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		<title>One comment..</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nightS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[..about this Octavia Nasr&#8217;s whole issue: She shouldn&#8217;t have &#8220;apologized&#8221; or &#8220;explained&#8221; herself! I&#8217;m 100% against what happened to her(she&#8217;s fired because of a personal tweet!), but the fact that she &#8220;explained&#8221; and &#8220;regretted&#8221; what happened is simply ridiculous!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">..about this <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/07/07/mena-cnn-journalists-comment-sparks-controversy/">Octavia Nasr&#8217;s whole issue</a>:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>She shouldn&#8217;t have &#8220;apologized&#8221; or &#8220;explained&#8221; herself!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I&#8217;m 100% against what happened to her(she&#8217;s fired because of a personal tweet!),</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">but the fact that she &#8220;<a href="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/06/nasr-explains-controversial-tweet-on-lebanese-cleric/">explained</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="http://twitter.com/octavianasrCNN/status/17903550057">regretted</a>&#8221; what happened is simply <strong>ridiculous</strong>!</p>
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		<title>This Blog is Against Cyber Censorship</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nightS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today (March 12), &#8220;Reporters Without Borders&#8221; are celebrating the World Day Against Cyber Censorship. Maybe we cannot relate with the subject in Lebanon since this virtual side of this messed up country is still free (so far) but it doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;re off the hook. If they&#8217;re not doing anything about what&#8217;s being said in [...]]]></description>
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<p>Today (March 12), &#8220;<a title="Reporters Sans Frontieres" href="http://www.rsf.org/">Reporters Without Borders</a>&#8221; are celebrating the <a title="Announcement by Reporters Without Borders" href="http://www.rsf.org/World-Day-Against-Cyber-Censorship.html">World Day Against Cyber Censorship</a>.</p>
<p>Maybe we cannot relate with the subject in Lebanon since this virtual side of this messed up country is still free (so far) but it doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;re off the hook. If they&#8217;re not doing anything about what&#8217;s being said in our blogesphere, it doesn&#8217;t mean they don&#8217;t want to, they just don&#8217;t know how&#8230;yet!</p>
<p>I mean we&#8217;ve seen some of their &#8220;intentions&#8221; when they tried to <a title="My post on the subject" href="http://layalk.net/2010/01/13/%d8%a3%d9%83%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%81%d8%aa-%d8%a5%d9%86%d9%91%d9%88-10/">shut down the TV show &#8220;LOL&#8221;</a> because of  some &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; jokes!</p>
<p>To see what we might be facing in the future, nothing is more clear and frightening than the list of the bloggers at <a title="Threatned Voices - A Global Voices Online Project" href="http://threatened.globalvoicesonline.org/">Threatned Voices</a> who have been threatened, arrested or killed because of their words online!</p>
<p><strong>What anti-censorship means to me?</strong> Freedom! Our most basic right as human beings! We need to be free to express our feelings, thoughts and opinions with no fear of anyone! Censorship by other parties usually ends up with self-censorship, you&#8217;ll end up imprisoning yourself if they don&#8217;t do it themselves! Which is more dangerous to me..</p>
<p><strong>How companies and governments should act in regard to this censorship?</strong> Not by only allowing others to talk freely online, but by making sure they have the means to do so. In Lebanon, they can start by offering a decent internet and telecommunications infrastructure..</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> <span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><em>You can also read more about the &#8220;</em><a href="http://www.rsf.org/ennemis.html"><em>Web2.0 vs. Control 2.0</em></a><em>&#8221; at RSF</em></span></p>
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		<title>@Global Voices Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nightS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I looked horrible and/or funny http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/04/featured-author-layal-al-khatib/]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">I looked horrible and/or funny <img src='http://layalk.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="Featured Author: Layal Al Khatib: Global Voices author and translator Layal Al Khatib" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/04/featured-author-layal-al-khatib/">http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/04/featured-author-layal-al-khatib/</a></p>
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		<title>One Year after the war on #Gaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nightS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trending Gaza on twitter was successful yesterday to spread awareness about the brutal Zionists&#8217; assault and siege. Spread the word. The whole world must know the truth! Follow and Contribute to the Twitter hashtag #GAZA]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="Nadine's instructions to trend #Gaza on Twitter" href="http://www.nadinemoawad.com/2009/12/trend-gaza-instructions/">Trending Gaza on twitter</a> was <a title="Nadine's post on &quot;How We Trended #Gaza on Twitter&quot;" href="http://www.nadinemoawad.com/2009/12/trend-gaza-instructions/">successful </a>yesterday to <a title="Nadine's post about the idea of supporting Gaza" href="http://www.nadinemoawad.com/2009/12/gaza-on-december-27/">spread awareness</a> about the brutal Zionists&#8217; assault and siege.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Spread the word. The whole world must know the truth!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Follow and Contribute to the Twitter hashtag <a title="Twitter Search: #GAZA" href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23gaza">#GAZA</a></p>
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		<title>كلنا ليلى &#8211; في لبنان #KolenaLaila</title>
		<link>http://layalk.net/2009/12/22/%d9%83%d9%84%d9%86%d8%a7-%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%84%d9%89-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d9%84%d8%a8%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%86/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=%25d9%2583%25d9%2584%25d9%2586%25d8%25a7-%25d9%2584%25d9%258a%25d9%2584%25d9%2589-%25d9%2581%25d9%258a-%25d9%2584%25d8%25a8%25d9%2586%25d8%25a7%25d9%2586</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nightS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[الدعوة مفتوحة انطلقتْ فكرة “كلنا ليلى” عام 2006 بمبادرة مدوِّنة مصرية باسم “لستُ أدري” بالإضافة الى العديد من المدوّنين في العالم العربي. و تتلخص فكرتها في دعوة المدونين العرب إلى التعبير عن آرائهم ومشاهداتهم فيما يتعلق بوضع المرأة العربية بكل حرية وصراحة، خاصة في ظل التأثير المتصاعد للإعلام الجديد على مجتمعاتنا متمثلاً في المدونات. وقد [...]]]></description>
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<h2>الدعوة مفتوحة</h2>
<p>انطلقتْ فكرة “كلنا ليلى” عام 2006 بمبادرة مدوِّنة مصرية باسم “لستُ أدري” بالإضافة الى العديد من المدوّنين في العالم العربي. و تتلخص فكرتها في دعوة المدونين العرب إلى التعبير عن آرائهم ومشاهداتهم فيما يتعلق بوضع المرأة العربية بكل حرية وصراحة، خاصة في ظل التأثير المتصاعد للإعلام الجديد على مجتمعاتنا متمثلاً في المدونات. وقد رأينا ذلك الأثر في الأعوام الماضية حيث اهتمت صحف ووسائل إعلامية عدة بالمبادرة منها الجزيرة والبي بي سي وصحيفة المصري اليوم والدستور وغيرهم . هدفنا من هذه الحملة المساهمة في إثراء الحوار حول حياتنا الإجتماعية العربية وما يتخللها من نجاحات أو إخفاقات. ونؤكد أن الفكرة ليست للترويج لثقافة أو قيم بعينها، ولكنها دعوة لنقد ومراجعة سلوكياتنا اليومية برغبة حقيقية في التغيير. ندعوكم للمشاركة معنا سواء كنتم ممن يعتقدون أن مجتمعاتنا محافظة إلى حدٍّ كبير، وتُعطي الأفضلية للرجل وتقلل من شأن المرأة وحريتها، أو كنتم ممن يؤمنون أن مجتمعاتنا منفتحة وأنها أعطت المرأة نصيبها من الحقوق بما يكفي.</p>
<p>فى عامنا هذا تهتم “كلنا ليلى” بالكشف عن قصص التحدي والتغيير والمحاولة عاشتها ليلى. نهتم أن نعرف رحلة نجاح المرأة في بلادنا، مازاد عليها وما غاب وما نطمح أن تكون عليه أحلامها ومساحتها من الواقع.. ومحاولتها لمستقبل أفضل.<br/><br />
المشاركة متاحة ومفتوحة للجميع نساءً ورجالاً، وللجميع مطلق الحرية في إبداء الرأي بأي من وسائل التعبير المتاحة: مقال، فكرة، صورة، تصميم، قصة ، أو أي شكل آخر. ويمكنكم كذلك أن تختاروا بين النشر في مدونتكم الخاصة أو النشر في المدونة الرئيسية للحملة. ليست هناك أية قيود سواء على الموضوعات أو الأفكار المطروحة، أو اللغة المستخدمة (رغم تفضيلنا للغة العربية لتكون اللغة الرسمية للمبادرة)، كما يمكن للمشاركة أن تكون مكتوبة أو مسموعة أو مرئية. كل ذلك مرحبٌ به ما دام أصحابه مؤمنين به ومسؤولين بشكل شخصي عن الدفاع عن آرائهم أمام وجهات النظر المضادة ومستعدين كذلك لتغييرها إن اقتنعوا بأوجه القصور فيه.</p>
<h3><strong>متى وكيف ؟</strong></h3>
<p>وفي عامها الرابع ستنطلق المبادرة يوم 24 كانون الأول(ديسمبر) وتستمر أسبوعاً فتنتهي يوم 31 كانون الأول(ديسمبر)، كما أنها وعلى عكس الأعوام الماضية ستشمل دولاً عربية مختلفة – عدا عن مصر – كلبنان وفلسطين وسوريا والأردن والمغرب وغيرها. فى حالة موافقتكم على الإشتراك الرجاء الرد برساله أو اذا اردتم الاستفسار عن المزيد، أرجو أن لا تترددوا فى ارسال إقتراحاتكم أو أسئلتكم على البريد الإلكتروني <a href="mailto:layal@kolenalaila.com">layal@kolenalaila.com</a></p>
<p>نرجو منكم أيضا إذا أعجبتكم الفكرة أن تدعوا أصدقاءكم من المدونين والمدونات إلى المشاركة، فقط أعيدوا إرسال الدعوة إليهم وضعوا <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/kolenalaila.com');" href="http://kolenalaila.com/banners" title="شعارات">البانر </a>المرافق للدعوة فى مدونتكم<br/><br />
يمكنكم ايضا زيارة موقعنا: <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/kolenalaila.com');" href="http://kolenalaila.com/" rel="nofollow" title="http://kolenalaila.com">http://kolenalaila.com</a></p>
<p>وشكراً لإهتمامكم،﻿</p>
<p><strong><em>أعرف أن المبادرة ستنطلق ليلة الميلاد وهو وقت خاص ومميز جداً للبعض..فإن أردتم تجهيز مشاركتكم وإرسالها لي سأكون أكثر من سعيدة وجاهزة لنشرها في الوقت المحدد.</em></strong></p>
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		<title>Lebanese Racism?? Tell me something I don&#8217;t know!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nightS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/170128 If you think this is the first time racist criminal acts were committed by some Lebanese(civilians) against the Syrian People (also civilians too) You&#8217;re wrong okay??]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;">If you think this is the first time racist criminal acts were committed by some Lebanese(civilians) against the Syrian People (<ins>also</ins> civilians <del>too</del>)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You&#8217;re wrong okay??</p>
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		<title>2nd Arab Bloggers Meeting #ab09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nightS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll make it short.. Thank You! I met Great Bloggers I learned alot! And I had so much fun It was great meeting everyone there.. Looking forward to seeing you all again next year (or sooner ) Salamat! To know what Arab Bloggers from 19 countries did in 5 days in Beirut.. Check the meeting&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">I&#8217;ll make it short..</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thank You!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I met Great Bloggers</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I learned alot!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And I had so much fun</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <img src='http://layalk.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">It was great meeting everyone there..</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Looking forward to seeing you all again next year (or sooner <img src='http://layalk.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  )</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Salamat!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>To know what Arab Bloggers from 19 countries did in 5 days in Beirut</em>..</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Check the meeting&#8217;s <a title="Second Arab Bloggers Meeting" href="http://arabloggers.com/blog">blog </a>or tune to the <a title="#ab09 on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23ab09">#ab09</a> twitter hashtag</em></p>
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		<title>Yeah..about that Egypt/Algeria match</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nightS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a football fan and I won&#8217;t be but I have to say these few points regarding this whole &#8220;crisis&#8221;: GAZA To those who mentioned &#8220;Gaza&#8221; in their arguments. Yes Gaza deserves more attention, Yes this shouldn&#8217;t happen. Yes if 1% of the effort and energy spent into the rage and hate was directed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not a football fan and I won&#8217;t be but I have to say these few points regarding this whole &#8220;crisis&#8221;:</p>
<h2>GAZA</h2>
<p>To those who mentioned &#8220;Gaza&#8221; in their arguments. Yes Gaza deserves more attention, Yes this shouldn&#8217;t happen. Yes if 1% of the effort and energy spent into the rage and hate was directed to Gaza when it was under attack it would have been much better. But dear &#8220;patriotic&#8221; person, you have to know that Egypt and Algeria are both ruled by tyrants. So if they decided to stand up for a decent cause. I think they should start with theirs.</p>
<p>(<em>Again not saying that protesting at an embassy over a football game or whatever that happened because of it is right. And Yes I wished that all of these crowds did the same for Gaza.)</em></p>
<h2>BROTHERS</h2>
<p>It&#8217;s not new to see racist comments from both sides. Come on people, since when we Arabs weren&#8217;t racists? or sexists? or sectarian?  We&#8217;re killing each other..why are you surprised we&#8217;re fighting with people from a different country!!</p>
<p>I mean in Lebanon, people are fighting over the assholes they follow. You shouldn&#8217;t be surprised..it&#8217;s in our blood and genes!</p>
<h2>PRESS</h2>
<p>I hope you all burn in hell!! Especially who used VERY low ways to make this worse. Shame on you!!</p>
<p>I have a final thought or a question actually.. Why is it that the Egyptian people were the only Egypt supporters in the match? At least here in Lebanon, I&#8217;m not aware of a romantic relation with Algeria or a hate one with Egypt either&#8230;Is there something I&#8217;m missing here?? Or maybe just a coincidence?</p>
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		<title>Kolena Laila: Call for Volunteers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nightS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laila is calling for your help this year. Click the banner to read the announcement: Please Spread!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Laila is calling for your help this year. Click the banner to read the announcement:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kolenalaila.com/en/blog/archives/293"><img class="size-medium wp-image-409 aligncenter" title="en---Kolenalaila---br" src="http://layalk.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/en-Kolenalaila-br-207x300.png" alt="en---Kolenalaila---br" width="207" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>Please Spread! <img src='http://layalk.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>RTL This</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nightS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has always bothered me the very limited collection of RTL(right-to-left) blog templates/themes..whether it&#8217;s for Blogger, WordPress or Drupal or any other Blogging platform or CMS. Web Designers and Developers might not find a problem since they can flip it themselves in couple of hours depending on the design itself. The other part of Arab [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It has always bothered me the very limited collection of RTL(right-to-left) blog templates/themes..whether it&#8217;s for Blogger, WordPress or Drupal or any other Blogging platform or CMS. Web Designers and Developers might not find a problem since they can flip it themselves in couple of hours depending on the design itself.</p>
<p>The other part of Arab Bloggers (the majority) do not have the enough skills to do such tasks. So we end up with:</p>
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<li> A very limited number of RTL themes that we see everywhere (especially Blogger)</li>
<li> And the many many LTR (left-to-right) themes that simply don&#8217;t look nice with the Arabic content (although usually they&#8217;re very beautifull themes)</li>
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<p>The ideal solution I want? Is to convince all of the web designers and developers of the world to include an RTL version of their themes! <img src='http://layalk.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  We have to wait for that a really long time..</p>
<p>So what can we do? communicate! We can share our ideas and skills to help enriching this poor space of the web. There are really beautifull themes out there and they will look even more beautifull if they fit well with our Arabic content.</p>
<p>I will start hopefully before the end of this year to share my own tips and tricks on how to deal with the RTL side of the web. I&#8217;m not a guru, and I&#8217;m not a pro, but I want to share what I know and learn what you know. I have thought of naming this learning experience &#8220;RTL This&#8221;. What do you think? I&#8217;d love to know your opinion..</p>
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