Hi Pierre, I am the CEO of Circles Digital "circlesdigital.com" , a web development company located in Atlanta - Georgia, but most of our clients are in the middle east (Kuwait, Jordan, KSA, UAE, Qatar and Bahrain).
Some of our own projects are catch a crash www.catchacrash.com, is a photo sharing website for car accidents, and it has huge traffic and posts from the middle east. Also we are launching one the biggest online arabic magazine in the coming two days www.kolbayt.com. I hope that help Moe On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Pierre El Khoury <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Mo, > > I am interested to know more about your digital activities and Internet > business in the Arab world. > Could you please point out your fields and your web page/blog if any? > > Cordially > > -- > Pierre el Khoury > Ph.D, LL.M, DEA > > Sector 5, Street 21, No 3 > Baouchrieh - Beirut > LEBANON > cel. +96170265619 > --- > > This electronic message may contain privileged, confidential and copyright > protected information. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please > immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail and all its > attachments. Please ensure all e-mail attachments are scanned for viruses > prior to opening or using. > > > > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:51 PM, moe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Guys, >> >> This is my Mohannad Yousuf and I am in digital content and Internet >> business since 15 years. Being part of the Internet community, I feel that >> I need to express my opinion about the development of the CC project in our >> region the Middle East. >> >> I was watching the CC progress in the middle East from a distance for >> quite a long-time, maybe it is a little late to step in now, however I found >> it proper to post what I have in my mind regarding the development of the CC >> in the Arab World. >> >> I remember the first time I looked at the CC website was in 2004, and I >> found the 1st project for the Middle East was CC – Jordan, and there was no >> other project in that region, and I was happy to see the first Jordanian >> Arabic license among all other non-Arabic countries license, and today we >> are in 2013, I came back after 10 years to check about CC in the Middle >> East, and in my humble opinion still not much has been accomplished. Too >> many emails going back and forth and five or six meetings in the region but >> not sure what has been achieved. >> >> Now we have the Egyptian license finally ready, but I am still not sure >> whether it will create more Arabic content in the Middle East. You can say >> now that there is Arabic license but how much this will help to build >> community and how many people will be using it and what kind of content will >> be available under the Egyptian license. There are 22 Arabic countries "I >> hope I got the count right :)" , and all of them have different laws with >> different levels, do you think a blogger for example in Morocco will publish >> his work under the Egyptian license, why he should choose it? Is it because >> it is in Arabic? Can’t he simply use the CC generic license to protect his >> content? >> >> Now after almost 10 years I believe that the only reason that the CC wants >> to publish the Egyptian license is simply because they don’t have any other >> license written in Arabic and they want to tell the community that they have >> a license in Arabic, even if it is not usable for the whole CC community. >> >> Respectfully >> M >> >> -- >> >> لقد تلقيت هذه الرسالة لأنك مشترك في المجموعة "CC Arab World المشاع >> الإبداعي" من مجموعات Google. >> لإلغاء اشتراكك في هذه المجموعة وإيقاف تلقي رسائل إلكترونية منها، أرسِل >> رسالة إلكترونية إلى [email protected]. >> >> للنشر في هذه المجموعة، أرسل بريدًا إلكترونيًا إلى >> [email protected] >> انتقل إلى هذه المجموعة على >> http://groups.google.com/group/cc-arab-world?hl=ar. >> للمزيد من الخيارات، انتقل إلى https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > -- لقد تلقيت هذه الرسالة لأنك مشترك في المجموعة "CC Arab World المشاع الإبداعي" من مجموعات Google. لإلغاء اشتراكك في هذه المجموعة وإيقاف تلقي رسائل إلكترونية منها، أرسِل رسالة إلكترونية إلى [email protected]. للنشر في هذه المجموعة، أرسل بريدًا إلكترونيًا إلى [email protected] انتقل إلى هذه المجموعة على http://groups.google.com/group/cc-arab-world?hl=ar. للمزيد من الخيارات، انتقل إلى https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
