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15 November 2005

Daily archive · 5 posts

Stories from 15 November 2005

Iranian Blogs: Association of Moslem Bloggers, 20 million dollary Revloutionary Guard and Solidarity with Feminist Tribune

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

A new association for Iranian bloggers came into existence: Association of Moslem Bloggers ( Link in Persian). Before this new association, a few other ones have become active such as...

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On the Menu: Food Blogs from Southeast Asia!

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro · East Asia

Take one former graphic designer, a retired corporate banking and management consultant, a civil servant, a teacher, an amateur photographer, an academic and a freelance journalist. Add generous dollops of blogging software, several digital cameras, enthusiastic assistants/partners and web-hosting accounts (there are no substitutes for these ingredients). Stir them together and you get some of the best writing about Southeast Asian food this side of printed page.

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Voices From Zimbabwe Plus

Written by Zimpundit · Sub-Saharan Africa

Zimbabwe:This is Zimbabwe in Surviving Zimbabwean Democracy presents a summary of the major arguments for and against the MDC's participation in the senate elections which a are now under two...

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Preventing another African war – Blog reviews on the Ethiopian-Eritrean dispute

Written by Chippla Vandu · Sub-Saharan Africa

As seven African leaders met in the Nigerian capital of Abuja over the weekend to discuss ways of moving their continent forward, Ethiopia and Eritrea had troops amassed on their...

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Man, she's a man?

Written by Mack Zulkifli · East Asia

Malaysians are pondering same gender marriages. Blogger SK sympathised for the bride, who had undergone a sex change, having been born a male 30 years ago. Her marriage to an...

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Updates from 15 November 2005

Puerto Rico (U.S.)

Gil Schmidt digs into the U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract of the United States 2004-2005 and finds some “sobering statistics” related to how Puerto Rico compares to other U.S. territories like Guam and the Virgin Islands.

• David Sasaki

Jordan

Rami Abdelrahman wonders, after Amman was bombed, that did not only show how vulnerable we are, but also how we need to get many things straight. Why do we stick our noses in our neighbours businesses? why do we have to take millions from the US, and probably as much from other countries to keep doing that, while it doesn't reflect anything on the average Jordanian's life? Was it only for the people not to say anything regards their opinion about our “foreign policy”? Why do we have to take fight for “moderate” islam against those fanatics who bombed our capital? What about poverty, corruption, underdevelopment in rural, civil and badia areas? How can you be interdependent if you are dependent?

• Haitham Sabbah

Israel

Akiva says: “For the past 2 weeks, a woman in the U.S. has been trying to pin down rumors that the government of Israel is selling off parts of Mount Zion, specifically the area of David HaMelek's (King David's) tomb and the location of the Diaspora Yeshiva (Jewish religious school) in Jerusalem to the Vatican. Vatican Press says it's happening, Israeli government spokespersons alternately say no, yes, maybe, never, could be, and “we can do whatever we want without telling anyone“…

• Haitham Sabbah

Iraq

Omar says: “Math wasn’t my favorite class in school but I do remember one thing for sure that is inorder to solve any equation it has to contain a number of variables and constants and the values of the constants will help find those of the variables leading to the final solution. Elections in Iraq can be considered an equation and the above applies to it more or less.“

• Haitham Sabbah

Algeria

Nouri bin Ziri writes about Algeria's relationship with pan-Africanism and pan-Arabism and Third Worldism and how it's been snubbing pan-Africanism and playing up Arabism lately.

• Haitham Sabbah

Nigeria

Grandiose Parlour sees the “handiwork of the Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo in the recent attempt of some African head of states to form a closer political union”. However he feels the “actors are mediocre and the timing is off”.

• Sokari Ekine

Zimbabwe

Sokwanele - This is Zimbabwe has an action alert in respect of the ” arbitrary detention of Mrs. Netsai Mushonga the Coordinator of the Women’s Coalition, an umbrella body of women’s rights groups in Zimbabwe.”

• Sokari Ekine

Kenya

Kenyan Pundit asks “Can someone please tell me why “lobbying” and “campaign finance” and “fraud” are always the words used to describe instances of corruption/bribery when it occurs in the United States and elsewhere in the West?“

• Sokari Ekine

D.R. of Congo

Coalition for Darfur is reporting on the possibility of a catastrophic health crisis looming in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

• Sokari Ekine

Updates

Ethan Zuckerman is also on his way to WSIS in Tunis to run Global Voices workshop on “Expression under Repression. “ He like many others has a number of concerns on WSIS. “I’m attending despite deep misgivings over the usefulness of the gathering, the absurd cost of the meeting, and the fact that it’s being held within a deeply repressive country with a history of detaining people who use the Internet to exercise their right to free speech.”

• Sokari Ekine