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May 12th, 2008

Middle East & North Africa

Rahgozarnameh says [Fa] that 32 stories and poets form Iranian literature/poetic blogs have been published in a book.

Middle East & North Africa

Sagdoni writes [Fa] that “people in Iran are very hopeless and the books such as “succes in 10 minutes” has become very popular.”

Americas , Middle East & North Africa

Homeyra writes that a solo exhibition by the Iran-based American artist Kristen Alvanson, will be held in Tehran on Friday, May 23. Her new work includes nomadic fabric chador (Persian veil) sculptures.

Middle East & North Africa

Thanks to Pars Arts we can watch Arsham Parsi, founder of Iranian Queer Organization, talking about gay life in Iran.

Middle East & North Africa

Bahrain ranked eighth in the Top 10 Sin Cities worldwide, according to blogger Mahmood Al Yousif.

May 11th, 2008

Middle East & North Africa

According to anasonline blog, access to Wikipedia Arabic, the Arabic language version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is now blocked by all ISPs in Syria.

East Asia

UNDAC has issued an urgent appeal for uplift equipment, warehousing facilities and transportation for the relief efforts in Myanmar.

Oceania

Failedparadise carries a round-up of Fijian blogosphere with links to notable posts from the last two weeks.

Sub-Saharan Africa

“Two important events from the DRC - The one month campaign against sexual violence in the DRC took place between March 17-April 17th and coincided with a new law to ending the crimininalisation of children by accusing them of witchcraft,” writes Black Looks.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Uganda Imsoniac attended the Amakula Kampala Film Festival in Uganda: “Every personality documentary film should make you feel comfortable and engage you. The director should make you love or loathe the character – it doesn’t really matter what – and you should just feel justified to do so and comfortable with your decision. In the case of Retour à Gorée (2007) which was shown at the Amakula Kampala Film Festival yesterday, the director Pierre-Yves Borgeaud hit all the right notes.”