Bad news on Eid day: Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman, a 21-year-old law student and blogger from Egypt, was taken in detenction on Wednesday.

Happy Eid, everyone!

WSJ says Google will soon resume scanning copyrighted library books into its search engine, despite the efforts of some publishers and authors to block it from doing so without the copyright holders’ permission. Let me just say that those who oppose this project are not making a rational argument. It is clear how to violate the copyrights of publisher and authors, and I think it is clear that Google is not doing a wrong thing.

Some highlights on the outcomes of the study on tourism in Saudi Arabia that I pointed to earlier.

Trilancer is looking for a partner to work with him on a team blog. I think it’s a good call, and something really good could come out of this.

People in Britain are buying books to look smart.

Jamal Khashoggi thinks that our curricula have not going under any true reform. “All what we did was deleting some insulting sentences from religion and humanities books,” he wrote (Arabic). I totally agree with him that our education system is in desperate need a major reform.