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Embarrassing gaffs, humiliating moments, there’s nothing like amateur video to make laughter heard round the world. Now you can tap in to what makes the Arab world tick in the file-sharing universe with the Arab language site Ikbis.com. Along the YouTube vein you can find all sorts of photos and videos that, well, we don’t see on YouTube. Like this still from Iraq, this video of a Palestinian ambulance backing into a victim or “this clip, of a giggling man at a prayer sesion, which has nearly 12,000 hits to date. Humor abounds at the site, launched in November, but politics are also common on Ikbis (tagline, “Capture your Life”), with Bush parodies, the Saddam video (now down) and war footage we just don’t see on CNN. Definitely worth clicking through every so often, for the raw footage, and for a new window into funny.

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