A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing website YouTube for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world.
An Egyptian judge ordered YouTube to be blocked carrying the film, which he described as “offensive to Islam and the Prophet (Muhammad).” Update: the...


Google shut down few days ago the account of AlFurqan the media wing of the Islamic State of Iraq on Youtube
We contacted google for the mater and their spokesperson the following official statement:
Unfortunately, we cannot comment on individual videos but this account has been terminated due to repeated or severe violations of our Community...
Social media agency social Clinic has published an infographic about social media stats in Saudi Arabia.
It shows that there is 3 million twitter users around 12% of the population growing 3000% with an average 50 million tweet per month, 840,000 linkedin users representing 4% of the population, and 6 million facebook users representing 23% of t...
Google has revealed YouTube most popular videos in the Arab world in the year 2012.
In a Blog post Google says “ 2012 has been a big year for YouTube in MENA. With more than 260 million views every single day”
” This year, Korean Pop music transcended boundaries and took the world by storm. Comedy, Entertainment, Music and People ...
Google has announced on Thursday that it has temporarily restricted access in Libya and Egypt to the movie that insulted the messenger of God Mohammad Peace be upon him. Following the storming of the US embassy in Cairo and the burning of the US consulate in Libya Benghazi. 4 American government employees where killed including the US ambassa...
YouTube, Lenovo, and Space Adventures announced last Thursday the two global winners of YouTube Space Lab (b), the worldwide science competition that challenged 14-18 year-olds to design a science experiment that can be performed in space. Amr Mohamed from Egypt (17-18 year old age group) and Dorothy Chen and Sara Ma from the U.S. (14-16 year old ...
After Launching an Arabic version, YouTube has started offering local version for Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Yemen.
According to Google announcement local version of YoutTube means people who visit the site will see on the homepage the most popular videos in their home country along with those that are rising ...
Syrian authorities have unblocked Facebook and YouTube, a good news for syrian online population who have been using the 2 sites via different ways such as proxy servers or VPS.
This news has been confirmed by several users in Syria and by one of the popular sites in Syria (Syria news) who said that the unblocking comes after a call on Face...
Number 1 video sharing website owned by Google, YouTube now has an Arabic Interface.
The move is some how late for Google to bring an Arabic interface for YouTube, since most of its other services are already has an Arabic UI.
This move means local Arab video sharing startups such as iKbis and D1G which the later is headed by former Yaho...
Following the steps by many politicians from around the world and the region like Obama, Queen Rania, El Baradi or Hamas, "Israeli" Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu has joined Twitter, facebook and Youtube in what it seems a bid to open conversion with Israleis and thew world.
"Social media channels are today vital to Israeli public relatio... 


