Jihad al-Khazin, one of my favourite columnists in…

Jihad al-Khazin, one of my favourite columnists in the Arab World, has written a column about blogs and bloggers. The column seems to be the first part of a series. He writes about the history of blogging, and about some of the seminal bloggers such as Matt Drudge. However, he makes the usual mistake that Arab media made several times before saying there is no Arabic translation for the word “blog.” I won’t go in that again because I talked about it before. I’m still waiting to read the rest of the series, and I’ll tell you what I think about it later.

The new season of Tash Ma Tash, Saudi Arabia’s mos…

The new season of Tash Ma Tash, Saudi Arabia’s most popular TV series, will be shot this year in Dubai for the first time. Abdullah Al-Gubaie thinks the decision of moving the show to Dubai Media City will give the makers of the show more freedom to express their ideas. I think this was a good move. Now, the show, well-known for criticizing some government bodies that no one dared to talk about, will have even more space to criticize.