As they often do every weekend, a group of Saudi journalists gathered up at 'The Millennium' -- a local hangout which was once popular for being among the first 'Internet-Cafes' in the coastal city of Jeddah back in the late 1990's.

For this group of television, newspaper and magazine...

I couldn't help coming up with the slogan: "Twitter... Don't start a revolution without it!", as I saw the vital role social networking sites played in covering the recent protest against the latest Presidential election results in Iran.

Having said that, I knew it was only a matter of...

A parallel stream of many Michael Jackson related memories ran through my mind as I witnessed the ongoing influx of news-reports which marked the death of one of the world's biggest entertainers.

Of course, I instantly realized that this was probably the case with millions of people around the world......

Many things have changed in the publishing world since I last met The President of The World Association of Newspapers (WAN), Gavin O'Reilly.

At the time, 4 years ago, he had just been elected into his position at the 58th World Newspaper Congress in Seoul, South Korea.

Though the...

It doesn't seem that the reactions to President Obama's recent speech in Cairo are going to end anytime soon.

In his column today, veteran Washington Post writer, Jim Hoagland, described Obama as "a president who knows how to put on a brave face in public."

"Obama told...

A few days ago, I was called into CNN International's studios in London to record some comments on President Obama's visit to Saudi Arabia and discuss expectations regarding the -- then much anticipated -- Cairo speech.

What I said bluntly at the time was that despite the positive attitudes...

It was both ironic and interesting to see how a video game titled 'Faith Fighter', where players control characters that are meant to represent: Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, God and the Hindu god Ganesh and fight in a one-on-one competition, managed to bring followers of different religions and beliefs together...

She could be easily dubbed the Saudi Arabian version of 'Oprah', though the TV program she co-hosts, an all-women talk show called 'Kalam Nawa'im' on pan-Arab channel MBC, much more resembles ABC's The View.

However, it is her actions not words...

It seemed like almost everybody were humming the tunes of "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" in London in the last few days, as the recently announced Michael Jackson concerts became the "hottest selling on the planet", according to organizers, with 750,000 fans snapping up...

Dear Mr. President,

Allow me first to congratulate you, the American people and all believers in liberty, equality and human rights all over the world on this remarkable occasion.

I can't seem to be able to restrain myself from saying how much I envy the American people on...

The title of this post was a thought that constantly crossed my mind as I found myself relying more and more on updates I would get from the popular social networking site when the atrocities began unfolding in Gaza as of the 27th of December.

I have been away...

It was fascinating to watch how Iraqi reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi managed to achieve 'superstar' status in the Arab world in less than 48 hours.

He owes it all of course to his now infamous action of tossing a pair of shoes at US President George Bush at a joint...