Ce blog est censuré en Arabie Saoudite, l’accés est bloqué depuis 2006 en Arabie saoudite selon l’auteur ! Ce blog est censuré pas pour son sens engagé mais pour la cruauté du langage, surtout le sens décalé de son auteur. Je vais pas parler de liberté d’expression car j’apporterais rien tant que les choses sont comme ils sont chez les Wahabites et c’est pas trop un blog qui doit être la première nécessite la bas. Le constat n’a rien de si surprenant je vous l’accorde. Il ne s’agit pas là d’un blog qui traite de l’actualité ou de la politique dans le pays des milles rois ; mais c’est juste un blog alimenté par une fille âgée de 252 ans!
les textes sont d’une cruauté surprenante, l’usage des mots et expressions sont limite provocatrice, il faut la lire pour s’en rendre compte et ainsi se faire une idée. l’auteur du blog s’alimente d’une imagination fortement écurée de la société saoudienne. les billets sont courts et d’une poignante portée philosophique. De la politique pas trop évidente dans les billets, de la provocation ; de la critique acerbes des textes religieux je pense est l’une des causes de cette censure !! Venir a prendre l’audace, par une femme ; de discuter les décisions et préceptes de dieu est déjà exercice pas facile.
Je me suis vite attaché avec ce blog, c’est l’un des rares blogs arabes avec lesquels tu te pose chaque matin cette question : Est ce que le blog a été mis a jour ou pas ? Les billets sont court, les écrits sont d’une finisse jamais égalée ailleurs et surtout d’une captivante Saudi Eve bien au delà des clichés véhiculés par les médias et surtout voulu par le pourvoir en place !!! Bonne lecture tout le monde, que vous soyez d’accord où pas avec elle ; lisez au moins pour se faire une idée. Chaque billet est disponible en arabe et bien sûr dans sa version anglaise, c’est une façon de faire passer le message a l’internationale et c’est bien réussi.
In Arabic
لدي حلم يقظة متكرر..
امشي في شارع سعودي, مرتدية عباءة. كل شكل من اشكال المضايقات التي قد تعرضت لها في شارع سعودي (التحديق و المراقبة, التخويف الديني,الدعوات الجنسية الفاضحة…الخ) تتحول بشكل رمزي لإنسان يسحب طرف عبائتي بقوة تختلف بحجم المضايقة. بيدي سلاح شعاعي مستقبلي, اطلق عليهم, فيتبخرون.. يكبر حجمي مع كل طلقة اطلقها, كما ينقطع الجزء المصاب من العباءة.. بعد عدة طلقات اكون قد اصبحت طويلة جداً (بطول منزل من طابقين) و شبه عارية, لم يتبقى من العباءة الا قطعتان تشبهان ما ترتديه الراقصة الشرقية, لكن بلون اسود. مع ذلك فلا احد يقرب مني الآن, لأنهم يخافون.
بعد ذلك, اكمل مشيي في الشوارع السعودية.. انثى, بلا مضايقات.
In English
I have a persisting daydream..
I walk a Saudi street.. I’m wearing a abaya.. every type of harassment I’ve ever been subjugated to on a Saudi street (staring, terrifying religious advice, explicit sexual advances..etc.) are instead represented by one action: people pulling on my abaya, one after the other, force depends on how severe the harassment is..
I carry this futuristic beam weapon, I shoot them, they evaporize.
I become larger with each hit I make.. and the abaya gets torn a bit each time.. after a couple of hits, I’m very large (tall as a two story house) and almost naked, I’m left with a two piece ensemble that looks like a belly dancers’ costume but black.. yet no one comes near me now.. they are afraid..
after that, I just walk the streets of Saudi.. feminine, and
Agharass
on mai 14th, 2009
@ 12:21:
NB : J’ai fait le choix du billet des moins provocateur !! Car sinon je me ferais lyncher :p
Hamza505
on mai 14th, 2009
@ 17:18:
C’est du limite limite .
too banal
on mai 14th, 2009
@ 18:05:
Pas mal de choses dans ce pays laissent vraiment à désirer…
C’est pas demain l’éveil!
Lordy
on mai 15th, 2009
@ 17:16:
Le texto en arabe est bien fait ^^
Anonyme
on mai 16th, 2009
@ 17:58:
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – In this country where women are forced to completely cover themselves in public, are barred from driving, and need permission to travel abroad, it’s small wonder many are embracing the freedom of anonymity on the Internet.
« I love blogging because it helps me to express myself and I like to write in English, » says Farah Aziz, a translation student at King Saud University in Riyadh who started blogging in January 2005.
The content of Ms. Aziz’s blog (http://farahssowaleef.blogspot.com), which chronicles the life of a college student, would probably do little to cause alarm among government censors. But other women bloggers are drawing the attention of the state as conservative male bloggers have taken to policing the Internet for bloggers acting in ways that they perceive as inappropriate according to Islam.
Saudi Eve, who regularly writes about her love life and religion, and who declined to be identified by her real name because of the sensitivity of the issue, woke up on June 2 to find that her blog (http://eveksa.blogspot.com) had been blocked.
« Back and blocked, » she wrote on her blog on June 2. « I’m temporarily back in Saudi only to find that ‘Saudi Eve is officially blocked in Saudi.’ »
The closure of her site signals the beginning of a cyber battle between liberal Saudi bloggers and their more conservative counterparts.
Blogging under the name Green Tea (http://www.g-tea.com/), Riyadh law student Mohammed al-Mossaed recently formed a conservative group of Saudi bloggers called the Official Community of Saudi Arabian Bloggers (OCSAB). « I am not responsible for the blocking of any website, » says Mr. Mossaed. « OCSAB also has nothing to do with it. Maybe [Saudi Eve] broke [the state's] rules by sometimes talking about God and sex. »
Response and sympathy from fellow bloggers was swift, with many urging the Kingdom’s Internet watchdog, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), to unblock the site.
Deeply conservative, Saudi Arabia is among the most restrictive countries in regard to Internet access in the world, with most traffic going through a central hub at KACST in Riyadh. The biggest number of blocked sites are pornographic sites, followed by sites that discuss drugs, religion, and terrorism. But KACST itself admits that it sometimes blocks benign sites by mistake.
« The blacklist we use is a combination of an international commercial blacklist and a local blacklist, » says Mishaal Al-Kadhi, the head of KACST’s Internet Service Unit, in a phone interview from Riyadh. « Ninety-five percent of blocked sites are pornographic. But we do make mistakes sometimes and urge people to e-mail us with their unblock requests. »
Saudi Eve, who is in her late 20s, single, and often travels abroad on business, says she was singled out for being female and for daring to write about her love life and God in the same post.
« My blog wasn’t blocked because I wrote about romantic escapades, for as you know there are so many blogs on the Internet – both Saudi and non-Saudi – that write/blog about ‘romantic escapades’, among other Saudi taboos, which aren’t being blocked in Saudi, » she said in an e-mail exchange.
« In my opinion, my blog was singled out and blocked because I – a Saudi female – wrote about romantic escapades in Arabic, plus I committed the ‘ultimate sin’ by mentioning the name of God in those posts, » she explained. « To a Saudi male, romance is only allowed if written in English or by a male. It definitely isn’t tolerated if it’s written by a Saudi female, let alone in Arabic. »
Saudi Eve is not the only blogger to feel the wrath of conservative bloggers. Aziz, too, has had her run-ins with OCSAB and Green Tea, saying that they have threatened her in comments left on her site.
« First, they say that a blog cannot disrespect Islam in any way in order for it to be included in OCSAB, » says Aziz. « Second, they say that they don’t accept blogs that are personal diaries, which is ridiculous as most blogs are just that. »
Yet Aziz admitted that OSCAB’s aim to spread the culture of blogging among Saudis was working, though perhaps not to her liking.
One female blogger (http://www.classic-diva.blogspot.com/) said that she was stopped from using the Internet at home for several months after her conservative brothers grew suspicious about why she was spending so much time online.
« I’ve been blogging since April 2005. It’s a way to vent my frustrations and to write, » said Jo, who asked only that her first name be used. « My family knows that I have a site, but they don’t have a concept of what blogging is. »
Jo was forced to sneak out of her house to use the Internet at the house of friends or at a local Starbucks, and still has limited access to the Internet at home. She says that the blocking of Saudi Eve signals a battle that has already started between liberal and conservative bloggers in the Kingdom.
« We have this clash going on between us liberals and the conservatives in the blogosphere. I think that OCSAB is trying to scare us, » says Jo.
For her part, Saudi Eve has not decided yet whether she will start a new blog to overcome being blocked in Saudi, or whether she will send KACST a request to unblock her site.
« I haven’t decided yet whether to react to this block or just to ignore it. There are readers in the rest of the world, you know! » she said in an e-mail shortly before leaving the kingdom on yet another business trip abroad.
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* Rasheed Abou-Alsamh is a Saudi-American blogger and journalist based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This article is distributed by the Common Ground News Service (CGNews) and can be accessed at http://www.commongroundnews.org.
Source: Christian Science Monitor, June 19, 2006
Visit the website at http://www.csmonitor.com
Doudou
on mai 19th, 2009
@ 20:29:
Aghrass, as-tu l’intention de te lancer dans le débat politique???
une marocaine
on mai 24th, 2009
@ 15:22:
Ca me rappelle « banate Riyad ».
Allah yekone f’3awenhom
KeHoeff
on mai 29th, 2009
@ 2:14:
hey this is a very interesting article!
Siham La Marocaine
on mai 29th, 2009
@ 18:23:
Que dieu preserve eve in ksa.