It never ends, does it? The following photo of Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri (Ar: محمد عابد الجابري), who died recently, was taken in 2009 by Fahd Alhazmi (فهد الحازمي). The photo was taken during Riyadh Book Fair 2009 and posted here. Interesting note about the original photo, Mohammed’s eyes were closed and Fahd has edited the
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Posts Tagged ‘frustrations’:
More plagiarism from the Saudi mainstream media
Plagiarism is Hilarious!
Someone told me that once. I think it’s true. I am sad to see that this original post by Youssef on March 31st pictured here: Was copied (I decided not to put a link to the plagiarized article) in this post on April 2nd. I will just put a picture instead of linking: I am
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Photograph theft by Sabq “online newspaper” – updated
Update: Sabq has removed the photograph without adding any statements regarding the issue. They also censored all comments about the stolen photograph. From now on I will call Sabq (سبق) “Sarq” (سرق) as in “theft”. In a news post ironically about theft, Sabq has included an image taken from Yousef Raffah without his permission. Yousef
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Why don’t we give credit where credit is due?
Why do we (generally Arabs, mainly Saudis) always go out of our way to not give credit? Look at this funny cartoon: As you can see between the two cars, this image is made and copyrighted by “Daniel Bozet”. However in this example the author took the time to crop out the credits from the
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Flickr with Nokia Share Online 4.3
I have a Nokia N79, a very basic Symbian S60 phone. One of the frustrating things that the Share Online app (an app that allows me to upload media to web services) only listed 2 services: Vox and Ikbis. Flickr (the biggest online photo service) was not available for a number of countries including Saudi
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