A report by KUNA reveals that the number of Facebook users in Kuwait exceeded 822,000 by the end of June. This number represents about 5% of the total number of Facebook users in Arab countries, which are a total 16.1 million users, and place Kuwait in third position in terms of social media population.

The report is posted on the Internet World Stats website which also cites that Saudi Arabia has the highest number of users of social networking among GCC countries (four million users), followed by the United Arab Emirates (around 2.3 million users), followed by Kuwait.

Fortune has launched a local edition in UAE and Kuwait, it was announced by Jim Jacovides of Time Inc. and Bashar Kiwan of AWI company. These are the first two markets where Fortune Arabia will be launched, followed by an additional five local editions scheduled for release in 2012 that will cover the GCC and Levant.

Fortune has launched a local edition in UAE and Kuwait, it was announced by Jim Jacovides of Time Inc. and Bashar Kiwan of AWI company. These are the first two markets where Fortune Arabia will be launched, followed by an additional five local editions scheduled for release in 2012 that will cover the GCC and Levant.

According to AFP, a group of sixty Kuwaiti writers and journalists have urged their government to reopen Al Jazeera news channel’s office that has been closed for over two months now, following the withdrawal of its reporters’ accreditations over the coverage of a police crackdown on a public gathering. The Al Jazeera office was previously closed for three years from November 2002, reopening only after a visit by Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.