4 January 2008
Stories from 4 January 2008
Bahrain: The Arabic language - two for the price of one!
Happy New Year from Bahrain! This week we have reflections on the year gone by, and plans for the one to come. A number of bloggers have complaints about the media, a new blogger describes an unusual experiment, and we end with some thoughts on the nature of Arabic.
Morocco: Celebrating the New Year, Part 2
In my last post, I looked at Moroccan bloggers' wishes for 2008. Here is another look at the blogoma's hopes and dreams for the new year.
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Global Voices: A review of 2007, and big plans for 2008
No one could have predicted that a post on Chinese ant farmers would become the most read story on Global Voices in 2007. The top stories on this website were either those where local bloggers became important sources for the international media, or those that mainstream media didn't cover at all. See what next year holds in store for Global Voices...
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Israel: Gilad Shalit for prisoners with blood on their hands
Gilad Shalit is an Israeli soldier who was captured in a cross border raid by Palestinian militants on 25 June 2006, and has been held hostage by the Hamas ever since. There have been numerous diplomatic efforts to negotiate an exchange between Israel and the Hamas: hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for Gilad's release. Following is what bloggers writing in Hebrew have to say about the situation.
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China: Lawyers denied visit to detained blogger Hu Jia
If a blogger you read or maybe have only just heard of disappeared one day, would you blog about it, even if doing so would put you, or at least your blog, at risk? Dozens of police came into human rights blogger Hu Jia's home last week and quietly whisked him away; here are some of the few reactions to that.
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Budding citizen journalists learn about their neighborhoods
Wishing a happy new year to the readers and followers of the Rising Voices. This week we will highlight the updates of the neighborhood diaries project which is growing citizen journalists from underprivileged youths living in Kolkata’s (India) slums.
Next time we will be there again :)