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April 30th, 2008

Egypt: Facebooking the Struggle

Sami Ben Gharbia · 21:16

After little less than a month following the April 6 strike, during which a number of prominent Egyptian bloggers and internet activists were arrested, preparations for the next round of a planned general strike to mark the 80th birthday of President Mubarak, on May 4, 2008, are currently spreading all over the blogosphere and the Internet. Blogger and activist Nora Younis shares some of her ideas with us about the role of Internet in Egypt as a platform for political activism. 3 comments · »»

Qatar: Online Community Comes to the Aid of Workers

Mohamed Nanabhay · 16:32

lingua → ar

Qatar Living members are rallying to help an offline community of 600 workers who have lost all their belongings after a devastating fire broke out in their labour camp, writes Mohamed Nanabhay, from Doha, Qatar. 0 comments · »»

Rising Voices Seeks Micro-Grant Proposals for Health-Related New Media Outreach

David Sasaki · 15:11

lingua → ru · pt · mk · bn · fr

Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, in collaboration with the Open Society Institute Public Health Program’s Health Media Initiative, is now accepting project proposals for the third round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects focused especially on public health issues involving marginalized populations. 5 comments · »»

Cuba: Las Damas de Blanco

Janine Mendes-Franco · 15:01

lingua → pt · es

It has been the most discussed topic in the Cuban blogosphere over the last week: the arrest of Las Damas de Blanco as they staged a peaceful demonstration for the release of their husbands, jailed by the Castro regime. 1 comment · »»

Kazakhstan: Bloggers Discuss Elites and Economics

Adil Nurmakov · 09:23

lingua → es

Plitical intra-elite battles and anti-corruption crusades both remain hot topics on the agenda of Kazakhstani blogosphere, but speculations over the looming global food crisis and its implications for Central Asia made the bloggers cover this issue in their discussions. Ehot wonders, what will Kazakhstan be looking like if the food ... 0 comments · »»

Links for Roundups

Middle East & North Africa

yawWAR, from Kuwait, (Ar) writes about No Pants Day, being celebrated on May 2. He hopes that day won't find it's way to Kuwait any time soon.

Central Asia & Caucasus , Eastern & Central Europe

Window on Eurasia writes about the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Soviet samizdat publication, the Chronicle of Current Events.

Middle East & North Africa

Why are adult sites popular in the Middle East, asks Bahraini Esra'a, who posts a video opinion from Lebanon.

Eastern & Central Europe

Vilhelm Konnander posts an extensive analysis of the issues surrounding the first anniversary of the Estonian Bronze Soldier crisis.

Eastern & Central Europe

Polandian reports on Prince Charles' visit to Poland.

Eastern & Central Europe

Hungarian Spectrum writes about the new Hungarian cabinet.

Middle East & North Africa

Jordanian Lulu shares one of the stupidest things she has ever uttered in this post. She recalls: ‘Me: “I saw a cool car today.”
Brother (15 at the time):”Really? What model?”
Me: “I am not sure. I think it's a Toyota Ferrari”‘

Middle East & North Africa

Describing a recent sandstorm, Mark from Kuwait writes: “The dust went from maroon to orange to yellow to white and then decided to leave altogether.. Apparently it rained, which in turn brought the dust down.”

Middle East & North Africa

“The Mufti (religious leader) of Mount Lebanon is a foul-mouthed demagogue who needs to be demoted as soon as possible,” writes Beirut Spring from Lebanon.

Middle East & North Africa

With tomorrow bring a holiday - Labour Day - Ola Eliwat, from Jordan, gives us a break down of her day at work today.

Middle East & North Africa

Journalist Jeffrey Black visits Bahrain and notes his observations in this post.

South Asia

Nepali Photo blog PHALANO.com posts pictures of the Holi or Fagu festival, an important festival of the Nepalese people, which is celebrated by smearing Abeer (red vermilion powder) and throwing colour and water-filled balloons at each other.

Americas

Recife is the first city in Brazil and in the world to have a homicide counter installed on the streets. Since January 1st only, there have been 1,511 deaths in the city, 11 of them today. “Now, the public can monitor our blog's data not only on the Internet but also on the streets. Like the site, the outside meter will be updated once a day and give records of daily, monthly and yearly homicides rates”, says PEBodyCount [pt].