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| ‘My dad put me on a bike when I was four and just said: Go!’ |
by Benjamin Joffe-Walt on
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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Iran’s first female dirt bike champion talks about her childhood, marriage and love of riding. Women exposing any body part beyond the hands and face can be sentenced to up to 70 lashes and two months in prison. Most women are barred from inheritance and the right to initiate a divorce, while men can hold multiple wives. Public buildings often have separate entrances for women and men. Iran is not the kind.....
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| Energy and Water Crisis Takes Hold over Ramadan in Egypt |
by Joseph Mayton on
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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Citizens say resources should be used locally before being exported across border to Israel. [CAIRO] The sun is disappearing into the horizon. The dinner table is set for the breaking of the Ramadan fast.It is around 6 p.m. in Cairo and this Egyptian family sits patiently waiting for the adhan, or call to prayer, to signal the sun has finally set and dinner can be served. As the anticipation rises, the lights suddenly go out. There is.....
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| Abbas vs. Ahmadinejad |
by Benjamin Joffe-Walt on
Sunday, September 05, 2010
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The Palestinian and Iranian leaders take each other on in the diplomatic boxing match of the season. The Mahmouds... For years they’ve appeared publicly to be allies.When resources were low, one rushed to the rescue of the other. When one of their rhetorical wheels would run dry, the other would pipe-in with eloquent axioms.But now, the truth about the Mahmouds has been revealed and these two former buddies have fallen out in a public barrage of invective. In.....
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| Are Saudi Dissidents Training to Topple the King? |
by Benjamin Joffe-Walt on
Thursday, September 02, 2010
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Source claims Saudi dissidents training with rebels in southern Yemen. It’s an allegation almost too surreal to be real. In a claim reminiscent of the most elaborate Middle East conspiracy theories known to date, a “reliable” source in the beleaguered Yemeni government has told the Yemeni news site Al Watan that a group of Saudi dissidents are secretly being trained by separatist Yemeni rebels in military warfare and covert communications so as to overthrow the Saudi king......
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| What Happens When the Peace Talks Fail? |
by Arieh O’Sullivan on
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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Analysts discuss the potential aftereffects of the Israeli-Palestinian direct talks. Before noon on Wednesday, hundreds of Palestinians crowded around a main square in the West Bank city of Ramallah to show their opposition to the direct Israeli Palestinian peace talks being launched this week at the White House. “We want Kalashnikovs (assault rifles),” the shouted. “We want RPGs (rocket propelled grenades). We don’t want security cooperation nor the CIA.” Mustafa Barghouti, a chief opponent to Palestinian.....
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| Geek Convention Heading to the Middle East |
by Adam Gonn on
Monday, August 30, 2010
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Region’s first-ever comic convention to take place next year in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Fans of comics, sci-fi and fantasy in the Middle East will now have their own comic convention. In March 2011 Abu Dhabi’s National Exhibition Centre will be the first in the region to host its own version of the San Diego Comic-Con International.The event in San Diego started in 1974 as a meeting point for people interested in science fiction, comic books and movies......
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| Iran to Replace Google with 'Oh Lord' |
by Benjamin Joffe-Walt on
Sunday, August 29, 2010
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Home grown web search engine set to go online by 2012. It all began in the early 1990’s with Internet search engine startups like Excite, Galaxy, Lycos and Webcrawler.Then Yahoo and Alta Vista moved in, followed only a few years later by what would become the neighborhood bully: Google. Now Iran would like to introduce the new kid on the block...Ladies and Gentelmen, please welcome ‘Oh Lord,’ a homegrown Iranian search engine sure to highlight very high.....
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| Lone Israeli Charges Moroccan Activists with Antisemitism |
by David E. Miller on
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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Moroccan Association for Human Rights denies accusation, saying they educate on the difference between Zionism and Judaism. On a hot July afternoon, Noam Nir was sitting in his office in the coastal Moroccan city of Essaouira when he heard voices shouting from the street.“I realized there was a demonstration on my doorstep, so I grabbed my camera and went outside,” Nir told The Media Line.Outside, Nir encountered a group of high-school aged youth chanting Anti-Zionist slogans. “Standing.....
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| Ramadan TV Series Rock the Boat |
by David E. Miller on
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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Portrayal of political and social taboos on holiday TV show shatter Arab sensitivities. An elderly man walks into an Egyptian pharmacy. “I would like a blue pill, a yellow pill and a maple-colored pill,” he tells the pharmacist.“Isn’t that a bit much?” asks an astonished bystander.“But I am a newly-wed, and I must party all night!” answers the elderly man with a naughty grin.This scene, part of the popular TV series “Sugar Crisis”, was banned for broadcast.....
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| Talks, talks, talks |
by Arieh O'Sullivan and Benjamin Joffe-Walt on
Sunday, August 22, 2010
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As the Obama administration announces direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders for the first time in a year and a half, analysts, civic society leaders and folks on the street discuss their reaction with The Media Line. Sameh HabeebFounder and Chief Editor, Palestine Telegraph NewspaperI have experienced failure after failure after failure, so I expect another failure. We have two problems: first, the Israelis are not interested in peace, except according to their criteria, which means.....
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