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March 31, 2008

Al Qathafi, the Arab summit COMEDIAN but…

Filed under: Politics — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 10:51 am

The Arab summit was scheduled to start on Saturday the 29th of March but I didn’t know it until I saw that it has started already on the TV. It was not a normal Saturday as I woke up very late and decided not to go to my office, so I took the remote control of the satellite and started surf the channels.

I was not interested at all to watch the playback of every year’s speech of each Arabic leader during the opening session of the summit, but I knew when I saw the Libyan president, Al-Qathafi, that there might be something interesting from his side as usual. I kept checking the news channels to see Al-Qathafi’s turn to speak and finally it happened.

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March 17, 2008

Akhtaboot in his first LIVE appearance

Filed under: Arts, Technology — Tags: , , , , — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 7:59 pm

“Ya3teek el 3afyeh…”
“Ahlain…”
“Bs bedi as2alak, momken te7kilna kif 7asalt 3ala waziftak?”

That is the first part of the radio promotion that most of you heard on Play 99.6 FM or Rotana 99.9 FM. Today the Akhtaboot team is proud to introduce Akhtaboot himself in his first live appearance to the public in this animated video:

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March 16, 2008

Let’s set our priorities; “GOD” or “Prophet Mohammad”

Filed under: Religious — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 12:56 pm

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Every Muslim on this globe got mad because of the insulting pictures of Prophet Mohammad; I think that is normal up to an extent because the people who have drawn these pictures were very mean and very insulting not for Prophet Mohammad only; but for the Prophets in general and for the Muslims all over the world. It is obvious for us that the Danish people were trying to provoke us and they succeeded, so they gave it another trial and apparently they are succeeding.

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March 6, 2008

Peanut Butter Diplomacy?

Filed under: Life — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 1:32 am

An interview for Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America show – ABC Channel.

Let the video talk about itself:

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A closer look on the NEW PRICES!

Filed under: Life — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 12:50 am

By the beginning of this year everyone started to talk about the expectations for the new prices that we are going to face. Our main concern was the petroleum products and we never thought that it is much more than what we expected.

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March 4, 2008

Are we getting rid of IE 6?!

Filed under: Technology — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 12:08 am

With consideration to my role in a company that is one of the few that care about the cross browsers compatibility (akhtaboot.com). I wish that we are getting rid of Internet Explorer (IE) 6 (the browser that acts very stupidly) very soon.

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