Global Voices Online

This week, two of the most prestigious French literary prizes were awarded to two French-speaking authors of African descent: The French-speaking Caribbean blogosphere has been buzzing over this double satisfaction, in this post from Haiti, this one from Guadeloupe and this one from Martinique [Fr].

Foreign Policy Association's Russia blog writes about the results of a Pew Research Center's poll on poverty, wealth and attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe “20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.”

the POLSKI blog reports that “Basia, whose voice is familiar to anyone who in the early 1980s danced to Whose Side Are You On?, is back with a new album.”

Leopolis celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Thoughts on schooling in Poland vs schooling in the UK - at 20 east.

Another open letter to Noam Chomsky and Amnesty International - at Americans For Bosnia, Greater Surbiton, and Srebrenica Genocide Blog.

A Syrian Foodie in London gives us a Halloween special with a Syrian twist to it, Tahini Pumpkin.

Samaha posts Ed Vulliamy's open letter to Amnesty International regarding the invitation to Professor Noam Chomsky to lecture in Northern Ireland - as well as background info on the campaign.

Sarah Hay blogs about the French lessons she gives to a group of young Afghan asylum seekers in a park in Paris. “They’re incredibly keen that I learn the Pashto for everything I teach them to the point of comical mishap, for example when I taught them the word metro…”