I am truly humbled by the tremendous support and love you have demonstrated to me. This now places even more of a burden on my shoulders to be more responsible in my approach to this blog, and these feeling have also demonstrated to me how much bigger than a single person this Den has become which has grown to be a large community of friends and colleagues which I am truly privileged to belong to.

Mahmood of Mahmood’s Den

A petition has been launched against the blockage of Mahmood’s Den. Please support free speech in Bahrain by signing it and sending the link to as many people as possible.

Link to petition

Bahrain today has blocked what is probably one of the most famous blogs in the Arab world and toot blog Mahmood’s Den.
The state of censorship in the Arab world is getting increasingly worse!

The first space tourist happens to be an American women with Iranian origins, Anouseh Ansari. Not only that, Ansari is also the first person to blog from space. Awesome stuff, eh?
Check her blog here:
http://spaceblog.xprize.org/

Mabrook Ihath!