Month: July 2006
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Faces Against War: pick up your camera now
Pick up you camera and join this global protest against the wars of the Middle East. See/Join the Flickr group now. If you don’t want to use Flickr, just post you picture on your site or blog. Read more about it here. (in memory of the mothers and children of Qana | 1996, 2006)
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Jordan’s alarming lack of ‘quality work’!
I have come to a conclusion, which I have voiced repeatedly to friends over the past few months. In Jordan, we can’t even get ‘wijeh el sa77ara’ right anymore! (‘Wijeh el sa77ar’ mean the ‘face of the fruit basket’ in Arabic, which refers to the the practice of putting a layer of nice looking fruit…
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Toot for Gaza and Beirut
I did not post about this earlier, and many readers have probably heard about toot’s newest multi-author blog: Toot for Gaza and Beirut. The blog is becoming quite busy, with a number of people signing on to become authors and a good number of comments. There are feeds from various Arab and International news sources…
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Do Israelis watch Aljazeera? If not, they should!
Tonight there was yet another real-life horror filled news bulletin on Aljazeera. Twenty three Palestinian were killed in Gaza in 15 hours Wednesday. Israel claims it was hitting militants. Indeed I saw a hurt Palestinian fighter among the casualties shown. But again.. Palestinian children. Dead, or bleeding. Or laying on the ground in a state…
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Branding Israel: Building walls, destroying bridges..
Add to that: killing the innocent, maiming the children. Or maybe Israel’s brand tagline should be: “Experts in Collective Punishment”. This post is a message across the border, to Israelis: Congratulations. You have just succeeded at making yet another generation of Arabs hate you. Horrible images are circulating among Arab web users these days, as…
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A bunch of typography links
I received this bunch of links from my colleague Hussein the other day. So I am simply pasting them as is.. http://www.dstype.com/dst5.htm http://www.alessio.de/ http://www.andreubalius.com/ http://www.paratype.com/ http://www.emigre.com/ http://www.eurotypo.com/ http://www.fontlab.com/index.php http://www.fontlab.com/index.php http://www.stbride.org/ http://www.lionbee.de/ http://www.t26.com/fonts.php http://www.typocircle.co.uk/ http://www.tdc.org/ http://www.typebase.com/ http://www.andreubalius.com/typerepublic/centralB.html http://www.typographer.org/ http://www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/lt/
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Are your home videos ready for the prime time?
MEDIA | With Al Arabiya news channel asking its viewers to submit their own video clips, the age of user generated video has dawned in Arabia too, Ahmad Humeid reports. When the London Underground was bombed a year ago, the first images and video coming out of the tunnels originated from the videophones of people…
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Dragging children to war: sick! sick! sick!
Ok.. Let’s talk about images of children and war, shall we? No I am not talking about pictures of dead children (we have grown numb to them in this sick part of the world). I am talking about the living variety, dressed up and prodded by the sick adults who are their parent to glorify…
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Enjoying 5 days of offline life, then upgrading to WordPress 2
I came back from a 4 day work (with some city tourism thrown in) trip to the Czech Republic yesterday night, during which I was completely offline. OK I still had my mobile and I had to watch the rather biased/sometimes disgusting CNN coverage of the war on Lebanon. But.. no email, no browsing, no…
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Germany: champion of the world-cup of hearts!
“What’s a cup worth when you’ve won 80 million hearts?” (photo source Focus.de) That’s how Germany is celebrating it’s win of the 3rd place of the world cup. The wave of public euphoria just went on tonight. On German TV, a studio guest said “the 3rd place is being celebrated as if the first place…
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This world-cup was much more than football for Germany
Germany is out! Originally uploaded by fugo. Germany goes to bed very sad tonight. Today’s defeat in front of Italy put an end to the hopes that have been swelling up all over Germany for the past 3 weeks. But what many people may not understand is that this world-cup meant much more to Germany…
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The 99: Islamic culture based comic..
I was going through my email and found this press release from Teshkeel comics, whose founder, Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa created a comic book project entitled The 99, based on Islamic culture. I checked out the preview. The story starts in Baghdad during the golden age of Islamic civilization, then takes a mythical turn that takes…