For your entertainment, please read them both and then spot the bits that Al-Qabas chose not to translate!
- The Washington Post - In the Gulf, Dissidence Goes Digital
- في الـخليج لكل المهمات.. من المغازلة والنكات إلى النشاط السياسي SMS
(Hint: It's the last paragraph!!)
Very intersting article , the whole thing about SMS and how it affects our lives it is so true ... no one can deny it . And yes , they omitted some of things from the original article !!!... you've got the eye !
ReplyDeleteActually.. I was curious to see the original article in the Wash Post, so when I got to the last paragraph I thought "No way did this make it into Al-Qabas" so I immediately went back to it and I was right!
ReplyDeleteThe article is also interesting because it is written from an outsider's viewpoint and his perpective of the way things are.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to mention that I saw Rola Dashti with some reporter types at Al-Raya Center a while ago, on my way to late lunch at Burger Boutique (more about that later. Bo Jaij you have to try it, its awesome!).. Must've been the Wash Post reporters... Shoulda walked up and said hi, maybe they could've mentioned the Kuwaiti blog world in the article too.
ReplyDeleteYet another in a long line of blown opportunities!
Very powerful observation Z, I read the English version and kinda skimmed through the Arabic, but it didn?t occur to me to check; very smart.
ReplyDeleteZaydoun if you?re still at it I can get a hold of Rulla for the connection, but do you think it?s a good idea to expose blogging to the public?
Ayya... I don't know her that well actually, but if I had caught her eye I would've said hello
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ReplyDeleteتم تعيين الدكتور انس الرشيد وزيرا للاعلام باقي الموضوع
ReplyDeletehttp://www.elaph.com/Politics/2005/3/51654.htm
بو حفص مبروك على البلوغ
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13590-2004Oct31.html
ReplyDeleteZaydoun, if this was the guy you saw than it was the writer of this article.. I met him, and I think he got tired of asking people whether the protests were inspired by Beirut (and thus inspired by Iraq and thus inspired by...) and getting the standard, 'no of course not, it's not the first time we have protested and more people turned up this time because of sms and blogs'..