Censorship in Qatar

by | Nov 27, 2004 | Doha affairs

Qatari censorship I found this inside the 22 November edition of Newsweek magazine, which I’d purchased from a store in Doha. It obviously was applied by hand via magic marker.

New features

by | Nov 27, 2004 | Site features, Weblogs

A quick announcement: New features have been added to Mental Mayhem (many thanks to hubby). Those features include a search, which can be found right beneath the webpoll, a live chat that allows you to leave me notes without an email client or login. It’s found above Media Hub. And a hit map, showing the locations of visitors to the blog. The hit map is down at the bottom of the sidebar.

Stay tuned for more features in the near future.

Nour Al-Sharif to play the role of Yasser Arafat

by | Nov 27, 2004 | Film

Sharif

Prominent Egyptian actor Nour El Sharif has announced that he plans on presenting the life story of the late Palestinian President, whom he was very good friends with, in a new film. Nour revealed that he video taped the funeral ceremony held for the President in Egypt and Ramallah in order to use them in the film, which he will begin work on once the morning period is over.

According to the Qatar based daily, Al Raya, Nour stressed that he will seek a good scenarist to write the script of the film once he completes collecting all the needed research on the President’s life.
It was added that once a scenario is written he will move on to nominating stars from around the Arab world to take part in the film, which still has not found a source for funding it.

Source: [Albawaba] via [Subzeroblue]

This is definitely a movie that I would be interested in watching.