A break from the protest schedule for the entertainment agenda in Jordan

Taking a hiatus from plotting protests to plotting cultural events: Amman's arts line up week of 6th March, Saudi's issue warning to ban demonstrations or at least not report on them. Free parking?

Saif al-Islam's PhD thesis, available for viewing [1]

A healthy break from Protest Season to spend a week with Jordan's Cultural Agenda: International Women's Day, Israeli Apartheid Week, exhibition openings...

7iber [3]

Events in Amman, March 6 – 12

Spring is here and Amman’s arts and culture agenda is getting packed. Aat (the network of women artists in Jordan) and Al-Balad Theater are organizing the International Women’s Day Festival, with activities throughout March; film screenings, workshops, and dance performances.

Jadaliyya [4]

Saudi Government forbids media from reporting weekend's protests in a warning on reporting on demonstration

The Saudi Ministry of Interior Issued the Following Statement Today: Based on recent attempts to circumvent rules, regulations, and procedures for illegal purposes, and confirming what was previously announced on January 27, 2009, the security spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior clarified that Saudi laws and regulations strictly prohibit all kinds of demonstrations, marches, protests, or calling for them, as they contradict with Islamic Shari’a principles and the values and norms of Saudi society. They also breach public order, harm public and private interest, infringe upon other people’s rights, and may lead to chaos, bloodshed, robbery, and put public and private property at risk. So demonstrations are illegal!

THE EMIRATES ECONOMIST Blog [5]

Saif Gaddafi takes down another victim

The director of the London School of Economics (LSE) has stepped down the Guardian reports. Sir Howard Davies resigned after fresh revelations that the institution had been involved in a deal worth £2.2m to train hundreds of young Libyans to become part of the country's future elite. This news comes just as allegations of a dishonest doctorate submission By Saif al-Islam is plaguing the LSE, whose doctorate dissertation- shadowed by questions of authorial integrity given the subject material- is now available online.

BEIRUTSPRING.COM [6]

How Aljazeera Developed Its Social Media Presence During The Revolutions

Links us to a report from Mashable on how Aljazeera learned on the go the importance of social media. s I read it I kept thinking about our own TV stations in Lebanon. The only one that kind of understands the internet is MTV, but otherwise they all seem too attached to their old top-down, mass-media ways. This is unfortunately yet another manifestation of Lebanon’s bad internet infrastructure and culture..

Intifada Voice of Palestine [7]

BRITAIN CHERRY-PICKS WHICH WAR CRIMINALS TO PROSECUTE AND WHERE TO IMPOSE NO-FLY ZONES

No to Gaddafi, alright to Ehud Olmert or Barak or for that matter BB Netanyahu. What makes Libya so different from Gaza and what defines a war criminal?

Baladi Blog [8]

How to park for free in Lebanon

On responsible reporting for the betterment of Lebanon's parking chaos. A delayed but necessary comment on lessons learnt from Imad Atallah from the Daily star's actions after he wrote an article on how he scanned and photoshopped legal parking stubs from the park meter and replaced them with new expiration dates, without getting caught. "I strongly believe that what Imad was not only wrong but very destructive and pointless. He has indirectly shown people a new way of tricking the system without getting caught and has shown himself as a bad example for others to follow..." "What he should have done...."