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How do you say "internet" in Arabic?

Egypt has apparently started registering the first Arabic-language internet domain names at dot.msr during the 4th Internet Governance Forum (happening in its very own seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh) in a move critics of the regime's perspective on ...

From COURTNEY C. RADSCH, Arabisto.com,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

The Muslim Brotherhood's leadership challenge a "milestone"

The supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Mohamed Mahdi Akef, has decided to step down at the end of his first term in January 2009 in what blogger and activist Ibrahim al-Houdaiby calls "an important milestone for the largest opposition ...

From COURTNEY C. RADSCH, Arabisto.com,  16 Nov 2009

Al Jazeera becomes leading Mideast sports broadcaster with ART buy

According to Gulf Times, the Arabic satellite news station Al Jazeera is poised to become the largest sports broadcaster in the Arab region with its reportedly billion dollar purchase of the Arab Radio and Television (ART) network. According to the ...

From COURTNEY C. RADSCH, Arabisto.com,  13 Nov 2009

Dubai Media Not-So-Free Zone

This is the notice I get when I try to access the photo-sharing site Flikr in the UAE. Or any site ending in .ir for Israel. And on a host of other sites that Emirati authorities have decided is not acceptable. And I work in Dubai Media City, a ...

From COURTNEY C. RADSCH, Arabisto.com,  1 Nov 2009

Emirate's Airlines: the story I was forced out over

Here is the original story I posted on AlArabiya.net about Emirates Airlines that I was forced to take down. Now that I am safely out of the country I wanted people to see what the story was all about. I removed the name of the first reporter upon her ...

From COURTNEY C. RADSCH, Arabisto.com,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Airbus,  Federal Aviation Administration,  Emirates Airline

Government service: not such an oxymoron at TECOM

TECOM, the Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone authority, is the government agency of Dubai responsible for the so-called "free zones" like Media City, Internet City, Knowledge Village etc. (although funnily enough it does not have a working website!). ...

From COURTNEY C. RADSCH, Arabisto.com,  19 Oct 2009

Ramadan advertising a casualty of the financial downturn

Spending on advertising during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, TV’s holy grail of ratings, fell compared to last year according to industry experts, whose initial optimism about the season proved unwarranted. The industry was hoping for a recovery ...

From COURTNEY C. RADSCH, Arabisto.com,  3 Oct 2009

Google, Facebook move up launches in Persian to help Iranian reformists

Google launched its Persian automatic translation service Friday just hours after Facebook announced a beta-version of the social networking site, because of the ongoing protests in Iran over election results that gave incumbent president, Mahmoud ...

From COURTNEY C. RADSCH, Arabisto.com,  19 Jun 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Google Inc.,  Twitter Inc

The Revolution will be Twittered... this time in Iran

Iranian activists successfully got Twitter to suspend a planned interruption of service today because it has become an indispensable communication tool. Twitter and the other new media applications of the day -- Facebook, Flikr, YouTube and all -- have ...

From COURTNEY C. RADSCH, Arabisto.com,  16 Jun 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

Hackers crash official Iran news sites

From the article I just wrote and posted on Al Arabiya about the hacking, which followed just a day after Iran officials closed Al Arabiya's Tehran bureau for a week. "Iranians sympathetic to reformist Mir Hossein Mousavi, who lost his election bid ...

From COURTNEY C. RADSCH, Arabisto.com,  15 Jun 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

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