Driving ban, the school run in Saudi and the mothers who can't drive.

Egyptian Chronicles [2]

Regarding Morsi and the conquest of Tehran 2012 !!

The speech of Mohamed Morsi in the NAM summit meeting in Tehran yesterday is still echoing and causing controversy among Egyptians and the Arabs. Most people in Egypt find it reasonable balanced as well announcement that Egypt is back in leading the region once again. “Despite it is still speech, there are no real actions yet to make Egypt return back to its position ” Nevertheless the brothers in the Gulf as well the brothers in the Muslim brotherhood and Salafist movement in Egypt and Arab worldwide have turned the 42 minutes speech in to the greatest victory over the Persian Empire since 1400 years and beyond !!

Hning's Asia [3]

The Good Sleeper

It was time to go. Abdullah son of Amr had spent all the hospitality due to him with that curiosity gnawing at him worse than it had three days before. Three days in vigil. Three days of paying the snottiest attention that politeness allowed him to stretch. All for what? To be impressed by his own obtuseness?

Saudiwoman's Weblog [4]

Right to Dignity’s statement on lifting the ban on women driving

My Right to Dignity campaign has issued its strongest statement so far. With school starting this week, households across the country are incapacitated by the ban on women driving and resentment has again boiled to the surface. This is evident in the more assertive tone of the statement. In the past few weeks the campaign has received several messages and videos of support from both Saudi men and women and enquiries about the next step planned. Nothing is definite just yet but I predict an exciting year ahead.

And Far Away [5]

How Small We Really Are: The Size of the Earth

I think you can tell that I’ve been spacetripping during the past few months. I blame it on my reading list. For now though, here’s a truly humbling perspective at how tiny we are. I find it hard to believe that we are the only intelligence in the universe, or even in our galaxy. What do you think?