Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 May 21

21 May 2007

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Stories from 21 May 2007

Lebanon: Violent Clashes and an Explosion

Written by Moussa Bashir · Middle East & North Africa

The clashes between the Lebanese army and the organization of Fatah al Islam, as well as the explosion in Ashrafieh (Beirut), took precedence over all other news and blog posts in almost all of the blogs during the past two days, reports our Beirut author Moussa Bashir. Read the full article to digest the size of calamities in Lebanon in the eyes of its bloggers.

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Colombia: The First Blogger Meetup in Medellín Results in Mixed Reviews.

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

Bloggers in Medellín Colombia comment on Medallo Bloguero, the first Blogger round table- meetup which took place on May 16th during National Internet Week.

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Arabeyes: The Middle East in Pictures

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Today's Middle East in Pictures tour takes us to Dubai's lovely beaches, Doha at night, a picture of a flower in Bahrain, the blooming flower gardens of Syria this spring and finally on a Viagra buying spree in the bazaars of Fez, in Morocco.

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Morocco: The Week of Firsts

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa

It was a week of firsts in Morocco - with the first French Minister of Moroccan descent, the first newspaper and the first wine store. Jillian York has more in this report.

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China: history of Chinese characters

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

Granite Studio blogs on a recent discovery in the study of Damaidi carvings, which carry symbols that resemble early Chinese writing. If the researchers are correct, then these pictographs would...

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Bukavu on the Congolese-Rwandan border: A city at the crossroads of conflict

Written by Jennifer Brea · Sub-Saharan Africa

Kakaluigi, a foreign missionary who has lived in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for 35 years describes a feeling of apprehension about the future...

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Touring Libyan Blogs: Bloggers meet, traffic chaos, activism, corporal punishment at schools and more

Written by Fozia Mohamed · Middle East & North Africa

The Libyan blogosphere is getting stronger - and bolder - with more bloggers putting a face to their names online. Fozia Mohamed sheds light on the phenomena and updates us about the dangers of driving in Libya, the 'shameful' public services and the antics of the Falga.

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More than 140 dead in “peaceful Philippine elections”

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

Last week, millions of Filipinos voted to elect new members of Parliament and local government officials. The police and election officials claim the recent elections were peaceful despite more than 140 election-related killings were tallied.

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Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome

Written by Salam Adil · Middle East & North Africa

This week blogs have covered a steadily deteriorating situation in Iraq. Things are not so much going from bad to worse, but from worse to appalingly worse. Also read about a visit to the Iraqi ID office and one blogger gets to answer readers' questions in this extensive Iraqi blog review by Salam Adil.

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France's New “Ministry of Nationalism and Expulsion”

Written by Jennifer Brea · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

Francophone blogger Et Si Nous Parlions has no love for French president Nicolas Sarkozy's new Ministry of Immigration, Integration, National Identity, and Co-Development. He prefers to call it the “Ministry...

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Updates from 21 May 2007

Ukraine

Belatedly, a link to J. Otto Pohl's post on the deportation of the Crimean Tatars on May 18, 1944: “The NKVD and NKGB took the unsuspecting Crimean Tatars to rail stations and stuffed them into train wagons designed for the transport of freight and live stock. The Soviet security organs worked extremely fast. Already by 8 pm on 18 May 1944 they reported loading 90,000 Crimean Tatars into 25 train echelons. The first 17 of these echelons had already left on their way to Uzbekistan with 48,400 deportees.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Moscow-based Darkness at Noon writes about foreigner detection skills: “In a country that was trained for 70 years to view foreigners with skepticism, it's no wonder they're good at rooting us out.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

A Step At A Time links to a Zarema Mukusheva’s Crying Sun: The Impact of War in the Mountains of Chechnya documentary on Google Video.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Poland

“Strolling through the Saski Park in Warsaw this morning, by pure accident, I came across wonderful open air photo exhibition on Polish Roma,” writes Olia Yatskevich of TOL's Romantic and posts some photos.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Iran

According to[Fa] Kanoune Zanan,Iranian police continues its crackdown on women’s dress and there is a new victim.A young woman was beaten by police in Tehran. A citizen could take a few photos of her.People could make her got rid of the security forces who wanted to force her in their car.

• Fred Petrossian

Bulgaria

Dr Sean's Diary reports on the results of the European Parliament elections in Bulgaria.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia: The RuNet's Top 10 Political Slang Words

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