Global Voices Online

Egyptian Ibn Al Dunya, who writes at Fustat, praises a new Global Voices Online project - Threatened Voices, which tracks the suppression of online free speech.

Max Strasser, a journalist living in Cairo, wrote his thoughts on government plans to sync the call to prayer in every Cairo mosque to a radio broadcast.

Wandering Scarab does not believe that Egyptian women know what they really want; their actions demonstrate that they don't really want equality or freedom; they do not even know what freedom is; they want to be free within cages of their own creation. They love being Damsels in Distress.

Political forces in Egypt are rallying against succession. Zeinobia writes about how politicians are campaigning against President Hosni Mubarak passing on the torch to his son Gamal. Dalia Ziada has more here.

Blogging from Egypt, Maryanne Stroud Gabbani reports: “A young friend of my daughter's recently sent me a link to a
webpage started by one of her friends to encourage carpooling in Egypt.
Cairo reputedly has 20 million inhabitants and I'm willing to bet about
10 million cars.”

After seeing pictures of Cameroon's first lady, Egyptian Zeinobia remarks: “I do not how much money she spent on her hair and her looks but I know the people of Cameroon need this money more.”

Egyptian group blog Bikaya Masr discusses Coptic history, language and education — or their lack of — in this post.

Wael Nawara, from Egypt, offers his take on Obama's Nobel Prize for Peace here.

Group blog Bikya Masr reported: Prominent Egyptian female religious leader Soad Saleh has called on the country ministry of justice to amend its current marriage certificate regulations where women must write “virgin” or “divorced” or “widow” – the latter two considered one category. She said that the ministry should allow a third option to be written on the license that reads “never been married” as a means of protecting the honor of women who have been raped.