Hello everyone we are glad to announce that ArabCrunch is back after staying away for around a month. This happened for reasons out side our hands. We decided that we would never close ArabCrunch.

From now on we promise you more fresh news, views and take on on Arab Tech, social media and entrepreneurship and how they impact our lives politically, socially and economically.

Stay tuned.

2 days ago I arrived  to my beloved country Egypt. I am planning to stay here for few days, in mind with  a new project that would help push entrepreneurship in Egypt and the region and I would like to meet the startup and tech community here.

The post title says that ArabCrunch is in Egypt, not that ArabCrunch is not here, it is. We already have Arabic tech writers and team members who are Egyptians like Mohammad Sayed and Moemen Mohammed, our security partner Spirula Systems and above all our readers and fans.

I would like in this trip to meet with everyone startups, VCs, geeks and our readers. So we might have a small meetup soon.

Are you a college student or recent grad who has passion for online marketing and wants to get some solid experience from a well known tech media brand?

Do you like to help startups?

If the answer is yes, then we would like to welcome you to join our growing team and help you in your career path.

What we will require from you is 2 to 3 hours of work a day to carry some marketing and business development tasks, including forming partnerships with tech events around the world and in social media marketing.

Requirements:

- Student or recent grad in marketing or computer related field.
- Passion for technology and startups.
- Passion for social media, marketing and an active user on Twitter.
- Fast learner.
- Excellent English in speaking and writing as it will be your primary language in work.
- Disciplined and honest.
‫-‬ Does not work and never worked with any spying agency or with the freeMason underground network. As these organizations try to infiltrate media sites.
- You do not have to be an Arab, nationality does not matter, however candidates from recently freed countries like: Egypt, Tunis, Libya and for sure Gaza will have priority.
- We do not differentiate between male and females, both are welcomed.
- This is unpaid internship and you will work from home and you should have your own computer.
- Send your CV to jobsATarabcrunch.com and tell us why you want this internship.
- If you prove to be good in your work we will consider you for a full time position if you have the necessarily resources.

One of the oldest online news sites in Jordan Ammoon has accused Jordan Intelligence in hacking the site.

The sites’ editor in chief Bassel Elkour told Jordanian newspaper Assabel the hacking happened when the site posted a statement from some of Jordan’s tribal leaders criticizing certain parties inside the government and corruption in Jordan.

Okur added that the site received direct threats from certain Jordanian security parties one day before the hack and on the next day a message popped up on the site saying that “ because you did wrong to the images of the country your site has been hacked by Jordanian expats in Australia! ” Okus dismissed the message as a decoy.

Like Tunisia, Egypt and the rest of the Arab countries Jordan is a police state who’s intelligence interferes in all aspect of life: sports, tech community media etc and has strong ties with the CIA.

On the story that Assabeel posted about the incident one commenter wrote: “ anyone who accuse Jordan intelligence will die!”

The country has recently been witnessing demonstrations across many cities against economic conditions, inflation and in demand for policy change. The country’s main opposition party showcased last month evidence of fabrication to the last parliamentary elections’ results.

Jordanian opposition main demands are a new election law and a change to the constitution which allows the prime minister to be elected or emerge from a parliament majority block, rather than how it is done now: appointed by the king.

On the 29th of November ArabCrunch represented by its founder Gaith Saqer, went to Egypt’s boarders with Gaza strip at the city of Rafah, trying to get an entry to the besieged strip.

Saqer’s intention from entering Gaza is purely humanitarian and non political, the plan was to connect with relevant parties and AC’s team in Gaza to prepare for AC’s events that would help the Palestinian youth start new startups as such help downsize the employment tall on around 1 million Palestinians living in gaza and to help improve the living conditions of many gazans and Palestinian refuges who live off UN aid.

The other humanitarian aspect of the visit, is that Saqer want to visit and meet his extended family who he did not see since over 22 years.

The Egyptian government receives aid annually from the U.S government with a billion or so dollars.

ArabCrunch express its disappointment lets hope the Egyptian authorities’ decision is not based on US government pressure.

Updated.

There is no doubt that here at ArabCrunch we were big fans of Twitter since the day it was launched. We favored it over its Arab clone WaWet, for many reasons on top of them international adoption rate and a large applications ecosystem.

We were happy that Twitter opened a new platform for the world to communicate on 1 to 1 and 1 to many bases, as it played an instrumental role in breaking barriers including boarders.

However the nasty hand of politics comes to spoil things up.

Our compeitiors the US state department interference is not new with Twitter, as they asked Twitter to postpone its scheduled maintenance to give a chance for “the pro democracy revolutionary attempts in Iran”

And since we are under cruel assault by the US administration and its CIA along with the Zionist movement and certain their Arab “allies.” We raised a very legitimate question whether the CIA, Mossad and any other intelligence agency have access to our accounts on Twitter or any of our staff, or not. We are looking for simple answer Yes or No. But until now there is no answer! the tweet was sent on the 27th of sep.

We feel suspicious because we’ve been seeing retweets and replies from mostly social media Arab mercenaries and not normal tweets! Those tweets were designed to install confusion in our staff mind as a physiological warfare against us and as a failed attempts to mislead the public with a new coverup for the CIA crimes against free media.

Giving access to the CIA, Mossad or any other intelligence such as NSA and specially those in certain Arab country has catastrophic results:

1- We can not rollout that we use Twitter to communicate with some of our news sources, as such access to the CIA, NSA and Mossad would put them in grave danger.

2- If the motive before for the CIA/Mossad and Zionism in destroying ArabCrunch is based on colonial dictator and imperial lust to control free media outlets in politics or tech. Now they have a new motive, which is retaliation because we exposed some of their plots against ArabCrunch and other independent Startups founded by independent Muslims, as such they can send a tweet on our behalf that would put us in legal trouble and impressment under certain anti-free media laws in certain Middle Eastern oppressive and dictator banana republics regimes.

We have a message to the CIA and their Aarab tails, we understand what social graph means since before Facebook was public, you will never be able to find our sources. We will do anything (legal) to protect the brave American men and woman who risked their lives to warn us of your criminal plots.

We will never share our password on Twitter, google or else where with anyone, even under torture or a new type of blackmail.

We hope Sean Garrett @SG from Twitter communictations or anyone from Twitter will come and answer our legitimate question.

Update 1:

Sean replied to our question if twitter gave admin access to the CIA/FBI/Mossad/NSA and Other Agencies to Our Twitter Accounts? “um no. just as much chance of this as Twitter being the gunman that killed JFK.”

which is a great news, but we still waiting for him to answer if these agencies asked/have/had any type of access to our accounts.

The US State Department entered into competition against ArabCrunch with very “fair terms” under the pretext of “helping Muslims.” As part of the Obama’s Promise and engagement plans for entrepreneurship and tech innovation in the Muslim world as a new pillar to fight “extremism” or “terrorism”. And After we posted about a leak from sources with relevance to both US department of Defense and US State Department about the US administration plans to destroy Arabcrunch of “if we do not join them, they will destroy you”( The leaks are security level leaks to the US administration.) A wave of social media propaganda started against ArabCrunch on Twitter and elsewhere offline.

The main allegation is that “we come to ArabCrunch to read tech news not politics.” some said ” I was a fan, now you lost me, forever”!!

Where were these people when we covered Obama’s entrepreneurship summit? Or when we covered the Arab funds that got funded by the US government?? These posts were not political too? the US administration is political in nature? Where were these people who attended the event with Obama along with US intelligence officials? this is not politics! No this is just “business”!!! Why they were fans at the time and now “No more?”

As we started to reveal more of the plots committed by the CIA, Mossad and the global Zionist movement to bring us down, the social media propaganda campaign grow. Now we see more blog posts by low level unpopular blogs attacking ArabCrunch and its founder with whatever they can by calling our posts as “rants” “ArabCrunch is a personal blog, no more professional” they are hallucinating. “He needs series help!!!”

Why now? why would these people take the effort and time to come and attack ArabCrunch with such a cheap way?

Well, most of the propagandist are Arabs or who have fake Arabic profile on Twitter. non of these people ArabCrunch attacked by name before, while some are self confessed Zionists and “Israelis”, So why they are attacking us?

Very simple reason, most of these people are paid social media mercenaries,  all these tweets, blog posts with “ready made thread of comments” are mostly a propaganda campaign designed to mislead the public about the authority and credibility of ArabCrunch that it took us about 2,5 years of hard-work at night and at sun light. Why they are misleading the public?

This CIA leaked document shows that the US intelligence had plans to destroy Wikileaks since 2009 by attacking its heart which is its “trust,” so people around the world specially Americans discredit any leak on wikileaks as fake and not true!

So these people where just misleading the public to cover the crimes the CIA and Zionism committed against ArabCrunch and other Muslim independent websites. Whether it is an intentional move by most or unintentional by a few, who were miss lead by those poppets.

One of the tweets of the people who was tweeting with enthusiasm against us (claiming to be fans and then swithcing sides later!!) “made fun” of a certain Arab ruling family member linking them to ArabCrunch. In that country and by law insulting members of the ruling family means jail for about 2 years. The guy and those who Retweeed after him is never prosecuted and never go to jail!!!

We totally condemn that tweet and totally disagree with it and we wont link the person or the tweet here so we do not get into trouble by “miss understanding us” from the authorities in that country. However these are one of the attempts to bring trouble to us by any means possible.

Look at this Tweet here:

Mustapha said he never heard of ArabCrunch untill the other guy wrote “some propoganda” in his post about us, and he found us “a bunch of loonies.” Yet he has been following or knew about AC from at least 2009 as this Tweet reveals: (sorry Mustapha we had to link your Tweet, it was public)

To political and media observers, these propaganda campaigns are very old school tactics that are not new to the US administration, CIA, Mossad and Zionism and their history of blackmailing anyone who “do not join the good effort.” or “the good fight for the good cause!”

The US administration and hillary clinton has a history in misleading the public and launching propaganda against its enemies or rivals or basically anyone who “do not join.” In technology the hypocrisy was very clear when Hillary attacked China for infiltrating China’s regime oppositions’ email account on Gmail and called for Internet freedom in her speech. as she said
“We stand for a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas,” citing China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt among the countries that censored the Internet or harassed bloggers!

Yet on the same day, the US administration goes and orders the largest open source software repository online, sourceforge, to ban 120 million innocent people in Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria and Sudan from downloading open source software. In yet another contradiction of the open source principals: of No discrimination against persons or groups or Fields of Endeavor!

In China Google shuts down its offices and rally the world, the pretext “free speech,” yet in our case, CIA and Zionism have freehand to accesses our email on google! no security, no privacy to sites that are from the Muslim world!

It is worth mentioning here for the sake of disclosure that Google founders Sergey Mikhaylovich Bri and Larry Page are both Jewish.While ArabCrunch founder is Muslim, Arab and a proud Jordanian his father is originally from Gaza strip of Palestine which is occupied by “Israel” a jewish run state.

The US government have a history in attacking free-media that expose its crimes against humanity, Aljazeera was bombed before and its staff were murdered by the hands of US warrplanes.

Here is also a video of how US government treats journalists from Reuters:

We know some will come and say, “who is ArabCrunch compared to Aljazeera? or Wikileaks? Wikileaks is leaking sensitive data that “are deemed” threat to the US national security by exposing informants names! ArabCrunch is a tech blog not a political blog.” Some others said “what you are doing is propaganda to gain popularity” while others said ” You failed and this is to cover your failure.” another new soft attacks by both some Arabs and Zionests “we are unfollowing ArabCrunch because it is now a political blog.”

We refuted at the beginning of this post the political allegations, but we do not know which is true “are we losing popularity because we uncovered parts of the CIA and Zionists plots against ArabCrunch, or are we gaining??” Did we fail or are you at our glory?

Again all these claims are designed to mislead and confuse the silent majority of mostly American and European men and woman who refuse tyranny and blackmail to stop following ArabCrunch and to discredit us from any credibility with multiple contradicting claims and deceptions!

Its 100% true that our resources are not a match at any level to those who attacked us and to those of the US federal government or to those of the Zionist moment. We do not have half a billion to spend to buy one of the world’s top hosting companies. We can not pressure governments or orchestrate coupes ( even if we did we will never.) But our operational costs are low, even though the attackers are making their best to cut any chance of our growth or existence. Whether they are sources of news or revenues that can cover our costs. But our traffic is all times high, Generally, success or failure of any websites is based on traffic growth and We got that! All the thanks to God and then to you the reader. But US Admin is pressuring advertisers not to advertise on ArabCrunch.

It is true that we are not at the size of Aljazeera, it is true we are not a political blog, which we were wondering why would they attack us? are we a threat to US national Security? Are we a threat to Zionist Security and control on the world? We are not terrorists for sure, we have a nobel cause in helping entrepreneurs and geeks in the Muslim world and all over the world. But the CIA, Mossad or Zionism do not just attack or try to recruit political figures or Main stream TV stations in the Muslim world. Or only head of states. If you read the Entrepreneurship in Banana republic post you will know that they try to recruit or attack businesses and the media. The Social media front is nothing new to them with their attacks on Millatfacebook.

To conclude, one of the claims is that Arabs live under “conspiracy theory” and that ” in that part of the world ( Muslim world) often when they fail, they start to play the victim side!”

The truth is that conspiracy theory is no more theory when facts in the ground exist, conspiracy is lived everyday in the Muslim world, Why Palestinians were driven from their homes and land confiscated on almost daily bases? Why Palestinian Muslims and Christen woman and men are humilated in Israeli prisons and check points every day? Are they super powers? are they not victims or are the playing the victim side? did the 2 million innocent Iraqi children, women, men and the elderly, plaid the victim side? when the US federal government war machine systematically murdered all of them?

We have no political affiliations at ArabCrunch nor an ideology, we don’t consider anyone as enemy even the US administration and for sure we do not enjoy writing about the CIA Mossad and Zionism plots against us.

But we have the right to expose those who attack us and inform the public about “how things are being done with Obama’s promise to the Muslims world.” ArabCrunch was not the only site whose leadership is from an independent Muslim and Arab background, Millatfacebook was attacked by the same group: CIA and Zionism.

We want peace and we do not want to be involved in any politics, we are not just another commercial startup, ArabCrunch is a cause, our mission is to drive entrepreneurship and tech innovation in the Muslim world and the globe. And this mission requires to inform the public how things are being done in these 2 frontiers.

We are not anti- American or Anti Semitic, we are anti- injustice tyranny and blackmail of special interests at the US government. “Israel” is put into quotations simply because that area is a conflict area, this is not a political statement.

We understand carefully that CIA and Zionism will launch a strong retaliation against AC and Gaith Saqer bigger than just tweets for exposing their crimes and find out who our sources of leaks are. The nature of retaliation will be the usual fabrication of crimes that often happen to political opposition in most third world countries. When that time comes ( seems very soon), then the same people ( and new faces) who launched these smear propaganda against AC and its founder, will come yet again, to justify every byte of the fabrication.

ArabCrunch over Twitter around a week ago said that AC’s founder was aware he was under surveillance, he confirmed that he was aware since several months ( might mean 5-7 or 20 or 40:) (surveillance: that does not necessarily mean on the ground or just online by NSA, we do not comment at this point for security reasons.)
The leak from the US State Department and US department of Defense about Obama’s administration criminal plans (CIA) to destroy ArabCrunch are a security alert to those agencies and their dogs, as such the agency and its dogs would look for sources of the leaks and any evidence.

We mentioned for the first time in the last post who is behind the terrorist DDoS attacks and criminal hack of ArabCrunch blog. Now we will reveal more plots, as all these plots were designed to force ArabCrunch founder to become a CIA agent or remove him from the leadership position or get red of him in one way or another or destroy ArabCrunch with anyway, whether by blocking advertisers from advertising on AC so there are no revenues and we go bankrupt, or to the level of cutting the line of communications for ArabCrunch have with the outside the world, by manipulating our email on google ( we did not talk about Voice yet).

The CIA/Mossad and the global Zionist movement are ready to go at any level to destroy AC. The Zionist infiltration of United States of America is a secret to too many Americans, the way they operate is no different than they way Banana republics operates: control key power elements: Media, Economy then you control politics.

In 1997 the world hottest news was about Bill Clinton Monika Laynski Scandal, The US president was blackmailed by this young Jewish girl, she had her shirt with the “evidence” for 2 years! why? because she was a trap (card) to be used when needed.

Some say in USA that the blackmail was orchestrated by the Israeli Prime Minister Natneyaho, Monika is a member of an Israeli Party and when she went back to “Israel” she was greeted with flowers and roses as a hero who saved “Israel.” We mentioned in the last post, that the father of Gaith Saqer the founder of ArabCrunch is Dr. Mohammad Saqer a senior Muslim BrotherHood leader, and was an ex-president of Islamic university of Gaza.

• Dr. Mohmmaed Saqer is believed to be a former Hamas leader during his stay in Gaza in the 1980s. in the 1980s and during Dr. Mohammad presidential period of Islamic University in Gaza he was a target for several assassination attempts. He lives in Jordan and teaches at the University of Jordan.

Again we stress, AC’s founder Gaith is NOT a member of Muslim brotherhood or Hamas or any political parties. AC’s founder is not involved in any politics. But his job requires him to meet people from different walks of life. That does not mean he agree with anyone point of view or believes.

The Mossad is always actively fresh for new recruits as a recent announcement reveled that they have succeed in recruiting a son of a Hamas leader. Mossad tries to recruits not just Hammas leaders but their direct family members. Not just that anyone they can add as an asset. and Not just Mossad tries to recruit other Arab Intelgance agncies and the ICA too.

• One of ArabCrunch American fans who owns shares in one of the most poplar sites in USA has been facing several lawsuits.

We asked him if those are because of his support to AC, he said “Yes extreme Israelis are behind this!” The guy is not Muslim or Arab by the way!

• CIA acquired ArabCrunch hosting company

ArabCrunch was in negotiations with a major hosting company in Texas: Softlayer, the hosting deal would bring salable server bandwidth to serve AC’s growing visits. We were waiting for this deal to happen because we had a deal with another company that would bring us 10s of millions of visits per month and potentially make us the number 1 blog or 2 in all categories ahead of Huffington Post. Negotiations with the hosting company took sometime and was about to close when we were close to close the deal, boom a private equity firm comes and acquires softlayer!!! And who is this private equity firm?

It is GI Partners a firm that has secured $4.0 billion of capital commitments on behalf of recognized institutional private equity and real estate investors in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

GI Partners is CIA front for its business, spy and military operations, GI Partners runs an imam program to brain wash Iraqi prisoners and destroy their well, a common tactic used before by clonal powers such as UK the program name is Russian and East European Partnerships (REEP) Inc., REEP/OSS Web site, also offers “intelligence support operations.”

A REEP Inc. Web site announced in August 2008, for example: “Counter Intelligence Agents – Urgently needed. – There is a unique opportunity to serve the United States as an interrogator and Counter Intelligence Agent as part of a rebuilding effort in Iraq.” (This REEP Web site has been taken down since truth-out.org asked a REEP official about the ad in August, and the REEP web address now transfers visitors to a combined REEP/OSS Web site.) So Basically did GI Partners blocked our partnership with Softayer? well since the deal went south after GI become the owner. We believe so. Now we are hosted with a CIA owned company.

• CIA/Mossad Accessed and tampered ArabCrunch EMAIL

That means not only the CIA and Mossad have access to our google email but the CIA have direct access to our server! Very nice! We mentioned before that the CIA and the Mossad had access to our email, now also confirmed: our server, We know that certain data that belong to us else where has been played with, and since there are thousands of files we do not know what else was added or deleted. Probably not just to fabricate crimes against AC’s founder and AC but also to wipe of any evidence of their passing by!

• Former Israeli Army Solider is one of the people behind Obama’s Entrepreneurship Plan

Former Israeli Army solider (six years in the Artillery Forces) Mickey Bergman is a major architect of Obama’s and the US State department “Muslim entrepreneurship engagement plans” Founder and President of the Solel Strategic Group (SSG) Current clients include: the Clinton Global Initiative, the Aspen Institute (jointly with the U.S. Department of State), New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, the Robert Redford Center at Sundance, and J Street.

Completed contracts also included the Reut Institute, former Member of Knesset Ami Ayalon, the American Jewish World Service, the Elders, and the University of Utah. He also works Aspen Institute as Director of the US-Palestinian Partnership (UPP).

With the Governor he helped negotiate a “ceasefire” between the government of Sudan and local Darfur militias He continues to work in collaboration with Governor Richardson as his Foreign Policy Advisor to the Middle East and Africa.

Aspen Institute is the main think tank behind Obama’s engagement and tech plan for the Muslim world: this person who is involved “very much” with these “efforts” is a former Israeli army soldier.

• Coupe attempt in certain Arab Country in September linked to the CIA

One of our friends is an Arab foreign minster, we asked him to help us get signatures from other Arab and non Arab foreign ministers in the illegal and the obviously now unfair competition from the Obama’s admin.

He promised to raise the issue with secretary general of Arab league and make it a discussion issue in the next meeting of Arab foreign Minster which ended last week! Boom, coupe attempt in that country! email does not arrive to his inbox and no much wording from him!

• Other Plots:

The other plots that the some CIA criminals did from leaking wrong news that we know that they are wrong, but they leaked them in-order to make us write about them which would bring our coverage trust down.

The other plots were designed to confuse AC’s founder and make him think “even by force that he is hallucinating” one more! the CIA and Mossad pigs have started a counter campaign on new blogs, or via tweets making fun of AC and trying their best to confuse the public that “who is AC” it is nothing! no cares about you! Well we are something, and Obama is determent with his entrepreneurship plan to engage Muslims in “a very nice way” as the case with AC and the case or Iraqi Journalists.

• Former FBI Director Running Obama’s “Engagement” with Muslims

Oh this effort is run by Former senior FBI executive at the US nationally security advisor. FBI are “nice people!” It is not just ArabCrunch, every Muslim tech Startup should submit to Zionist and CIA well or out of business. It happened to others but they did not publicly talk about it. We did! and we are almost done!

When ArabCrunch founder Gaith Saqer started ArabCrunch he made his best to stay away from politics as he was advised that in this part of the world it will bring him and AC problems.

At ArabCrunch we never accused “Israel” of anything, we never opened the books of the Zionist movement intentionally because we know how strong they are at least in USA. We understood the consequences of such events that it would create problems to us inside USA at least. But that was not enough they wanted Gaith to “become a spy or die.”

When the DDoS attack against ArabCrunch happened we intentionally refused to point the finger against anyone, Why? because we hopped we can survive it and that there wont be more plots that can bring us down to the ground.

But today we can not shut up in the face of growing conspiracies against us. We have been doing investigation (before or immediately or after the DDoS attack, this information can not be provided now) and the investigation lead us to know the parties behind the terrorist DDos attacks, the criminal defemation and hacks of ArabCrunch blog that insulated Islam and all other criminal plots against AC and its founder, designed to bring ArabCrunch down or we have to work for the Zionist agendas.

The CIA, Mossad and the global Zionist movement are the ones behind these attacks all other parties are just tails. The DDoS attack and the subsequent hack attacks against ArabCrunch and all other criminal plots against AC and its founder.

The DDos attacks where not just a diversion of AC’s resources to be on the defense but to make AC move its servers to be hosted outside USA with a certain company in a Banana republic whose “laws” will ensure AC can be brought to legal troubles.

Another revelation we make today is that the father of ArabCrunch founder (Gaith) is Dr. Mohammad Saqer who holds PHD from Harvard. Dr. Mohammad is a senior Muslim Brother Hood leader, and was an ex-president of Islamic university of Gaza.

in the 1980s and during Dr. Mohammad presidential period of Islamic University in Gaza he was a target for several assignation attempts. When he visited Jordan back at one occasion the Israeli occupation of Gaza refused to give him permission to go back to the strip. Dr. Mohammad is a Jordanian citizen since the 1960s. He then kept the presidential position He currently lives in Amman with his wife after 2 divorces with his son and doughtier of AC founder. AC’s founder lives down satires of Dr. Saqer house. AC’s founder is not a member of Muslim brotherhood or Hamas or any political parties. AC’s founder is not involved in any politics. But as his job requires to meet people from different walks of life. that does not mean he agree with anyone point of view or believes.

The Mossad often targets not just Hamas members or people who might be in some relation with them ( As Hamas has originated from Muslim brotherhood) for recruitment also their immediate families such as this spy. Other intelligence agencies too monitor and do its best to recruit Hamas family members.

ArabCrunch founder Gaith Saqer’s mother is Zulikha Abu Risha, she is an opinion writer at a local newspaper -alghad- and a poet. Most of Zulika’s writings are in social issues. essentially she attacks Islam and works in changing the public precipitin about Islam under the pretext of such posts as the Athan voice is too load!

Obama and hillary are liars in being against burning the Quran!

ArabCrunch was not the only Muslim website targeted by DDoS attack and other plots from the CIA and Zionism , Millatfacebook too experienced that.

MORE TO COME…

Despite the ever growing plots, we are happy to announce that ArabCrunch has made a new milestone, last month we grow at more than 50% now serving around 150,000 pageviews.

This furthuer inforce our readship and our readers trust. We will continue to serve you, thank you for visiting and using ArabCrunch we are happy to serve and continue serve you with unbaised tech and startup news and coverage and with our social apps to help you in your startup or your technical skill.

With this milestone ArabCrunch enforces its leadership in the world of Arab tech blogs and news. We remain #1 tech blog from the Arab world. and remain being ranked #6 worldwide in blogs about innovation and e-commerce and 11th in startup ahead of blogs in those topics from media icons such as FT, WSJ and forbes according to US based invesp. (as noted our monhtly vistis is close to 100,000 not 7,388 of what Inveps reports as for engagment ranking with postrank, well due to the terrorirst DDoS attacks by groups of International criminals postrank could not access our engagemnt for this year

If we compare ArabCrunch readship to local Jordanian media, -where I am from- ArabCrunch readership overpass all English print media togather business or entertianment such as Jo, Jordan Business, Venture and so on, Online: ArabCrunch ranks second in English after the political and Jordanain govemrnet owned JordanTimes.

Thank you all for your support, those milestone are not enough to many to advertise on ArabCrunch even though we are a niech.!!!!!

It seems we can not sustain the ammount of the other plots that are coming to us from certian International criminals. However we will try to stay here and alive.

National Security counsel of the united state of America is part of the whitehouse and is used as a forum for US national security and foreign policy issues. Its members include top US executives such as the President and US army chief.

Pradeep Ramamurthy is Senior Director for Global Engagement at the National Security Council and is in charge of Obam’s entrepreneurship plans for the Muslim world.

Around 2 weeks ago, we asked US embassy council if we can have an interview with Pradeep via email but he replied back that Pradeep has refused. we asked why? he told us he thinks it would not be productive?

Why it would not be productive? This is not the right answer to send to the media. Does “not productive” means he thinks that our questions might be hard for him to answer and that ArabCrunch will not be a propaganda platform for his policies?

We do not know, but Pradeep past job is with the US intelligence community as being a senior FBI aid. We wonder why someone with FBI background is handling entrepreneurship with relevance to the Muslim world? is it to make sure that Arab and Muslim entrepreneurs are not terrorist? are 1,5 billion Muslim doomed as terrorists and have to prove they are not by joining the US government? and kiss hands?

Does Pradeep’s “no productive” means that final decision to destroy ArabCrunch -and its founder as our U.S Department of defense and State Department sources have informed us, -is made and final at the highest executives authorities in the Obama’s administrations.

Is the US government retaliation a is imminent and fabricated pretexts to take us down can not rolled back?

knowing that we tweeted at the time of that we advice those who plot against AC to stop their plots before it is too late. ” we did not mean anyone in specific”

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“Exposing War Crimes is not a Crime.” this is the slogan of Supporters of US intelligence soldier Bradly manning, they have started since few weeks online and offline campaign to free the suspected Wikileaks whistle-blower.

Bradly is a suspect of leaking massive amount of Inelegance cash about the war in Iraq and US embassy communications in Middle East, that if exposed would shed the light on many secrets and CIA operations in the region.

Yesterday facebook has frozen Bradly Managing facebook supporters page facebook.com/savebradley has been and the admin could not login to update it and post information or links on the page.

The network of supporters emailed facebook but noreply, but after Wikileaks Tweet about the matter and BradllyManaging supporters post along with other supporters efforts the page is unfrozen.

One of the videos Bradly Managing leaked was this one where it shows US army helicopter kills innocent journalist in Baghdad :




Brady has been held in custody since few monthes and is facing criminal charges for leaking secret dumps.
US Congressman Mike Rogers asked for his execution. However Bradly is lucky of being US citizen, if he was a citizen of certain Arab countries, he would face cooked up crimes he did not commit.

At ArabCrunch we feel worried that CIA/ Mossad and other intelligence agency access to our email might lead to expose  our sources with relevance to US department of Defense and the State department. We feel worried about the fate of AC’s founder Gaith Saqer that might put our sources in grave danger.

In a meeting at the house of Dr. Saed Salamn head of Ajamn network Dhahi Khalfan Tamim Dubai Police chief said that United States of America is the first beneficiary from absence of BlackBerry surveillance in his country, and said that USA has an interests in Spying in his country.

Al Tamami showed before evidence of “Israeli Mussad” intelligence agents being behind an assignation which took place in Dubai early this year killing a senior Hamas Military members.

Tamimi added that “the west” has acused us that we have curbed BlackBerry users’ liberty while USA, UK, “Israel” and other countries are allowed to access all users data. Al Tamimi remarks in the meeting was published by Alkhaleej newspaper (Arabic link.)

In the meeting that gathered some of top telecom, IT and education executives in the country, the speakers asked for establishing tech research centers in the country to support decision makers and stressed the need for local engineers to handle sensitive data, as Dr. Mansour Al Our cited that information security  is very important now a days, he cited examples of information leakage one of them in 2005 and 1997 with Israeli spying on US President Bill Clinton and on the US State Department, he cited Bill Clinton Monica Lewinsky case as another example of Israeli spying in the united states of America. saying that Israel has provided components to computers that were used by US security and its political branches.

Other speakers like Ibrahim Shamsi head of communications wondered why UAE government seeks help from foreign experts to assess and laydown plans for its branches IT needs while there is existing local talent?

Saudi Arabia has reached an agreement with BlackBerry to get access to users data, our sources with relevance to telecom operators in region told us that UAE and BalckBerry are expected to reach such agreement at the end of the road. UAE said before they are banning BB by next month.

(Discolors: Unfortunately US State Department is a competitor to ArabCrunch.)

There have been some confusion among some our followers on Twitter and facebook about our tweets since we recently started to share our readers’ comments on ArabCrunch English and Arabic.

Yes, we started to tweet our readers’ comments on ArabCrunch via our Twitter account, but that does not mean we necessarily agree with them, it is just to inform our Twitter followers of these comments and to offer our readers more visible voice. If anyone do not like the comment, he/she is welcomed to comment back on ArabCrunch.

Normally when we share a reader’s comment, we start the tweet with “comment” or “commenter” or the user name depending in how best we can shrink the tweet into 140 characters, the limit that Twitter offers.

On the Retweeting: We do retweet tweets from our followers and other places around the web, again that does not mean that we necessarily agree with the content of the tweet or the post. It is just that we find the Tweet or the post worth sharing or think it is of interest to read, again that does not mean we necessarily agree with the tweet’s content in fact in many occasions we do not. Example, if we stumbled into a post about “how Communists work with technology,” that does not mean we are communist, in fact we are NOT and we DO NOT have any political ideology or bias at ArabCrunch. But it would be of interest to know how communists use or work with technology.

This also applies to our facebook page, as we also started to share with our followers some of our users’ comments and other posts from around the web.

At personal user level, people need to note that if a person “Likes” a page or an update on facebook, it does not necessarily mean he/she really “likes” everything in that page or update, he might disagree with the whole update. But since Facebook does not have the text option of “follow” status update or “follow” a page many people will think that this person truly likes this page because the word is “liked”, which in many cases is not true. As again it might be something he/she likes to share or follow, however in other occasions he might truly like that post or update.

We hope this post clarifies some of the confusion about the stuff we share on Twitter and facebook.

Thanks,

Aramex the Jordanian based international delivery company has been always been in the forefront when it comes to utilizing technology and the web to add more value to its customers.

The company which was the first Arab-based international company to trade its shares on the NASDAQ stock exchange  ( now listed in Dubai Financial Market -DFM) has launched about yesterday its iPhone app to help its customers manage their Aramex shipments using an iPhone mobile.

The iPhone app has Shipment Tracking feature which allows you to add shipments to your list, show the current tracking update for each, give your shipments “nicknames” . You can also view the detailed tracking history for each of your shipments.

The app also comes with Office Locations features which allows you to quickly find the nearest Aramex office using GPS, you can also lookup the address and phone number for any Aramex office. The app requires iOS 3.0 or later.

Similar features of the iPhone app are already available on Aramex website.

Aramex has also shopNship a delivery service that helps residents in the Arab world buy from international e-commerce sites such as Amazon. The company has formed recently a number of partnerships with regional e-commerce startups offering their extensive delivery and logistics base of over 310 locations around the globe, not just to deliver goods but also to collect payments.

Aramex founder and CEO Fadi Ghandour is an active angel investor in many startups, he previously was one of Maktoob’s investors and made a nice exit with Yahoo’s buyout.

(Disclosure: Fadi Ghandour is a member of ArabCrunch Advisory board.)

Yesterday was the first day of the holy month of Ramadan in some Muslims countries, and today it is the first day of Ramadan for the rest of the world. In this month all Muslims are obliged to fast from eating, drinking and having sex , from dawn to sun set.

In this occasion we send our greetings to all Muslims worldwide and specially AC’s Muslim readers. and to non Muslim readers of ArabCrunch we also wish you a happy August .

Here is our Greeting Video: Ramadan Entrepreneurship and Clinton:




As with every year here are some links to websites that help you know more about Islam:

Islam Guide.

Islam Web

Islamic Tube

Just Quran

Best Islamic Sites

Sisters Magazine

#image by Sama.

After we posted about Hillary Clinton’s and the U.S Department of State plans to enter into competition with ArabCrunch with a new project under the U.S department website. As part of the US government engagement plans for entrepreneurship in the Muslim world ,  as a new pillar to fight “extremism” or “terrorism” as the U.S administration says.

A lot of people misunderstood the issue as ArabCrunch is against competition.  The conversation about the issue dragged by some people  ”intentionally or unintentionally” away from the main points .

We are not against competition, in fact we already have competitors in different fronts and many of them are our friends, and many of us supported each other in different ways, competition is healthy and helps everyone innovate. History also has examples that even giants at the size of Google fail to compete with solid startup such Youtube.

But Google is not the U.S federal government. What we are against is unfair competition, the point about US Department of State entering in competition against ArabCrunch is that it is not just against free market principles, as our sources who are close to the US Department of Defense and the US State Department has informed us that if we do not join the US government effort, they will destroy “you.”

We already said “NO” to Greg Behrman Member of US State Department Policy Planning Staff about his “Collaborating” idea, as the term sounds like become “our spy.” And personally I hate that type of “business” “whether it is Evil “business” or whether “it is ethical and its ends and means are justified “. However, Craig might not “necessarily” mean “become our spy.”

To those who do not know,  The Washington Post recently published a web report about the size of the Intelligence community in USA alone, it includes about 1 million people and thousands of locations and companies that are used as a “cover” for secret operations.

Out side USA, the CIA reach is even bigger, they are “almost” in every country and the nature of their job is covered. Meaning they do not have the CIA banner on their T-shirts. You can use google for more info.

We are not here commenting whether the large size of the US intelligence community is justified or not, or whether all its operations are ethical or not, we are here just stating facts.

Some people have told us that there are many ways the CIA “might” hurt the writer of this blog post and ArabCrunch, “for example”, a small DDoS attack to divert attention from something else. US government pressure on certain other governments that would make life harder for us as another “example.” – PS: “example” does not necessarily means it really happened.”

That is why I talked about unfair competition and being “concerned”, their resources and reach is beyond mine or that of ArabCrunch at any standard. Even if the U.S Federal government resources put into this are not “massive.”

This is not a nationalistic feeling, it is not Arabs against America or Americans, or East VS. West, No. It is true that I am not American but a Jordanian citizen, even if I was an American citizen it would not be fare at any measure.

This is about  injustice and liberty.

At ArabCrunch we do not consider Americans as enemies at all, we do not consider any nation as enemy, we do not have this nonsense views. In fact we plan to increase our coverage of International & U.S startups, and more startup events not justs in the Arab world but also in USA and Europe to help drive innovation and create jobs. Again we have no political agendas at ArabCrunch or political opinions.

We are NOT anti-american as a certain “person” accused me wrongly before, at ArabCrunch and me have many American friends, and many of them have helped us in different ways. We admire innovative companies  in USA such as Google, Twitter, Gowalla and Facebook ( but not all Facebook practices) and we admire the entrepreneurship drive and culture in Silicon Valley.

I am not afraid as I wrongly stated, but “concerned”, again we have no plans in considering the US Federal government as an “enemy”, even  ”if” they do, or “if” “certain parties inside it do” or “is miss informed”. And I do believe that whats some people accuse some US federal government personnel of being “evil”  or “poppets to certain lobbies ”  is not necessarily true. I am sure many  people have good “intentions.”

But at least in technology, Hillary Clinton has proven before to be saying something and then doing something else. As with the case of China , Source Forge and around 120 million innocent people in South Korea, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan who were banned from the freedom to code freely. And the US president Obama has wrongly before called social media as “a distraction”, even though it was one of the reasons behind the success of his presidential campaign. Social Media includes blogs personal, corporate or professional, such as ArabCrunch.

The Guardian reported that earlier this year, “Wikileaks published a US military document which disclosed a plan to “destroy the centre of gravity” of Wikileaks by attacking its trustworthiness.”

We said before there are plots from different directions against ArabCrunch, we are not at liberality “now ” in identifying more info.

At ArabCrunch we are not “yet” mainstream, but we are not “nothing” as certain “parties” suggested, the fact is we are growing day after day and moth over month, and we have been for a while and still the #1 tech, startups and social media blog from the Arab world, our worldwide ranking according to invesp is number 6 worldwide in innovation and e-commerce categories and 10th in startups. Our ranking is ahead of entrepreneurship blogs from icons such as Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Forbes. ( taking into account that investp does not measure our RSS subscribers from Feedoor which we still use for now and that our monthly visits is much much more than what invesp reports.)

Again, we do not have political comments so we are not commenting whether George Bush is a great man or not or if Obama is a great man or not, but Bush said once “with us or against us”, we are not commenting whether this saying was applied before or still applies to the current Obama’s administration’s policy. But does this saying apply to the technology industry and entrepreneurship in the Arab and Muslim world? and to ArabCrunch? Is the U.S government “engagement plans” will be “positive” to everyone?  Even to those who refuse to join? or criticize “wrongly or rightly” ? The near and mid term future has more answers!

Yesterday I received many calls asking me about our sources who are close to the U.S State Department and the U.S Department of Defense who have informed us that if you do not find ways to collaborate with the U.S State Department, they will destroy “you.”

I am not at libirty to provide “sources” of anything of relevance to anyone. and I hope the following comment at the previous post that sounded from someone from “certain secret intelligence community” has any implications to my  personal freedom and  safety:

“Well obviously I think there is always room for such articles in the tech world. Specially when it’s on “the right” side.
Thanks for the writer and the people who commented. As long as, this topic remains here in this page “only” its no big deal. We can move on, just knowing what we had to know.
Thanks for the update “

#Images by: merfam, Ben Fredericson and Marco Bellucci.

Update: A NEW POST It Is About “Injustice & Liberty”: Update About Hillary Clinton’s Competing Project with ArabCrunch

Update 2: this is a long post: Our sources who are close to the U.S State Department and the US Department of Defense have informed us that if you do not find ways to collaborate with the State Department ” they will destroy you.”

Update 3: We are not looking for “cheap” publicity with this post. The event with Craig and Steven is older than the post publishing date. there are better ways to get public attention rather than involve such controversial issues that involves our name “VS. in some ways” the only super power in the world which would put the writer of this post safety  at “risks”. This post is not a waste of time. The public needs to know what is going behind the scenes. The public needs to know that what is unjust, unfair,  what is blackmail, hypocrite and “criminal in general, not pointing to anything in specific about the word criminal”

We hate politics at ArabCrunch and we try our best to avoid it, but this time it came to us.
Steven R. Koltai State Department announced recently during US Delegation on Entrepreneurship event held in Amman, Jordan at the end of last June that U.S Department of State will launch a competing project to ArabCrunch.NET on its website, the competing project will have mentoring match making targeting Muslims and Arab entrepreneurs. And it comes under the U.S Federal government and Obama‘s plan to “support” entrepreneurship in the Arab & Muslim world. As a pillar in a new policy to fight “terrorism” by engaging with people in the region.

During the event which was organized by a new event group in Amman Called Amman Tech Tuesday, I raised my hand asking the delegates who some of them are real entrepreneurship like Tom Kelle from TechStar and Shervin Pishevar SGN and an investor in gowala to join ArabCrunch.NET, that led some people (without mentioning names) to call my question as “advertising for ArabCrunch”, while others told us that the “whole event is a propaganda for the US. government.”

Then I  moved on to ask Steven from the State dep. that we do not feel comfortable at ArabCrunch to have the U.S State Department competing with us, since the US federal government has over 1 trillion USD in yearly budget, 1 million soldiers, Nukes, around 1 million CIA, FBI and other intelligent personal inside USA alone let alone the company that operates under other cover “and let alone in other countries around the world.”

I told him we can deal with the private sector competition, but not with (the only) super power like the US government. This move is 100% against the capitalist principles and the free market ideology that the United States government has been professing around the world for decades. I also told him that this sound like Communism.

He replied back by saying there is room for everyone and the amount of resources the US gov. is putting in this is low! Yes it is low to take down a small startup like ArabCrunch. And I do not believe that people at the US Stat Department believe there is something called room for everyone!

After the event Greg Behrman from the US State Department and a Member of its the Policy Planning Staff, has proposed that I meet him along with Steven in order to discuss and “collaborate” off course I said NO, as the term “collaboration” meaning becoming spy in the technical term.

I recently sent the following message to Creg from the state dep. and yet he did not reply:

Sir,

Apology for not replying earlier, I understand your government is about to launch a competing project to http://arabcrunch.net with a mentoring website at the U.S. state dep. site   among other projects aimed on entrepreneurs  in the name of helping!

This means the US federal government is competing with a private startup from the Arab/Muslim world: ArabCrunch. which is 100% against the  principles of free market and the freedom  innovation that US federal gov. professed around the world for decades , Governments should  not enter in competition with the private sector, specially if they are indigence.

As I said in the US delegation event in Amman, Jordan last month, ArabCrunch can not compete with the US federal government, which has over 1 trillion USD in yearly budget an army of over  millions soldiers  CIA/FBI agents nukes and what not with advanced weapons.

Your friend from the U.S Stat department answered by saying there is room and not all U.S federal budget is put into this project. Room? Yes for sure it does not need billions to destroy ArabCrunch and oust it. It needs very little effort, actually there no way to even  compare between AC, me and US. Federal gov. Me and ArabCrunch are no match to your resources at any level, we do not even make 6 figures, we are still in the startup mood.

At ArabCrunch we got NO political agenda, we are not an NGO, Mark Zagroubring said once you can not change the world by being an NGO, because you will be begging for money all the time. We are a startup aiming to help other startups and geeks speacialy Arabs and Muslims . and until now ArabCrunch is the only one  from the private sector  in the world doing what we do, with focus on Arabs and Muslims.

My advice is that the U.S federal government or any of its agencies should not  compete with ArabCrunch network and not fund (directly or indirectly) those who start competing projects to ArabCrunch group.

This makes me honestly scarred and not just worried about ArabCrunch but also about my own personal safety. US gov. is a super power, we on the other hand are Nada. Also I am not sure how would the US government feel about a small non American entity that is competing with it, in some of its projects and that is growing day after day. As i have no intention in leaving or closing ArabCrunch at any case.

I can deal with competition coming from with private sector, but at the level of governments ( specially if they are Super powers or backed by) I get really  worried.

Thanks,”

The US government has started a competing Arabic news TV to Aljazeera with its 100%  owned ” Alhurra Arabic TV”, and before its army has bombed Aljazeera offices in Baghdad and Afghanistan killing Aljazeera Jordanian correspondent in Baghadad. A memo that was leaked during Gorge Bush terms said that he had planned to bomb Alajzeera Head Quarter in Qatar.

Yesterday, a US republican Congressman has asked for the execution of alleged Whistleblower Bradley Manning. Wikileaks also recently published a leaked document that dates to 2009 about US army plans to destroy wikileaks image to the public by attacking its heart ( trust.)

Our sources who are close to the U.S State Department and the US Department of Defense have informed us that if you do not find ways to collaborate with the State Department ” they will destroy you.”

We are not a political organization and we do not have any political agendas, but it seems George Bush motto of “with us or against us” is still valid and applies to not just to politics but also on tech and entrepreneurship!

We’ve been and still under attack from different directions, we will not consider the US Federal government or any other government as enemy even if they consider us as so “directly or indirectly.”

It would be interesting to see how far the “engagement plan” will go to!

#Hillary Clinton photo by merfam. other photo by 3alarasi.

I am happy to have Spirula Systems as our servers admin partner, I recommend them to anyone, here is the press release for immediate publishing:

Amman, Jordan – Alexandria, Egypt. ArabCrunch – the number one tech, startup social media and mobile a English & Arabic blog, social network, and events in the Arab world – announces today forming a new partnership with Spirula Systems, the new rising Egyptian startup focusing on system administration and security.

Founded in 2008 ArabCrunch is the only entity from the private sector in the world that is fully dedicated to empower entrepreneurs, startup, tech professionals, and geeks in the Arab world, and emerging markets  via its network of sites and events. With over 100,000 page-views per month today ArabCrunch includes: ArabCrunch EN, ArabCrunch AR, ArabCrunch.NET, ArabCrunch DEMO and ArabCrunchStart global events.

In April, ArabCrunch EN which is ranked 6th in the world in blogs about innovation,  has been under massive DDoS attack followed by penetration attempts, Since then Spirula Systems played a pivotal role in defending ArabCrunch servers.

“We are proud to partner with a company that helped us during the hard time of the criminal massive DDoS attacks that brought down Arabcrunch.com site for few days, the attack was followed by penetration attempts” Said Gaith Saqer Founder and Editor of ArabCrunch.

Spirula System will bring its staff’s extensive experience in systems security and server administration to manage ArabCrunch servers and defend them from future and current cyber threats and attacks.

“Unfortunately there are people with bad intentions online, who keep using sophisticated techniques to bring down many useful and innovative sites, with this partnership we will stay on top of threats that ArabCrunch servers face and offer our expertise in defending them.” said Ahmed Mekkawy, founder & CTO of Spirula Systems.

In his part Saqer said ” Our partnership with Spirula will help us focus on continuing to serve our readers and members with breaking and insightful unbiased news and analysis and great apps and events.”

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About ArabCrunch:

ArabCrunch Group’s mission is to inform, impact, inspire and create an Arab centric technology ecosystem that delivers unbiased information, empowers and connects Arab entrepreneurs, geeks, and technology professionals, both in the region and throughout the world via its properties, ArabCrunch En and Arabic blogs ArabCrunch.NET and its events.
ArabCrunch EN:
The ultimate source for Arab tech startups, companies, social media and mobile in the Arab world.
In 2009 ArabCrunch EN was ranked according to postrank as the in the top 24 worldwide engaged blogs ahead of Financial Times, WallStreet Journal and Forbes blogs about Entrepreneurship. Today ArabCrunch is ranked #6 worldwide in the blogs about innovation, 7th in e-commerce, 10th in the startups category according to invest.
ArabCrunch.NET
ArabCrunch.NET is the first and largest online social platform dedicated to connect and support technology companies, entrepreneurs, geeks, scientists, academia and investors in the Arab world.

About Spirula Systems:

Spirula Systems is a startup that is located in Alexandria, Egypt. Following the professional open source business model, and embracing free software values, Spirula aims to support the small to medium business switch its IT infrastructure – or part of it – to the use of open source software. This support varies, starting from switching the systems and being the second level support, to designing complicated structures spread across multiple geographical locations and operating such a system so as to keep it secure and to help maintain its high performance.
Supporting the local free/open source software communities is a commitment that we have taken upon ourselves, as without such communities all the software we use would not exist.

Our mission is to support and encourage business decision makers in adopting Free/Open Source Software, by offering high quality, reliable, and affordable services. While our vision to achieve that is to give systems, security, and infrastructure services to small-to-medium businesses, while targeting the local market, the MENA region, and the whole world.

The time was around 10:00-11:00 pm, the day Thursday April 19th 2010, the first ArabCrunchStart meetup has just concluded in Amman, Jordan. The meetup was planned as a starting point for a series local meetups in Jordan  as a preparation to launch ArabCrunchStart as monthly event in Jordan. I went to check ArabCrunch.com’s current visits, it was zero! so I went to arabcrunch.com to make sure if the site is down or not, and yes it was down. Shortly we found out we are under DDoS attack, the DDoS attack brought arabcrunch.com site down for around 4 days, and it is still ongoing but thanks to Spirula Systems and its defense techniques, our server load is healthy and we are serving you here!

Few days after the DDoS arabcrunch.com faced a new type of attacks, this time the target is ArabCrunch brand, ArabCrunch honor and ArabCrunch EN traffic that is coming from search engines. A Hacker/s installed a script inside our wordpress (We use wordpress for blogging at ArabCrunch.com, ArabCrunch.NET is sound and safe from this hacks) that was sending google and other search engine wrong titles and snippet about our posts. The result of that was changing ArabCrunch.com listed results under certain keywords with miss-leading titles that include sexual content with words such as Viagra ex:

These were not intended to redirect traffic to certain viagra website who would in-turn gain from ArabCrunch strong SEO and search engine rank, No, as when clicking on ArabCrunch infected search results  on google the user went directly to the original post on ArabCrunch.com not to another website.

The attacker/s who did hack our wordpress, have also no respect for Islam, as the following Eid Maburak post on google was targeted with a special message that insulted Islam ( no other infected link had the same content):

( there is no text in the original post that had the following (in other words we never wrote this): “… and do whats right in order to make it, in the life after death, as surly Islam is truth and only religion of Allah… buy Viagra Online No prescription . buying Cialis Online)

We managed to find the malicious code and thanks to Google’s help we managed to white-list most of our search results. But our Google rank is down to 4 from on 5!

This attacks and others have diverted our efforts from developing useful stuff and apps on ArabCurnch.NET, from investing more time and effort on organizing great events to drive entrepreneurship and tech innovation in Jordan and across the world to waisting our time and our limited resources into defense and in chasing spammers over night!. However ArabCrunchStart went ahead and our first event was concluded by ArabCrunch great US ambassadors in Seattle, USA: Amir and Rony. (Thank you Amir and Rony and everyone who attended, more to come.)

The people who did these attacks are a bunch of criminals who have no ethics what so ever and no conscious, they use the same methods of hide and kill that a certain well known group of criminals use: hide using a cover, try to look innocent, talk nice and promise great promises, only to fool you and deliver their deadly spears aimed at your heart to kill you or rape you, or to blackmail you in order to achieve their unethical and evil objectives. They use a wrong justification that says “the objective justifies the means”, but they fool themselves only, as their end objective is also evil as their means!

We did not post any “terrorist items” on ArabCrunch, and for sure we are not “terrorist!” The Attackers Are! We do not have any political agenda our focus is on tech, startups, social media and mobile. But does anyone consider post like this as terrorists content ? I hope not.

Are these attackers part of a bigger hidden multi-layer plot to destroy ArabCrunch?!!

However these attacks just made us stronger, not just because we are working hard but because of God Almighty first and then You, Yes, YOU the ArabCrunch reader and user, not just the Arab and Muslims users, but You as everyone from every nationality and from different religious backgrounds from almost every country of this world. You the ArabCrunch reader has proven to these criminals that they wrongly calculated their attempts as our visits and pageviews have increased by more than 40%.

Because of God and then you, In the last 2 month ArabCrunch sites has broke the 100,000 pageviews milestone per month, ArabCrunch achieved that milestone without even spending one cent on advertising. (Only 100$ Twitter giveaway of useful books was given to #ArabCrunch24 contest winner Noha congrats to her support) Again all credits goes to God first then you the reader, then to ArabCrunch ambassadors and team.

100,000 pageviews is not that massive number compared to other main stream sites, but its an achievements since we did not spend any Advertising dollars, and since we are a very small team.

It took ArabCrunch around 2 years since its inception to reach 100,000 pageveiws/month with zero ad spending. While it took 4 years of hard word  for our friends  ( that we respect) at the #2 blog in the world, Mashable to achieve the same milestone in early 2009.

In the blog ranking, out of more than 200 million blogs in the world, our blog engagement rank on PostRank before the attack increased from #24 to around #11-13 as the most engaged startup blog in the world, but after the DDoS attacks it went down below 100, not because AC’s readers (you) are less engaged with ArabCrunch but because postrank can not access our engagement due to the techniques we are using to prevent and block the ongoing DDoS attack. However on our Invesp rank we are still holding number 6 worldwide in the innovation category, advanced our  e-commerce rank from 7th to 6th and advanced our startups rank from 13th t0 10th worldwide also ahead of icons such as WSJ and Financial Times blogs about Entrepreneurship (note that Invesp does not calculate our Feedoor RSS readers which we mainly use). In any rank ArabCrunch EN is still #1 English tech blog in the Arab world and arabcrunch.net is #1 startups and geeks social network in Arabia. Again all thanks to God almighty and then to You.

ArabCrunch is resilient and as an emotional geek who see injustice in many places and fronts around the world, who loves what I am doing with ArabCrunch, I promise you to keep the course and even double the efforts in the coming days, weeks and months and to never surrender and never give-up!

Until this moment ArabCrunch is the only independent entity from the private sector in the world that is dedicated full-time to empower entrepreneurs, startup, tech professional and geeks in the Arab and emerging world via its network of sites and events, as such in supporting ArabCrunch you are also supporting building the tech ecosystem that is much needed to grow innovation and tech advancement in emerging markets specially in the Arab and Muslim world. The more startups we have, more jobs are created and more people can enjoy a higher level of income.

One hand can not do everything, ArabCrunch needs your support with whatever you can, please prove to the criminals and the gangsters who are still attacking AC until this moment, that they will be defeated and the liberty to innovate and blog freely about tech and innovation and the freedom to help entrepreneurs and geeks to excel in the Arab and all over the world (without any political agendas) is preserved by doing one or all of the following:

15 ways to help ArabCrunch:

1- if you work or own a tech company you can support us by advertising on ArabCrunch, it is not a donation, you are getting an awesome ROI from running campaigns on a social site which is followed by thousands of tech led community from Amman to San Francisco.

2- If you did not signup to ArabCrunch.NET please do now and make sure your profile filled and up-to-date.

3- Pleas take a moment on ArabCrunch.NET and invite your friends and contacts via email, Facebook and Twitter this will grow ArabCrunch.NET community and be a benefit for everyone.

4- If you find your self able to provide mentoring please fill the mentorship app here in order to empower the community and help grow the tech and startup industry in Arabia and beyond.

5- If you are a developer or with business or entrepreneurial skills, you can help the community by answering open and other questions  on Developers Q&A or Startups Q&A, make sure to add relevant tags to your profile in order to get questions ans answers matches.

6- On ArabCrunch.com the English blog you can help us drive more traffic by Following us on Twitter (if you are not already) and also by ReTweeting our future posts. Keep coming here back every day

7- You can help ArabCrunch.com and let more people know about our posts on facebook by hitting “like” button or sharing AC posts on Facebook. If you do not follow us on facebook you can do so and hit “like”. Also Remember to Suggest ArabCrunch page on facebook to your friends there.

8- Share our posts on ArabCrunch EN via email with your friends and you can start now by emailing all your contacts telling them about ArabCrunch.

9- You can help us leverage massive amount of traffic by submitting or voting our posts on Digg, Reddit or Ycombintator news.

10- If you are a geek, slashdotting our posts might provide thousands of new visitors in less than a day.

11- If you are not subscribed to our RSS feed, please do now, and If you are using Google reader make sure to Hit “like” or “share” AC’s posts.

12- Add ArabCrunch icon as a signature to your profile if you are using a Forum and link to your profile on http://ArabCrunch.NET or to http://arabcrunch.com or http://arabcrunch.com/ar .

13- You can also add the above banner to your website or blog with links back to http://arabcrunch.com  and http://arabcrunch.net

14- If you  have a blog you can write a blog post about ArabCrunch, anything from why you read it and where you think we need improvements,  this will help more people know about us and the startups we cover.

15- if you have hot news or a tip please share it with us, we will never mention your name if you ask us to, but please make sure to tell us that in the email.

Lastly, thank you all for your support, please stay tuned for great stuff coming from ArabCrunch soon – by the will of God- And to those who have sympathy with the attackers, please spare us your negative comments

PS: we have no intention what so ever in attacking anyone, we will just continue working hard to serve the community.

PS: ArabCrunch reports also social media and sometimes its political impact, ArabCrunch has no political affiliations, I hope this wont cause us problems with anyone.

In the late 90s Aljazeera set the stage of political debates that was never seen before since the inception of modern media in the Arab world . As Arab leaders and governments are often criticized, something that was not possible before as each countries population was depending on state run media or often censored private media.

In the 2010s facebook and social media from new comers like Millatfacebook to old players like Youtube and even older such as forums seems to become the weapon of choice for political change and activism.

Facebook today started offering new users in the signup walk through  suggestion for pages for them to follow, these pages seems to be local to each country, which is different from Twitter suggestion as on Twitter they are mostly from the US.

In Egypt facebook is offering users a number of pages on top of them the facebook page of We are all Khaleed Saeed from Egypt who was beaten to death by the Egyptian police according to its admin.

The fanpage in Arabic boost 159,459 members with levels of engagements around 300 likes and 150 comments per status update. According to Egyptian newspeper Almasery Alyoum “Eyewitnesses say that police dragged Saeed from an Alexandria internet café and beat him to death in front of onlookers. Police, however, maintain that the victim died after choking on a package of marijuana that he had been attempting to conceal during his arrest.”

The page which its admins said that they aim to pressure the Egyptian government to end emergency laws and stop torture has managed to organize silent rallies across Egypt the biggest of them was in Alexandra the home town of Khaled and was lead by presidential hopeful Mohammed ElBaradei.

There are 3,581,340 people who said there country is Egypt on facebook, which means the fan page has reechoed around 2 % of Egypt’s facebook population. The page was dispatching status updates encouraging followers to rally and not stay silent with such messages as this one:

“Zeinab: I’m an 18 year old Egyptian-American who wants nothing more than to march down the streets of Cairo with you all, but I will support you from afar. Ohio – USA”

2 days ago Alexandria District Attorney Yasir Rafai has ordered that Mahmoud Salah Mahmoud and Awad Ismail Suliman, policemen from the Sidi Gabr Police Department detained for four days pending investigation into allegations that they had used excessive force against Khaled Saeed. In its blog post facebook said that suggested Pages are based on:

“posting engaging updates. The list of Pages is strictly determined by an algorithm, so none of the suggestions is sponsored and Page administrators can’t pay or ask to be included.”

In Jordan where I am from and currently live- the top suggested page  is what it seems the unofficial page of King Abdullah II of Jordan the page boost around 30,658 members, there is no presence for the king’s wife Queen Rania page which boost around 237,861 members.

We announced around a month ago ArabCrunch Ambassadors and ArabCrunchStart initiative, today I am happy to announce the soft launch of the event in Seattle USA, on May 26,2010.

Thanks to Rony Ferzli and Amir Kabbara ArabCrunch Ammbasadors in USA.

ArabCrunchStart global events aim to help, at the grassroots level, entrepreneurs to begin their startup journey and to help tech professionals innovate and excel in their careers.

Here is the live streaming:

Live Videos by Ustream

In our first US event, our guest speaker, Amad Almsaodi, will be sharing his entrepreneurial journey and experience.

Guest speaker: Amad Almsaodi

ArabCrunch mission is to help enable a tech revolution in the Arab and emerging markets, we are seeking a bright, energetic, and dedicated  Ruby on Rails and PHP Ninja developers to help take the first and largest social platform that empowers startups and techies in the Arab and emerging markets ArabCrunch.NET to its next level. And to help in customizing the WP engine of the most popular blog in the world about Arab tech startups and companies.

Are you up to the challenge?

Responsibilities include:

• Work in developing the next great features that empowers the tech ecosystem.

•  Work with our small business, engineering & design staff to plan and design powerful web applications.
• Develop web applications, and maintain existing applications.
• Formulate and execute on plans to enhance existing applications.
• Develop test cases that match the designs, and ensure that the software passes test standards.
• Assist with deployment and implementation of web applications.
• Research and recommend new technologies to support application development goals.
• As we are a startup your job requires working on other technical issues.

Work experience requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 3+ years Experience in web application development.
• 1 year or more ROR experience.
• PHP experience.
• WP development experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of relational databases and SQL, Knowledge developing and debugging on Linux systems.
• Solid basis in object oriented programming.
• HTML and CSS coding experience.
• Experience with a test-driven-development methodology is a plus.
• Commitment to software quality.
• Javascript development experience preferred; AJAX experience a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• High work ethics.
• Solid judgment and decision-making skills; proven ability to make difficult design decisions.
• Problem solving skills.
• Engineering mentality, having no problem in learning any new language quickly.
• Ability to manage your own projects and tasks, and keep several tasks in the air at once
• SEO, web usability a plus.

Employment Type: Full Time. Location: anywhere, you do not have to move to Jordan.

Think you are up to the challenge, send us your CV with answers to the following questions:

• How do you increase your ROR development skills and knowledge?
• If you faced a problem that you do not have solution to, how do you find the solution?
• What is your favorite development platform (client/server) and why?
• What blogs do you follow?
• What was your most difficult development challenge you faced and why?

Send your answers and CV with work samples to jobsATarabcrunchDOTcom email title: ROR/PHP Ninja

#Photo by dexter_mixwith.

When we released ArabCrunch.NET in private beta as the social platform that empowers the Arab tech ecosystem only in English, an Arabic Interface was part of our plans and today it is opening live to anyone to signup.

Now millions of Arabic native entrepreneurs technology professional, geeks, academia students will have access to all the great offerings ArabCrunch offers them:

-Networking within the tech industry, with top notch executives, and with serial entrepreneurs like the cofounder and CEO of the world’s most popular mobile browser Opera, VPs and directors from Jabbar,Yahoo, Google, Microsoft.

- Mentorship opportunities with senior executives and other industry gurus from companies such as Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and from successful Arab, US and international serial entrepreneurs who have been successful in Silicon Valley, Europe and Arabia.

- Asking questions related to Enterpunership on starting a business and getting answers from well advised community that share what they know by answering others questions.

- Networking with other Tech Startup and companies in the region and worldwide, finding and networking with Service Providers, Venture Funds to help with funding, Incubators to help them get office space and other services, Organizations to help them find support services, whether starting and growing a company or increasing the technical skills of an engineer or the tech company’s staff. Lastly, help contribute to and use the open source projects developed by devoted and passionate Arab geeks.

Today ArabCrunch.NET boasts 1833??? members and grows everyday organically. The new social network will be integrated with ArabCrunch global events under ArabCrunchStart initiative which are organized by ArabCrunch and our ambassadors in the USA ( Seattle, NY and Silicon Valley), London, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and other countries around the world soon to join.

ArabCrunch.NET is not only about startups and business; we look at the problems facing the tech industry as an ecosystem. We will be enhancing and offering more features that empower every participant of the ecosystem in new ways never seen before (any feedback is welcomed). Stay tuned.

Under the them, “communications empowerment” the Amandla forum has lineup some of the top-notch minds to train the regions’ communications professionals in the latest trends in the industry. They include renowned brand transformation strategist, Marty Neumeier, author of bestsellers such as BRAND GAP and ZAG and thomas Gensemer, the CEO of blue stat digital, the company that helped organize president Obama’s campaign, as well s many more.

The forum features hands-on practical training sessions and panelists from the top Internet and media companies in the region such Bayt, Yahoo! Middle East, Flip Media and ArabCrunch.

In the press conference today Thomas highlighted how did the online campaign of president Obama made a success in raising 600 million USD: personal touch, old school door to door campaigning.. the internet just scaled it!

PS: Follow us on ArabCrunch for live blogging from the event and some live video streaming.

Here is the full program:

Day 1:

• 8:00
• Registration
• 9:00
• Opening Ceremony & Amandla Surprise
• 10:00
• Plenary Speaker 1-Thomas Gensemer, Online Strategies
• “Mobilizing Online Communities that Drive Meaningful Results”
• 10:45 Plenary Speaker 2-Marty Neumeier,Brand Strategies  &  Innovation ”Are You Zagging Or Lagging?

• 11:30
• Networking Coffee Break              Sunny FM
• 12:00
• Plenary Speaker 3-Bill Orme,  Press and Media Development
• 12:45
• Plenary Speaker 4-Abdel-Rahman Ghandour, Advocacy in the Arab World
• 13:30
• Lunch
• 14:30
• Plenary Speaker 5- Bob Walsh, Public Relations and Advocacy 
                                 ”A Conversation with Bob-Public Relations for Public Diplomacy:
                                  ”Empowering people to Change the World”
• 15:15
• Networking Coffee Break
• 15:30
• Workshops
• Brand Strategies                                                 Marty Neumeier                            
    ”The Zag Workshop”
• Government Communications                          Ed Salazar
    ” Overcoming barriers to communication with Governments ”
• Basic Press and Media (Arabic)                        Abdelhamid Abdeljaber
   ”Effective Communication Strategies”
• 17:30
• End of First Day
• 20:00
• Gala Dinner

Day 2: 6th May

• ime
• 9:00
• Workshops
• Storytelling                                                PennyLegate                                                              
”The Power Of Storytelling”
• Brand Strategy                                         Marty Neumeier
    ”The Zag Workshop”
• Online Strategy                                         Thomas Gensemer & David Nassar
    ”How to Develop an Effective Online Communication Strategy”
• Citizen Journalism and New Media     7iber
• 11:00
• Networking Coffee Break
• 11:30
• Sponsor Speech
• 12:00
• Panel -Communications in the Arab World -Moderator Rania Atalla
• • Ahmed Nassef – MD / VP of Yahoo! Middle East
• Anis Salem – Development Works
• Isam Bayazidi – Ikoo
• Laith Zraikat – Jeeran
• Nadine Toukan – UrdunMubdi3 
• Rabea Ataya – Bayt.com
• Saad Abdul Hadi – Al Nasher PR & Advertising
• Yousef Tuqan – Flip Media
• Zeid Nasser- Media Me
• 13:30
• Lunch
• 14:30
• Plenary 6 - David Nassar,Online Strategy Arab World (Embracing the power of Online Communication in the Arab World)
• 15:15
• Coffee Break
• 15:30
• Workshops
• Press and Media Development-                              Bill Orme
”Transparency vs. Thought Control”
• CSR-”Corporate Social Responsibility                   David Nassar
      in The Internet Age”
• Effective Use of Social Networking (Arabic)         Gaith Saqer/ArabCrunch
• 17:30
• Closing Ceremony

( Disclosure: ArabCrunch is a media partner to the event.)