Arabic Version Of StartUpArabia Officially Launched

One of the points many people asked for after the official launch of StartUpArabia back in April is an Arabic version, insisting on how important they thought it was. I couldn't agree more, and it was always one of the main points in my plans for StartUpArabia; and so my answer was always that it was currently underway and that it would be ready soon enough. Well that soon enough is now, and the Arabic version of StartUpArabia is officially launched here: http://www.startuparabia.com/arabic/ There are a number of posts already available there that have been translated from the English version,...

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Is That Your Son?

Last night, after some quick shopping at Geant (TunisCity's hyper market), just after paying, putting everything back into the cart, and seating Adam in the cart's child seat; a security guy came up to me, pointed at some point behind me and asked if the boy he was pointing at was my son. What was really weird is that I actually turned around, looked at the boy and then replied that he wasn't my son. As I was saying the words, I realized how stupid and absent-minded that all was; I mean, I just seated my only son in the...

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Southern Fried Chicken Opens In Al Nasr 2

This past weekend we discovered and tried out a new fast food place called Southern Fried Chicken on the Hedi Nouria road in Al Nasr 2. I had passed in front of the place a few weeks ago, and it was still not open yet, and thought I'd check back on it when it was open, and this weekend we did and went in and tried it, twice. Southern Fried Chicken (SFC) is as its name suggests a fast food restaurant mainly specializing in chicken meals, à la KFC for those who have had the pleasure. SFC is a UK...

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Mozzarella's Open Sauce Browser In Tunis Hebdo Newspaper

Today's Tunis Hebdo newspaper has the following bit of "interesting" news in it: La fondation Mozzarella veut faire entrer son navigateur Open Sauce Firefox 3 dans le Livre Guinness des Records... Which in English means: The Mozzarella foundation wants to enter its Open Sauce browser Firefox 3 in the Guinness book of records... Neat, huh? So yeah, it's Internet meets Pizza. The guy must've been hungry while writing the article. But it doesn't stop there, this article is actually a rip-off from another website, the content is basically copy-pasted. So they're not only guilty of stupidity, but also of plagiarism...

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Caramel (Sukkar Banat)

A few days ago we watched Caramel (Sukkar Banat), a Lebanese movie directed by Nadine Labaki. I heard a lot about the movie and read many reviews of it on several blogs, and had wanted to check it out for months before I got the chance to. The title Caramel refers to an epilation method used in the Middle East that consists of heating sugar, water and lemon juice. The movie is a romantic comedy that revolves around the intersecting lives of five Lebanese women. Layale works in a beauty salon in Beirut along with two other women, Nisrine and...

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