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BBC Item on Saudi Blogs
The BBC story "Saudi Arabia's bold young bloggers" reports there are, despite some of the relatively closed aspects of the society, 500 to 600 Saudi blogs. Some are in Arabic, of course, and some are in English. There are women blogging as well as men. Although I don't spend much time cruising blogs, I find blogs from various parts of the world fascinating because of the glimpses they give of faraway places. When I was a child, the only prospect of communications with someone in the Middle East, Africa, or wherever would have been by postal corespondance or, if I had gone into amateur radio, by shortwave. Now it is easy to browse around the world. I took a quick glance at the three Saudi blogs mentioned by the BBC:
On Foud al-Farhan's blog, there were some English language comments asking how the visitors who cannot read Arabic might read the blog. I left a suggestion for using Google Translate and its Arabic - English (beta) translation function to render the pages in English. Just copy and paste the foreign language Web page's URL into the translator and select the Arbic-to-English option. (Google will do translations for other languages than Arabic.) Although machine translations are rough and are no substitute for a knowledgeable human translator, this one looks useful. جوناثان د. أبولينس |
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