Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid (CML) Leukemia

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid (CML) Leukemia, a rare form of cancer of the white blood cells. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, is the inventor of the Sky Hook, which pretty much every kid has attempted on the...

Star-Studded Obama Video Gains Momentum

UPDATED: The Huffington Post is now suggesting that the will.i.am-produced pro-Obama video could significantly impact the outcome of Super Tuesday. Do you agree?"This election cycle marks the first time when...

Doc Film Deals Done at Sundance

Docs films continue their dominance as a viable and engaging filmic form at this year's Sundance Film Festival, which opened yesterday. One of the biggest deals was made for "Up the Yangtze", an acclaimed film by Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang."Several small acquisitions...

Dating in a War Zone (AP)

In Baghdad, even a first date can be a long-distance relationship. In a city with no real streat life left, there would be no "hot spots". You cannot take in a movie with no cinemas, nor can you take that special...

Blogger's Appeal Fails

Despite an outcry raised round the world, the Egyptian court scheduled to hear blogger Kareem Nabel's appeal upheld his sentence today. The 4 year prison term meted out to the blogger was the result of Egypt's first complete prosecution of a blogger."The Appeal Court on...

Blogger's Appeal Tomorrow

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak probably had no idea what a firestorm would be let loose when his courts sentenced a blogger to four years in prison for defaming Islam and insulting Mubarak. "Egyptian blogger...

Blogger jailed for 4 years

"“On blogs everyone is allowed to write what they want. This proves how unintelligent the president and Al-Azahr are “Said kazia.Abdel Kareem Soliman,22, an Egyptian blogger blogging under the name Kareem Amer,has been sentenced for four years’ prison for insulting...

Join "Free Kareem Campaign"

“Free Kareem Campaign” has been launched to form pressure on the Egyptian government to release an Egyptian blogger who has been sentenced to four years in prison for the alleged crimes of “defaming the...

Egyptian blogger needs support

The Egyptian blogger Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman Amer has been arrested by the police for 'criticising Islam' and will be subject to a second interrogation "by the prosecutor and... professors from Al-Azhar University" tomorrow.  Amer was expelled in March from that...

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