Last night, I was privileged to be invited with a distinguished group of bloggers to discuss the subject of blogs in general and how they affect us here in Kuwait. The show is called Diwaniyat Alisboo3 (ديوانية الأسبوع) and it is presented by Dr. Shafiq AlGhabra and airs on KTV. Last night’s episode was recorded to air at a later date, I think a month or two from now.

I knew everyone there personally except Mahmood, who flew in to Kuwait from Bahrain specifically for this show. The rest of the participants were Zaydoun, Shurouq, nibaq, kilama6goog, and a blogger who would rather remain anonymous.

The discussion in my opinion was excellent. It went very smoothly without jumping randomly between the many different subjects that could’ve been discussed, which is probably due to Dr. Shafiq’s ability to handle such a discussion. I only wish we had more time to continue the discussions, which were very enjoyable.

For more details about the episode, you can find a great summary (with some pics) at Mahmood’s blog.

One of the topics briefly discussed was anonymity. We had 7 participants in the discussion, 2 of whom have not been anonymous and have always used their real names, Shurouq Mudhaffar and Mahmood Al-Yousif. The other five were probably not as anonymous as we’d like to believe but we still never openly used our full names, until last night, where we all “came out”. It would be interesting to see how this would change our styles in writing and criticizing anything we want so freely! This applies to Zaydoun, kilama6goog, nibaq, and myself.