All the Syrian TV year were disapointed . Nothing new and you can’t see any real improvement in the TV tools . We still watch the same techniques used before 6 years without a real normal development.
Syrian TV Series
September 5th, 2009
A Syrian talent behind the bars
May 18th, 2009These exclusive pictures in the above album is drawn by one of the talented Syrian whose their destinies were very bad . After a lot of trials , he failed to get an opportunity to be a real painter. Although his talent is awful , he failed to have a support from any one even those who claims that they are ready to help. he is now behind the bars in a forgery case
Susan Boyle : You are Fantastic
April 19th, 2009
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Susan Boyle
You can’t compete Susan Boyle who in fact surprised me after her appearence at ” Britain get Talent 2009 ” . I have red about her in Alarabiya.net and after that I searched about her video in Youtube. She was Fantastic . I can’t explain how hapy?I was?when I was watching her. I cried trying to believe at the end that it is not a matter of your fashion , it is a matter of talent. She was as one of Charles Dickens characters shocking you at the begining and tell you at the end that life is a matter of hope.
UAE: Media Law Undermines Free Expression
April 13th, 2009
(Dubai) ? A new draft law to regulate the news media unlawfully restricts free expression and will unduly interfere with the media?s ability to report on sensitive subjects, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The pending law also includes provisions that would grant the government virtually complete control in deciding who is allowed to work as a journalist and which media organizations are allowed to operate in the country.
The 13-page report, ?Just the Good News, Please: New UAE Media Law Continues to Stifle Press,? says that the new law contains some improvement over the draconian media law currently in effect. But it will continue to punish journalists for such infractions as ?disparaging? government officials or publishing ?misleading? news that ?harms the country?s economy.? Human Rights Watch researched the report by analyzing the provisions of the pending law as well as interviewing foreign and local journalists based in the UAE.
?The law will muzzle the press, preventing honest reporting about the country?s continuing financial crisis or about its rulers,? said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. ?Its vague clauses and harsh fines will almost guarantee arbitrariness by government authorities and self-censorship by the media.?
The Federal National Council, the UAE?s legislature, passed the draft law on January 20, 2009, and it awaits the signature of President Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. More than 100 leading Emirati academics, journalists, lawyers, and human rights activists have urged the president to reconsider the law. The Human Rights Watch report also urges the president not to approve the pending law in its current form.
Unlike the current law, the proposed law contains no criminal penalties and will be part of the civil law. It reduces the number of administrative infractions that media organizations can be held liable for. The law also instructs government institutions to facilitate information flow to media, and, most significant, mandates that journalists cannot be coerced into revealing their sources.
But, along with the continuing restrictions on content, the pending law has other provisions that do as much to harm press freedom as they do to improve conditions, Human Rights Watch said.
The law imposes exorbitant civil penalties that could bankrupt media outlets and silence dissenting voices found to violate the overbroad restrictions on content. Media organizations found to have ?disparaged? senior government officials or the royal family face fines up to 5,000,000 dirhams (US$1,350,000), and those found to have ?misled? the public and ?harmed? the economy face fines of up to 500,000 dirhams (US$135,000). It also requires media organizations to post an unspecified security deposit against which fines may be charged, which would set a significant barrier to entry for smaller, independent press organizations.
Provisions governing media licensing do not clearly articulate the standards the government will apply in approving or denying licenses, effectively granting the government unfettered power to determine who may or may not publish information in the UAE, Human Rights Watch said. The pending law also gives the government power to suspend the licenses of newspapers, radio stations, and television channels for insignificant infractions of the law?s vague restrictions.
The law also gives the government authority to regulate who can work as an editor, reporter, correspondent, or producer in the country. This authority is susceptible to abuse and infringes on the media?s freedom of expression by preventing media outlets from organizing, managing, and operating free from governmental interference, the report says.
?These intrusions make a mockery of the notion that an independent media exists in the UAE,? Whitson said. ?The president has the option to send this law back and to show leadership in seeking a law that truly supports a free press.?
Obama wants to say : Save Us Iran
March 21st, 2009Nothing is new in Obama’s message to the Iranian Leadership and people . We can only conclude that The Americans are in the corner and need a help from the Iranians who only have the ability to save Americans from sinking in Afghanistan after they win in Iraq. The New York Times has published on 13th of this month saying that America is seeking for a route of Afghan supply even in Iran and before that , the same content has been published by The Washington Post. American now is in a crisis . The supply rout which should be safe through Afghanistan turn to be an unsafe rout for the supplies of its troops . In recent months , we used to hear about a continuous attacks on a supplying caravans trying to enter Afghanistan from the city of Peshawar. Taliban has claimed the responsibility about that attacks. There is no alternative of that route can be used except the safe route of Iran.
No body knows yet the Iranian reaction of the possible American ask to use Iran as the alternative route to Afghanistan . In fact , America is under siege in Afghanistan. It is surrounded by a real hidden and clear enemies. Even Pakistan which is considered as its ally is in a big troubles and in a case we can describe is as a cold civil war. Nothing is safe their. Even the president can be attacked and killed.
According to the American Army , 75 % of Us supplies is passing through the region of Taliban activity. The alternative which US is targeted is a route linking Afghanistan to the Arabian sea by Iran .There is already a road constructed by an Indian company linking between the two cities of Dealaram and Zarnag in Afghanistan and which are linked by a well constructed road to the Iranian border. Using this rule needs a compromise between US and Iran . Such this compromise should be based on a hard deal between the two sides. The security of Iran and its rule in the region will be a part of this deal. Not thing is final yet. It still needs months to sea the signs of such deal.
Orient and Syrian TV Services
March 20th, 2009
Orient can be classified as the first professional Syrian independent satellite channel . Addounia which tried to be that has failed to be an attracting destination for Syrians. It still broadcast as an amateur channel without a smell of professionalism. A lot of problems are inside it. The last problem is the termination of its Director , the dentist , Fouad Charbajy , who had worked before as the Director of Syrian Official TV and who failed to achieve anything during his period. The point of weakness in Orient is a lack of a political debate . It may due to the owners interests who is based in UAE and has interests in Syria and Egypt.
Obama is a Marketing Face which will try to sell a vey bad Product for the world.
February 24th, 2009
It is very difficult for US which has been implicated in a lot of conflicts all over the world to persuade itself that it is now weak and relatively Bankrupted. for that and for the lobbies interest in the US political Life , Obama will not make a difference. He has been come to try to late the bankruptcy of the American Regime. I don’t think that he will do any thing good. Obama is a Marketing Face which will try to sell a vey bad Product for the world.
The Visit of the Saudi intelligence chief to Syria :A deal to save ..
February 15th, 2009What they can offer ?really I don’t know . The intelligence work is very sophisticated and sometimes illogic. After two years of cold war between Syria and Saudi Arabia , We can’t expect a lot . you may ask why? The answer itself is very simple : there is a clash between the both interests , especially in Lebanon.
I think that Saudi is trying to save the next election and try hard to make it in its side. Making a deal with Syria is a way of many . We should wait to clarify what especially going on .
The first true scientist
February 4th, 2009
* Professor Jim Al-Khalili
Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time.
At the very least, he is the undisputed father of modern optics, or so we are told at school where our textbooks abound with his famous experiments with lenses and prisms, his study of the nature of light and its reflection, and the refraction and decomposition of light into the colours of the rainbow.
Yet, the truth is rather greyer; and I feel it important to point out that, certainly in the field of optics, Newton himself stood on the shoulders of a giant who lived 700 years earlier.
For, without doubt, another great physicist, who is worthy of ranking up alongside Newton, is an Iraqi scientist born in AD 965 who went by the name of al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham.
Most people in the West will never have even heard of him.
As a physicist myself, I am quite in awe of this man’s contribution to my field, but I was fortunate enough to have recently been given the opportunity to dig a little into his life and work through my recent filming of a three-part BBC Four series on medieval Islamic scientists.
Modern methods
Popular accounts of the history of science typically suggest that no major scientific advances took place in between the ancient Greeks and the European Renaissance.
But just because Western Europe languished in the Dark Ages, does not mean there was stagnation elsewhere. Indeed, the period between the 9th and 13th Centuries marked the Golden Age of Arabic science.
Great advances were made in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, physics, chemistry and philosophy. Among the many geniuses of that period Ibn al-Haytham stands taller than all the others.
Ibn-al Haytham conducted early investigations into light
Ibn al-Haytham is regarded as the father of the modern scientific method.
As commonly defined, this is the approach to investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge, based on the gathering of data through observation and measurement, followed by the formulation and testing of hypotheses to explain the data.
This is how we do science today and is why I put my trust in the advances that have been made in science.
But it is often still claimed that the modern scientific method was not established until the early 17th Century by Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes.
There is no doubt in my mind, however, that Ibn al-Haytham arrived there first.
In fact, with his emphasis on experimental data and reproducibility of results, he is often referred to as the “world’s first true scientist”.
Understanding light
He was the first scientist to give a correct account of how we see objects.
He proved experimentally, for instance, that the so-called emission theory (which stated that light from our eyes shines upon the objects we see), which was believed by great thinkers such as Plato, Euclid and Ptolemy, was wrong and established the modern idea that we see because light enters our eyes.
What he also did that no other scientist had tried before was to use mathematics to describe and prove this process.
So he can be regarded as the very first theoretical physicist, too.
He is perhaps best known for his invention of the pinhole camera and should be credited with the discovery of the laws of refraction.
He also carried out the first experiments on the dispersion of light into its constituent colours and studied shadows, rainbows and eclipses; and by observing the way sunlight diffracted through the atmosphere, he was able to work out a rather good estimate for the height of the atmosphere, which he found to be around 100km.
Enforced study
In common with many modern scholars, Ibn-al Haytham badly needed the time and isolation to focus on writing his many treatises, including his great work on optics.
An unwelcome opportunity was granted him, however, when he was imprisoned in Egypt between 1011 and 1021, having failed a task set him by a caliph in Cairo to help solve the problem of regulating the flooding of the Nile.
While still in Basra, Ibn al-Haytham had claimed that the Nile’s autumn flood waters could be held by a system of dykes and canals, thereby preserved as reservoirs until the summer¹s droughts.
But on arrival in Cairo, he soon realised that his scheme was utterly impractical from an engineering perspective.
Yet rather than admit his mistake to the dangerous and murderous caliph, Ibn-al Haytham instead decided to feign madness as a way to escape punishment.
This promptly led to him being placed under house arrest, thereby granting him 10 years of seclusion in which to work.
Planetary motion
He was only released after the caliph’s death. He returned to Iraq where he composed a further 100 works on a range of subjects in physics and mathematics.
While travelling through the Middle East during my filming, I interviewed an expert in Alexandria who showed me recently discovered work by Ibn al-Haytham on astronomy.
It seems he had developed what is called celestial mechanics, explaining the orbits of the planets, which was to lead to the eventual work of Europeans like Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton.
It is incredible that we are only now uncovering the debt that today’s physicists owe to an Arab who lived 1,000 years ago.
* University of Surrey
Be Amazed
January 24th, 2009
