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16 April 2007

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Stories from 16 April 2007

Arabeyes: Egyptian Blogger Abdul Monem Mahmood Arrested

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Egyptian blogger Abdul Monem Mahmood (Arabic) is the latest in a string of bloggers arrested by Egyptian authorities. He is being detained under custody for 15 days as charges are...

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Bangladesh: Celebrating Bangla New Year 1414

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

Shuvo Bangla Noboborsho (Happy Bengali New Year) to everyone. April 14th was the first day of the Bangla year 1414 also known as Pohela Baishakh. In Bangladesh, this day is a national holiday and in West Bengal it is a public holiday. Now Bangladeshi bloggers will take us through the history, culture and celebrations of this event.

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Arabeyes: Bahraini Blogger in Court Tomorrow

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

This is Mahmood Al Yousif, the God Father of Bahraini bloggers, who is being sued by a Bahraini Minister for comments he published online. Mediations between the two parties failed,...

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Zimbabwe: Stock market gains, a peaceful prayer meeting, and economic opportunism

Written by Zimpundit · Sub-Saharan Africa

As the poor get poorer, the rich are only going to get richer in Zimbabwe. In this post, Mugabe Makaipa describes how Zimbabwe's stock market has grown 12,000% over last...

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Touring Libyan Blogs: Bloggers on Spring Break!

Written by Fozia Mohamed · Middle East & North Africa

I am not sure, but I have the general feeling that the Libyan blogosphere has been a little quiet lately, except for the usual couple of blogs who regularly update....

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10 Years of Blogs: Do they carry weight in Ecuador's mainstream media?

Written by David Sasaki · Latin America

But how much influence on traditional media in Ecuador have blogs had in the past or do they have now? Do they carry weight? Here at the Cobertura Digital we’ve assembled a sampling of what bloggers are thinking…

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Japan: Number 1 Language of Bloggers Worldwide

Written by Chris Salzberg · East Asia

It will likely come as quite a surprise to the English-speaking world that the number one language of bloggers worldwide, in terms of number of posts, is not the “language...

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Syrian Blogsphere on Pelosi, Liz Cheyney, Parliamentary Elections, and Nargileh

Written by Yazan Badran · Middle East & North Africa, North America

In the last couple of weeks very important developments have taken place on the Syrian political arena. One was the controversial visit of the US speaker of parliament Nancy Pelosi...

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Introducing the Qatari Blogosphere

Written by Mohamed Nanabhay · Middle East & North Africa

“A little country with big heart” is how camper described the tiny (but rich) State of Qatar on its last independence day. While that's a nice quaint description, many in...

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Updates from 16 April 2007

Poland

“… Splitting tendency has been evident in Polish politics ever since the fall of communism. It even happened to the Beer Drinkers Party,” the beatroot reports.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Ukraine

Wu Wei resumes writing about her father's life: “No wonder his nationality was not so clear. And no wonder he could apparently speak Polish, Romanian, Hungarian and Ukrainian when he arrived in Brussels.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Iran

According to Eteraz[Fa], 15 students were arrested by security forces in a university in Mazandarn province in the northern part of country.According to the blogger a few days ago,Bijan Sabagh, a member of Islamic Association of university,was arrested and many students started to protest against this act.Some even started hunger strike.

• Fred Petrossian

Latvia

April 16 in history - at De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis: a failed attempt to kill the Russian emperor in 1866; the first Russian trade union is created in 1905; the museum of the red Latvian riflemen opened in Riga in 1970.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Two roundups of coverage of this weekend's opposition rallies in Russia - at Scraps of Moscow, here and here.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Armenia

Onnik Krikorian reports from the Armenian parliamentary election campaign trail with on a Heritage party event.

• Nathan Hamm

India

My Mylapore on a little history trip with notes on Palathope, the lawyers' enclave. “What circumstances caused generations of legal eagles to ‘graduate' from Palathope? Their ‘graduation' into the world of litigation and trial linked surprisingly, more definitively to this sleepy, little lane, rather than to any academic institution of law. Was a societal creation like a ‘neighborhood' solely determining the choice of profession amongst multiple generations of residents or were there more complex factors at play?”

• Neha Viswanathan