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Ask About Life, Blogging and Linux in the Middle East

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-the-local-scoop-by-talking-to-the-locals dept.

Isam Bayazidi is about as far from the current U.S. media stereotype of an Arab as you can get. He's worked on the Arabeyes (Unix/Linux in Arabic) project, helped start the Arabic Wikipedia, co-founded the Jordan LUG, is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), works as a senior software developer for Maktoob, an online community that boasts more than four million members, and created Jordan Planet, a blogging community whose members have many different religious and political viewpoints. Isam is also a long-time Slashdot reader, so he's the perfect person to ask what's going on in the Arab (cyber)world today. One question per post please. Isam will answer 12 of the highest-moderated questions. We'll run his answers verbatim as soon as he gets them back to us.

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  1. get in the soup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP

    fuck da gnaa

  2. Interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...but does it run Linux(tm)?

  3. Re:A serious question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nothing at all. It's just another lame attempt by Slashdot to stay relevent way past its "due date".

  4. Writing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's with the funny writing? Don't you want good old Americans to be able to read your stuff? We only want to help...

  5. translation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    durka durka durka jihad durka durka jews durka