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Waning Ruler Speeches nab real Oscar spotlight, Israel's ungracious response to its Oscar star, settlers rough-handled by police criticize Israeli force, and a peek into the hide-out of Gaddhafi.

People of the Middle East love watching the Academy Awards as much as anybody. So, the Arab blogosphere has been tingling with excitement. From fashion to Academy Award bigotry, here is some of what the Middle East blogging community had to say.

A campaign to out awful drivers on the Lebanon streets, while some take to peddling those fraught streets for Danish inspired Bike Day in Beirut; an imagined occupation on a different landscape- from Jerusalem to London, Nakba Day protests were fixed by Israel? The relevance now of Sectarian strife in Syria; and while one Arab former leader is being protected from assassination, a diabetic man is not safe from amputation.