Middle East Most Visited Websites During 2010

Here are Middle East's most visited websites:

1. Yahoo! Maktoob – previously Maktoob.com Founded in 1998 by Samih Toukan and Hussam Khoury in Jordan was the first Arabic email service in the world. Now part of Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo acquired Maktoob on the 25th Aug 2009).
   
   
   Maktoob is a news and email portal in addition to it being the region’s largest network of forums, as the majority of it’s content is in the Arabic language.
2. Kooora.com Founded in 2002, By Khaled Al Dosri in Bahrain. Kooora (slang Arabic for ball) is the largest network of Arabic forums that discuss/provide football news in the world. Kooora also provides an English version under Goalzz.com.
3. Fatakat.com started as a family project in Cairo back in 1997. Fatakat is an Arabic network targeting Arab women that hosts sections on Cooking, Marriage, Gaming, Video, Photos while almost 80% of its traffic is generated by its forums alone.
4. Traidnt.net Founded in 2004 by Khalid Al Qahtni in Saudi Arabia. Traidnt is a network of Arabic forums that is specialized in technical information and tutorials related to web development, design, and forum hosting.
   
   
   Traidnt is also a web development and hosting shop based in Saudi many regional forums currently use.
5. Myegy.com Founded in 2005 by an anonymous web developer who goes simply by Khaled M. in Cairo Egypt.
   
   Myegy is the region’s largest website for downloading infringed copyrighted media in both English and Arabic.
6. Aljazeera.net is the home of the region’s leading news network Al Jazeera founded 1996 in Qatar. Providing news in both English and Arabic languages, Al Jazeera is one of the only leading portals that generate the bulk of their own content.
7. Masrawy.com Founded in 1999 by Nancy Bassiouny and Gamal Selim now owned by LINKonLINE (a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom Holding). It hosts a variety of news content and videos channel. Plus it includes services as Classifieds, Food Delivery, Mail, Hosting, and Games.
8. Youm7.com Founded during 2007, by Egyptian Company for Journalism and Advertising, it is an electronic journal; The Editor-in-Chief is Khaled Saleh.
9. Yallakora.com Founded in 2002, By LINKonLINE (a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom Holding). YallaKora is portal providing everything and anything related to Football in Arabic and English with a focus on regional football coverage and multimedia.
10. Jeeran.com Founded in 2000 by Omar Koudsi and Laith Zraikat, Jordan. The website is one of the region’s leading Arabic Blogging, Musical and Social Networking platforms.

Source : thenextweb.com