Magdee has an interesting post about the emergency laws in Egypt. He says that even with the application of emergency laws, “[t]he influence of Islamists/Wahabbis is getting stronger.”

Al-Hayat: Jews in Hassa?

Jason Kottke says “it seems that there are several efforts underway to cut the fundamental unit [of the web] down to the phrase or word.” Probably.

When I started to pay attention to the Arabic Wikipedia few months ago, I noticed that the page on my city was composed only of two lines, and had some incorrect information. I have done some research, and written a detailed article about Hassa. However, some biased users, who apparently have some problems with Shiites, did not like it. They removed some parts and replaced them with big fat lies. I’ve been correcting this stupid behavior for some time, but when I tried to edit the page this morning, the system told me I was banned from editing this page by one of the administrators because I used some “dirty words” (!!) It is a shame when a racist person becomes to be an administrator in such a noble project like Wikipedia.

Bahrain This Month interviews Mahmood. It is good to see bloggers get more attention around here. Fame!

Al-Riyadh is the first Arabic newspaper to have RSS. Nice.

Saddam is reading Don’t Be Sad by Sheikh Ayedh al-Garni, one of the most popular books in Saudi Arabia.