Arabic Language Matters

Today's The Guardian has a link to a neat website Mideast Wire, a new online translation service which provides the west with an English-language digest of the Arabic press.

Mideast Wire was started by four journalists associated with the Daily Star in Beirut; two Americans, Nicholas Noe and Seth Walls, and two Lebanese, Majdoline Hatoum and Maha al-Azar.

That's really interesting despite the fact that the site is not free, since a subscription is needed to access its content.