Rami Olwan

The Asian Law Institute (ASLI) and the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University, Malaysia are holding the 7th Annual ASLI conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 25th and 26th May 2010.

On 19 October 2009, the Higher Council for Science and Technology in collaboration with the US Patenting and Trademark Office (USPTO) will organize  a two-day conference in Amman, Jordan to present and discuss approaches to Technology Transfer and show how these activities contribute to economic development.

A preview of Facebook's new stripped-down version of its popular social networking website is now available to the Middle East users and is known as Facebook Lite. Most of the settings on Facebook Lite are still inaccessible.

2009 has been a big year for Twitter with the micro-blogging platform’s rate of growth rocketing up to more than 20% per month and now showing annual growth of 1,460 percent (June 2008 to June 2009) according to Comscore.