Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 September 02

2 September 2007

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Stories from 2 September 2007

Syria: History, Culture and Identity

Written by Yazan Badran · Middle East & North Africa

In our roundup this week, we will overlook politics again to talk more about the people. Abu Fares in this sensational post, laments the simplicity of the old Levantine-Mediterranean lifestyle....

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Kuwait: Is Summer Over?

Written by Abdullatif AlOmar · Middle East & North Africa

Summer seems to be over in Kuwait as the country's blogosphere gets out of its slump. This week our bloggers discuss another ban in the country, buying illegal DVDs, a new magazine for Filipinos in Kuwait and a fun day out at .. a shooting range.

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Korea: Is being good-looking a privilege?

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

‘Eol-jjang' is one of the modern internet terms in Korea that was made in 2003 and indicates ‘best face' (eol: eol-gul à face + jjang à top, best). It refers...

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Iran: Green bloggers protest natural disaster

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Several environmental bloggers and activists participated in a demonstration on August 27th, against the death of more than 2000 flamingo birds in Lake Bakhtegan in Iran. They protested against the...

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China: Charity pulled for thankless poor students

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

A lot of embarrassed discussion has come out of the scandal this past week which many are calling CharityGate (慈善门), when five of the nineteen lower-income university students sponsored by...

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Updates from 2 September 2007

Brazil

Off The Broiler writes on the 15th Annual Brazilian Independence Day festival, which is happening in New Jersey until September 3. “Last year I was yelled at for not giving anyone advance notice about one of the best Jersey food and cultural events of the year”.

• Paula Góes

Brazil

The second one of a ten part series of videos “Around Brazil” is available online. In a 45 minute programme, it aims “to show that although Sao Paulo is one of the largest cities in the world, it has a culture and diversity that is absolutely unique.” The videos are presented in English.

• Paula Góes

Egypt

Egyptian blogger and journalist Abdel Monem Mahmoud, who has been released in June 2007 after 46 days imprisonment in Southern Cairo Torah prison, is “facing detention threats [again]. Both as part of the State’s clensing of political activists from the Egyptian scene and also for reporting on torture,” Nora Younis wrote. (…more on Global Voices Advocacy)