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CITC has blocked islamlight.net, the website which hosted the infamous fatwa by Shaikh Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak. Although the fatwa can be considered hate speech and a call to violence, I’m generally against such censorship. CITC should stop this practice of making decisions on our behalf on what we should, or rather should not, read on the web.
Corinne Martin is an artist who lives in Saudi Arabia and makes these awesome paintings based on vintage pop culture icons.
Music concerts are rare in this country. Music concerts in universities are super rare. But hey, what do you know? Jeddah Legends, the band of which Qusay is the lead singer, have recently performed a concert in KAUST. Why oh why KSU never hosted any concerts?

This entry was written by Ahmed, posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 21:15, filed under Arts, Asides, Education, Libs and Cons, Saudi Arabia and tagged corrine martin, jeddah legends, kaust, music, pop culture, Qusay. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

By Corinne Martin. » Corinne Martin Art on Saudi Jeans Blog on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 20:31

[...] Corinne Martin Art on Saudi Jeans Blog 2. March 2010, 23:28 UhrArab World, Art, My Work, Paintings, Riyadh, Saudiadmin0 comments My husband and I have been reading this blog for years. Saudi Jeans is blog written by Ahmed Al-Omran. The blog aims to provide news, commentary, and personal views on political and social issues in Saudi Arabia, with a special focus on freedom of expression, human rights and women’s rights. Here it is on his Today’s Links. [...]