As we are exposed to the raw feeds of information in our interconnected world, we are increasingly forced to a much greater degree of ed...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The local partner of the New York Times, which reprints the newspaper for a small and discerning audie...

(Photo credit: IsaacMao ) Saturday the 8th March will see me once again pretending to be an author at the LitFest. As well as my usual ...

Omani weekly tabloid newspaper The Week appears to be in a great deal of hot water indeed. The paper ran a piece last week on what it w...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Gulf News' Bassma Al Jandaly reports today on the case of an Indian university lecturer who has...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Gulf News today carries a roundup of recent cases of bloggers and tweeters in trouble around the ...

Now! Buy the book Jordan's bookstores didn't want you to see! Thanks to the embargo busting online superheroes at Jordanian...

Téléphone ancien (Photo credit: zigazou76 ) The Twelfth ITU World Conference on International Telecommunications is currently taking pl...

The Man Who Fell to Earth (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) This isn't really a book post, it just starts like one, so bear wit...

The TRA (Telecommunications Regulatory Authority) has directed the UAE's telcos, Etisalat and Du, to block access to the film traile...

Many years ago, in 2005, I was proud to be one of the sponsors an artshow called 'Into the light', which protested the Amman bom...

Khanjar, Saidi-type, circa 1924, from Oman. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Oman's National Human Rights Commission has come out a...

Image via Wikipedia It always reminds me of the Black Adder sketch in which George is requesting 'Permission to ...

Image via Wikipedia Gulf News ran an Associated Press story on the front page of its business section today on the report issued by Transpa...

And you thought that every restaurateur in the Middle East learned a clear lesson from the awful public relations disaster that was triggere...

Image via Wikipedia American President Lyndon Johnson once memorably said of J. Edgar Hoover, "I'd rather have him inside the tent ...

Image by George via Flickr  To be perfectly honest, I'd rather have nothing to say about this at all, but I don't see how I can let...

It would appear that the UAE's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Or TRA to you an' me) has blocked YouTube's age verific...

Image via Wikipedia People occasionally like to talk to me about censorship and seem mildly put out when I tell them that I've never com...

Image via Wikipedia This is a depressing column from Abdullah Rasheed, Gulf News' Abu Dhabi editor, today, written on the occasion of t...