Global Voices Online

Algerian blogger Nouri gives us a lesson in history , with an interesting insight about the Ghassanid and Lakhmid Arab kingdoms/vassal states that once existed between the Byzantine and Sassanian empires in the years AD prior to Islam (for a school project). The project also studies the relations between Arabs and the surrounding Superpowers in the pre-Islamic and early Islamic eras.

Recent Links also in Middle East & North Africa

samuraisam, from the UAE Community Blog, asks: “Has anyone else found the Israeli TLD to be unblocked from the UAE? On my Etisalat connection it seems to be open.”

UAE blogger An Emirati's Thoughts calls for action following the “recent slump in the confidence in Dubai's debt management capabilities.”

Yemeni Omar Barsawad shares with us information on the Yemeni capital San'aa. “Be it in Sana'a Old City or the mud bricked houses of Hadhramout, Yemen's architecture remains very much traditional and unique. And is still being preserved in most parts of the country,” he notes.