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How to create a regex for parsing Arabic Dates

I'm working on a program that is running a series of regexs to attempt to find a date within the DOM from a webpage. For example, in www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/windows-phone-7-in-depth-preview/, I would match "Jul 19th 2010" with my regex. Things were going fine in multiple formats and languages until I hit an arabic webpage. As an example, consider http://islammaktoob.maktoobblog.com/ The date July 18, 2010 appears in Arabic at the top of the post, but I can't figure out how to match it. Does anyone have any experience on matching Arabic dates? If someone could post an example or the regex they would use to match that Arabic date, it would be very helpful. Thank you!

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 2010-07-21 16:32:32

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