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What the Arab World Was Talking About February 9 - 14, 2013

The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5 for February 9 - 14, 2013

POLITICS: Egyptian Presidential advisor Bassam Zarqa resigns (13,086)
RELIGION: Amr Khaled offers fans optimism: (8,648)
MEDIA: Second season of Saudi stand-up comedy ‘Broadcast Show’ opens on YouTube (6,768)
ART: Disclosure of Lebanese vocalist Haifa Wahbe’s age starts family feud (3,587)
SOCIETY: Senior Saudi health officials fired over HIV-contaminated blood transfusion in hospital (3,529)

This weekly report highlights the five topics that generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media during the Sunday-Thursday Arab world work week. The report is derived from crawling the web and indexing hundreds of thousands of Arabic-language, user-generated results. Visit the SocialEyez blog for the entire report.

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What the Arab World Was Talking About February 2 - 7, 2013

The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5 for February 2 - 7, 2013

1. EGYPT: Cameras capture riot police stripping, beating protester (83, 551) (Politics)
2. SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi's longest serving prisoner executed (29,925) (Society)
3. ARAB WORLD: Shakira posts picture of baby Milan (24,719) (Art)
4. TUNISIA: Opposition activist slain (10,820) (Politics)
5. EGYPT: Thousands rally on Friday of Salvation (10,079) (Politics)

This weekly report highlights the five topics that generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media during the Sunday-Thursday Arab world work week. The report is derived from crawling the web and indexing hundreds of thousands of Arabic-language, user-generated results. Visit the SocialEyez blog for the entire report.

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What the Arab World Was Talking About: January 27 - 31, 2013

The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5 for January 27 - 31, 2013

1.       (SPORTS) El Classico game between Real Madrid, Barcelona attracts Arab attention. Volume: 50,034.
2.       (POLITICS) Egyptian court sentences 21 to death in Port Said football violence. Volume: 32,870
3.       (RELIGION) Muslims mark the Birthday of Prophet Mohammad. Volume: 7,516
4.       (SOCIETY) Saudi preacher al-Kalbani disparages civil defense corps. Volume: 4,975
5.       (MEDIA) New episode of Saudi show ‘From-To’ attracts viewers. Volume: 1,014

This weekly report highlights the five topics that generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media during the Sunday-Thursday Arab world work week. The report is derived from crawling the web and indexing hundreds of thousands of Arabic-language, user-generated results. Visit the SocialEyez blog for the entire report.

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What the Arab World Was Talking About, Jan 20 - 23, 2013

The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5 for January 20 - 23, 2013

1. UAE beats Iraq to emerge as Gulf Cup Champions
2. Algeria military ends gas complex operations
3. Series finale of Saudi comedy ‘Broadcast Show’ attracts media attention
4. Egypt’s mobile phone services increase by 15%
5. Egyptian comedian Waheed Seif dies

This weekly report highlights the five topics that generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media during the Sunday-Thursday Arab world work week. The report is derived from crawling the web and indexing hundreds of thousands of Arabic-language, user-generated results. Visit the SocialEyez blog for the entire report. ###

What the Arab World Was Talking About, Jan 13 - 17, 2013

The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5 for January 13 -17, 2013

1. Saudi preacher praises Egypt in Friday sermon in Cairo Mosque
2. Algeria, South Africa tie in football
3. Kuwait opposition hold ‘Karamet Watan 6’ rally to dissolve parliament
4. New episode of Saudi series ‘On the Run’ stirs up debate
5. Egypt train crash kills 19, wounds 107

This weekly report highlights the five topics that generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media during the Sunday-Thursday Arab world work week. The report is derived from crawling the web and indexing hundreds of thousands of Arabic-language, user-generated results. Visit the SocialEyez blog for the entire report.

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What the Arab World Was Talking About, Jan 6 - 10, 2013

The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5 for January 6 -10, 2013

1. Sherif Ismail wins first season of Voice of Hayat
2. Assad offers peace plan in an address to the nation
3. Gulf Football Cup kicks off in Bahrain
4. Amr Khaled: ‘Generous people care for others’
5. Rainfall floods Alexandria’s streets

This weekly report highlights the five topics that generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media during the Sunday-Thursday Arab world work week. The report is derived from crawling the web and indexing hundreds of thousands of Arabic-language, user-generated results. Visit the SocialEyez blog for more information, or download the Top 5 Jan 6-10 report.

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Here's What the Arab World Was Talking About Last Week

The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5 -- December 30, 2012 - January 3, 2013

We are pleased to begin a new feature this week, The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5, brought to you by SocialEyez. (Both SocialEyez and KDPaine & Partners are part of News Group International.) The Weekly Top 5 report highlights the five subjects which have generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media platforms. Here they are for last week:

1. Egypt’s Morsi optimistic about economy despite Central Bank warning.

2. Saudi preacher criticizes Sheikh Mohamed Al-Arifi over anti-MBC3 campaign.

3. Talent show Voice of Hayat turns semifinals episode into a ‘Best of’ episode.

4. Egyptian Preacher Amr Khaled advises his audience: ‘Be yourself, don’t imitate others’.

5. Egypt beats  Qatar 2-0 in football.

See the entire report on the SocialEyez blog.

From the report:

Methodology The results above are extracted from thousands of social media sources such as blogs, microblogs, forums, message boards, readers' comment sections on news websites, etc, which are continually updated. A team of Arabic social media researchers and Arabic social media analysts use Arabic Natural Language Processing and data mining tools to analyze the data and to extract the list of top five subjects, based primarily on keyword repetition.

The Weekly Top 5 displays results of the common Sunday-Thursday work week in the Arab world, and is solely focused on Arabic language user-generated results, classified by volume of comments/discussion.

Data is captured primarily from 17 Arab countries in North Africa, the Levant, and the Arab Gulf region, and when relevant, the five other Arabic speaking countries belonging to the Arab League (Sudan, Somalia, Comoros, Djibouti and Mauritania).

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What Latin America and the Mid-East Think of the U.S. Elections, as Revealed by Social Media

النتائج الأولية بدأت تظهر.. يارب كريم انصر أوباما..

"Announcement of the initial results has begun. Oh God, please let Obama win!" --a tweet from Battal Algoos

by Katie Delahaye Paine

Regardless of how you might feel about the presence or absence of “fair and balanced” reporting in the traditional media, its role is one of reporting election results in a factual manner. Not so social media; as the unvarnished voice of the people, it reveals the personal opinions that distinguish one voter from the next.

Social Media Reveals How "Innocence of Muslims" Unleashed Decades of Resentment Toward the U.S.

SocialEyez analyses Arab world social media on "Innocence of Muslims"

(This article is abbreviated from a report produced by SocialEyez as part of their Buzz Report series. Download the entire original report here.)

On Tuesday, September 11, images like the one to the left burst into the global news cycle as demonstrators turned out en masse to condemn "Innocence of Muslims," an obscure film production that crudely and hatefully depicts the life of the Prophet Mohammed. Demonstrators attacked American Embassies in Cairo, Libya, and Yemen. Hundreds were injured and dozens killed in protests throughout the Mid-East and in other predominantly Muslim countries, such as Pakistan and Indonesia. 

This Buzz Report examines the Arab world’s social media reaction to the film. The following analysis is based on 145,436 mentions of the film and the events that ensued, captured from Arabic language social media during the period September 11-21, 2012.

Hurricane Sandy as Seen Through Middle East Social Media

Here's Hurricane Sandy as it was discussed by social media in the Middle East, thanks to SocialEyez. The analysis is based on 21,152 mentions captured in both English and Arabic during the period October 30 to November 2, 2012.

Tres Cuartos and GlobalNews® (SocialEyez) Win Two 2012 Eikon Prizes

Buenos Aires-- On August 30th the Eikon awards winners for excellence in institutional communication were announced. GLOBALNEWS GROUP (SocialEyez) and TRES CUARTOS COMUNICACIÓN were selected among 188 case studies by an honorable jury of experts in communication.  

“We are very proud of these awards which are our 4th and 5th Eikon prizes. We want to thank the jury for the recognition of our work in political and business communication”, said Eduardo Reina, TRES CUARTOS COMUNICACIÓN CEO.