What will the future of the Middle East look like?
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Censorship at the source
Welcome to the internet future in the Middle East and North Africa: In addition to blocking blogs and arresting bloggers, a new form of censorship has started to emerge in the Middle East and North Africa: blog-hosting services removing blogs from their servers. Arab bloggers complain that the major blog-hosting services, Maktoob Blog and Jeeran…
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Spicing up your visit
Robert Fisk and The Independent are being sued for libel over an article that alleged a hotel in Beirut, the Mayflower -… where I stayed in 2005, oddly enough – was where readers could find Lebanese militias. For the record, the Mayflower was a comfortable place with a bustling bar. Militias? They must have been…