Global Voices Online

Bahrain-based blogger Bint Battuta attended a kite demonstration , at a time when she is actually feeling like there a kite in her heart.
“I feel like I have a kite flying inside me right now! Yesterday was my last day at work – in full-time work, that is, as I have decided to go back to freelancing. The job I was doing wasn't particularly hard, but I found much of it boring and frustrating because there was a lot of administration and bureaucracy,” she writes.

Recent Links also in Middle East & North Africa

Kuwaiti ZDistrict visits Bahrain and shares his experience here.

My Marrakesh shares this “tasty little tale” from Marrakech, in Morocco.

Egyptian blog Justice for All [Ar] asks: “Where are the intellectuals in Algeria when the nation wakes up..on curses? This is another reading to the question: Why do they hate us?”