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For those who do not know yet, Fastlink was found guilty by a Jordanian court for spying on its main competitor, MobileCom. The ruling came three years after MobileCom filed an industrial espionage suit against Fastlink following suspicions of the latter having access to some secretive inside information of MobileCom. If

Israel is ready to loan Jordan 4 million cubic-meters of water this summer. Water loan!! This is new, are there any interests on this? If you loan me a cup of water shall I return it with 10% extra? Do countries actually do that? I was reading the newspaper this morning

All rights reserved © Arabic Network for Human Rights Information After being detained since May 7, 2006, for non legal charge, at last Alaa has been released today June 20, 2006. He'll be back home at tomorrow or after. Congradulations to Alaa and his wife Manal. The news is spreading

The occupation spares nothing: land, trees, homes, children and donkeys. See the first news item below, then ask: What if it were Palestinians harassing Israeli children on their way to school? Then it would be a leading CNN story and the Bush would rush to the White

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices… Arabic language and the Internet… Marwan, from Subzero Blue blog, writes in his Arabic blog about the new Google News service in Arabic. He seems have found something we all have missed for

Netscape, the brand that kick-started the dot-com boom only to lose the browser war to Microsoft, launched its latest reincarnation today with a portal focused on community-driven news. It’s not exactly a Digg clone. Submitted stories are voted on in much the same way, and the more votes a story

This is a very short story I wrote yesterday for our medical humanities class. It's a reflection of how phsycians feel when they become patients themselves and clearly shows that doctors can be the worst patients. This describes parts of my hernia (ftaa2) surgery in Jordan six years

Few days ago, AFP interviewed me by email. Today, I was happy to find that the interview was published in few places. First, here is Aljazeera version: Weblogs soar in Gulf states Internet blogs are giving rise to a new breed of Arab activist as ordinary residents increasingly use them to press for

Tags: Arts & Culture, Food, global voices, GV, human rights, IOF, Israel, media, Music, news, Palestine, politics, Sport Tragedy and shock has captured the minds and hearts of Palestinian bloggers this week. The Israeli shelling of Gaza which lead to the death of several civilians including women and children, has some

The outstanding British astrophysicist Steven Hawking said that Humans must establish a base on the moon and colonize Mars within the next 40 years if we're to avoid extinction from global warming or another catastrophe, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said yesterday."It is important for the human race to spread out into