Global Voices · Citizen media stories from January 2008

January, 2008

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Stories from January, 2008

30 January 2008

Serbia: Choosing Between Tadic and Nikolic

Written by Sinisa Boljanovic · Eastern & Central Europe

Sinisa Boljanovic translates two Serbian bloggers whose views are representative of those who support Boris Tadic and closer relationship between Serbia and the EU, and are opposed to Tomislav Nikolic's nationalist policy.

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29 January 2008

Bahrain: Are Gulf Arabs Lazy?

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

Earlier this week the Bahraini Labour Minister Majid Al Alawi was interviewed in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, and in the interview he said that the Gulf was facing an 'Asian tsunami' because Gulf nationals are 'lazy' and 'spoilt' and depend on imported labour to do even simple tasks. He said that that the nearly 17 million foreign workers in the Gulf, mostly Asian, represented 'a danger worse than the atomic bomb or an Israeli attack'. What do Bahraini bloggers think?

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Egypt: 40th Cairo International Book Fair

Written by Eman AbdElRahman · Middle East & North Africa

Eman AbdElRahman is in love with January, all the more because a world-class book fair is just outside her doorsteps. In this post, she shares with us the excitement of other Egyptian bloggers with the event, as well as their complaints, and the cultural extravaganza on its sidelines.

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South Asia: Islam and Democracy

Written by Neha Viswanathan · South Asia

Pickled Politics takes a closer look at Islam and Democracy, particularly in South Asia.

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Paraguay: An Introduction to a Growing Blogosphere

Written by Muna Annahas · Latin America

Muna Annahas, a Paraguayan blogger, writes her first Global Voices Online post and provides an introduction to the Paraguayan blogosphere. She provides examples of interesting academic, political, cultural, personal, and bridge blogs written by Paraguayans at home and abroad.

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D.R. of Congo: tough questions abound

Written by Fred · Sub-Saharan Africa

Tough questions abound in the Democratic Republic of Congo as bloggers discuss, among other issues, the recent peace agreement in eastern Congo.

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Serbia: Novak Djokovic Wins Australian Open

Written by Sinisa Boljanovic · Eastern & Central Europe

Novak Djokovic became Serbia's first Grand Slam singles champion, winning the Australian Open on Sunday. According to many people in Serbia, this year's tournament should have been renamed into Serbian Open - because three Serbian players made it into the finals. Sinisa Boljanovic translates a blog post by one happy Serbian fan.

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28 January 2008

Using Web2.0 tools for Environmental Activism

Written by Juliana Rotich · Kenya, D.R. of Congo

To borrow a leaf from the Global voices Sub Saharan Editor's post on cyber-activism in the aftermath of the elections in Kenya; we take a look at how environmental bloggers...

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Lebanon: Demonstrations, Deaths and Specter of Civil War

Written by Moussa Bashir · Middle East & North Africa

Here is a random selection of bloggers’ reflections on yesterday’s incidents which started as demonstrations against electricity shortages and against hikes in prices but ended in riots, shootings and deaths.

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Morocco: The Big Cities

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

Morocco is well-known for lots of things: mint tea, couscous, a film mostly unrelated to the country...And of course, its big cities, several of which were the topic of posts in the blogoma this week, writes Jillian York, who takes us to Fez, Tangier, Marrakesh and Meknes.

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Updates from January, 2008

31 January 2008

Estonia

Itching for Eestimaa reports that the number of Estonia's stateless persons continues to decrease.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Czech Republic

The Czech Daily Word writes on the corruption scandal at the Czech Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Albania

BBC's Mark Mardell interviews “Kosovo’s premier rapper” Genc Prevlaka.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Czech Republic

Dr. Sean's Diary comments on the Czech presidential debate between incumbent Václav Klaus and challenger Jan Švejnar.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Iraq

Iraq Today rounds up today's toll on Iraq in this post.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Iraq

Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar discusses Iraq in the US State of the Union speech. ‘Last year, it was more about “we're loosing, we have to stay and fight”, this year it's “we're winning, we have to stay and fight”,' he writes.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Brazil

The Iranian website Iran Cartoon began a virtual series on world's street children, featuring artists from dozen countries, such as Mongolia, France, Vietnam, Colombia, Brazil, China. Sérgio Coutinho [pt] will feature some of them among the images usually displayed at the right hand corner of his blog”.

• Paula Góes

Mozambique

Moçambique para Todos [pt] picks up on Ivone Soares' piece of news yesterday that a mass kidnapping had happened in Mocímboa da Praia.”It is all very odd and almost like a movie! Will the media report on the press conference? I have read about 10 newspapers today (January 30th) and none of them brought in the case”.

• Paula Góes

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