Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 February 25

25 February 2007

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Stories from 25 February 2007

Street food from Panama, Mandoo from Korea, and a Hot Pot Video from Shanghai

Written by Melissa De León · Latin America

#1: From Korea: Kimchi Mamas and a recipe to prepare Mandoo, the easy to prepare Korean dumplings! If you've never made mandoo before, it really isn't hard. The dumpling-making is...

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Free Kareem: Egyptian Bloggers Speak Out

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

The sentencing of Egyptian blogger Kareem Nabeel Sulaiman to four years in prison for articles he wrote in his personal blog may have come as a shock to many around...

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Iraq - Life, Death, Rape and Execution

Written by Salam Adil · Middle East & North Africa

Stories of life in Iraq have been so varied this past week. In this post I hope to give a cross section on how life is for Iraqis in a...

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Kuwait: From Novel Ads to the History of Bloggers

Written by Abdullatif AlOmar · Middle East & North Africa

Q from Kuwaitism takes us on a flash back in time to when advertisements in Kuwait were creative and attractive. This time I’ll post an ad for Kuwait Airways that...

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Russia: One Blogger's Dream Come True

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

LJ user bogomolov (Aleksandr Bogomolov, a Russian journalist) shares this story about a dream come true (RUS): An old joke, very good, very clever: Two Soviet violinists are in the...

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Updates from 25 February 2007

Egypt

Egypt has closed a television station, according to Zeinobia. It seems that Egypt at last listened to the American demands and closed the channel after warning(s) and threats, she writes.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Things seem to be getting better for people living with HIV/AIDS in Egypt, writes blogger egYptianist. In addition to free HIV testing and medication, the National AIDS Programme now has support groups where people with AIDS meet and share experiences in different aspects. Support groups are made of 10-15 people each.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Iran

Azarmehr says that Islamic Republic uses British universities as a propaganda platform.He talks about his experience in SOAS :A request was made by an Iranian student at SOAS for a “symposium” about Iranian cinema. Later on an organisation named “Council for the Promotion of Persian Language and Literature” took over the organisation of the event and the “Iranian Cinema Symposium” actually became a pretext for an official celebration of the Islamic Revolution in a British university, organized and sponsored by the Iranian embassy in London.

• Fred Petrossian

Iran

Kamangir has published the cover of a nuclear technology booklet for school children and teachers.In Kamnagir's blog we read:”according to the public relations’ office in the Ministry of Education, the booklet “Belief” includes the history of the nuclear technology in the world and also in Iran. The booklet also addresses “the importance of peaceful nuclear energy” as well as “the gang of countries which [want to exclusively] benefit from it”.”

• Fred Petrossian

Iran

Several people demonstrated in front of a Court building where Mansour Osanloo,bus syndicate leader,was judged yesterday. Demonstrators asked that fired bus drivers back to work. Osanloo and other bus drivers are in trouble because they launched a strike and ask for better work conditions.You can see photos in Revolt68.

• Fred Petrossian

Russia: The RuNet's Top 10 Political Slang Words

In my opinion, the only slang from this list which is falling out of vogue...
I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The...